Maps

Apenas uma beterraba

Apenas uma beterraba by Daniel Liam Gill

Acrylic and Oil on Hard­board I met a young woman called Angela Avo­cado and asked her to work with me on the Maps project. In the inter­view she told me that she liked beets and avo­ca­dos so we used that as our jump­ing off point. I printed her back for the beet and her front for the avocado.…

Papain

Papain, Acrylic and oil on Hardboard, 24" x 48"

Acrylic and Oil on Hard­board From a mono­print with Zayda. She said she liked papaya so I took her lit­er­ally. This is pre­sen­ta­tional of my illus­tra­tion work, very car­toony in some respects. The yel­low glow around the edges reminds me of a Lady Guadalupe I saw painted on a Mex­i­can bus. Papain is a protein-​digesting enzyme obtained from unripe papaya fruit, used…

Dana’s Mandala — Vishnu

Dana's Mandala - Vishnu, Acrylic and Oil on Hardboard, 24" x 24"in two pieces

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board I remem­ber this from Joseph Camp­bell, “Brahma sits on a lotus, the sym­bol of divine energy and divine grace. The lotus grows from the navel of Vishnu, who is the sleep­ing god, whose dream is the uni­verse.” When I started this with Dana, I had no idea where it was going,…

Selu

Selu, Monoprint, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard. 48" x 24"

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board Many years ago a good friend of mine asked me to do a mural for her new baby. We based the works on cre­ation myths from dif­fer­ent cul­tures. One wall had Gabriel touch­ing the baby, allow­ing it to for­get it’s past and start anew. The sec­ond was the Egypt­ian Goddess…

Três Azeitonas

Glass Olive, Monoprint, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board A trip­tych series of mono­prints fea­tur­ing Glass Olive, one of my favorite peo­ple to work with. These were printed last year as part of the same ses­sion that yielded Quid­dity and Choron­zon. All three are 13″ x 24″ on Hard­board. Click on the thumb­nail to view the larger image.

Kensho

Kensho, Monoprint, Acrylic and Oil on Hardboard

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board I’ve been lis­ten­ing to “A New Earth” by Eck­hart Tolle while I paint. In one pas­sage, he uses the term Satori, a Japan­ese Bud­dhist term for enlight­en­ment, mean­ing “under­stand­ing”. I thought it the per­fect title for the paint­ing. In research­ing the mean­ing, I came across Ken­sho, in the Zen Bud­dhist tra­di­tion, satori…

Cephalopoda

Cephalopoda, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board From a mono­print ses­sion with Lilith Marie. Some images are murky and require a lot of star­ing and study be be real­ized. That’s not the case with this work. Lilith men­tioned that she was fond of Cephalopods while we were mak­ing her man­dala. I had only to block in the background…

Lilith Marie’s Mandala

Lilith Marie's Mandala, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board The final paint­ing of Lilith Marie’s Man­dala. A break­through piece for me, it’s my first fin­ished paint­ing after a long hia­tus and los­ing my muse. It’s been very cathar­tic for me, not only for heal­ing my heart but for solid­i­fy­ing my ideas about the Objec­tify series. I had some­one ask me why I call…

Mandala — 5th Session

Mandala by Daniel Liam Gill, 48" x 48"

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hard­board I had a break­through on this ses­sion, I kept star­ing at the ver­ti­cal and hor­i­zon­tal shapes nade by Lilith Marie’s won­der­ful back. I had no idea how to tie them all together and get them to relate. Then I remem­bered that Lilith likes cephalopods. I started play­ing with the space in the lower…

Mandala — 4th Session

Mandala by Daniel Liam Gill

Man­dala by Daniel Liam Gill, Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hardboard