Abstracts
"There is a stimulating effect when we ask questions, when curiosity ignites our imagination and when we challenge the self-imposed boundaries that contain and limit our potential. I am curious, vulnerable and full of self doubt, I am constantly challenged to search beyond what is safe. I am excited by what may lay beyond my insecurities and like all artists, I try to make art that is personal and honest. What you see is only my struggle toward those goals... In the end I am only what I allowed myself to be."- Artist Dan MacCaw
"Art is the objectification of feelings."- Suzanne Langer, aesthetician and educator
"The best expression of art is when we live in balance. You will see harmony and movement in my paintings. This cohesiveness propels us forwards and provides a way for us to build a better place to live for generations to come"- Juan C Cervantes
"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace." Mahatma Gandhi
This series of work is about war and the ravages of war in Ethiopia, Sept 1974-June 1991- with mans hope for peace
"Child Victims"- Acrylic on Canvas- 30" x 40"
"In Hope For Peace II"-Acrylic on Canvas- 18" x 24"
"Execution of Sixty Dignitaries"- 24" x 30"- Acrylic on Canvas
"Explosion IV"- Acrylic on Canvas
"Explosion V" Acrylic on Canvas-
"Child Suicide Bomber"- 34" x 48"- Acrylic on Canvas
"Mothers and Children"- Acrylic on Canvas- 18" x 24"- Available through the Skoto Gallery of Art in New York
"The Woman and the Sun"- Acrylic on Canvas- 30" x 40"
"The Drought II"- Oil on Canvas- 16" x 20"
"No More War"- Acrylic on Canvas-30" x 40"
Explosion II- Acrylic on Canvas- 27" x 37"
"Our Home Stood Here"- 30" x 22"- Oil on Card
"Harvest"- Acrylic on Canvas-- 16" x 20"
"For Peace"- Acrylic on Canvas- 18" x 27"
" The Agony of War"- 24" x 32"- Assemblage on Plywood
" The Fury of War"- Acrylic on Card- 20" x 40"
"Dream Design"- Acrylic on Canvas- 16" x 20"
"Mechanics"- Acrylic on Canvas- 18" x 24"
" Tea Leaf Pickers in Sri- Lanka"- Oil on Canvas-18" x24"
" In Hope for Peace"- Acrylic on Canvas- 16" x 21"
"Refugees"- Mixed Media on Canvas- 18" x 24"
"Dawn"- Acrylic on Canvas- 16" x 20"
"The Wave"- Mixed Media on Canvas-16" x 20"
"Pollution II-Mixed Media on Canvas- 16" x 21"
"Pollution"- Mixed Media on Canvas- 30" x 72"
"The Road- Blood, Sweat and Tears"- 20" x 30"- This is the road that refugees take from their own country- Mixed media on Canvas
"What will it Be"- Acrylic on Canvas- 20" x 28"
" Women and Children" - Acrylic on Canvas- 24" x 30"
" Explosion VII"- 60" x 40"- Acrylic on Canvas
"Explosion I"- Acrylic on Canvas- 34" x 46"
" Peace"- Acrylic on Canvas- 24" x30"
" Fertility"- Acrylic on Canvas- 16" x 20"
"Generosity"-Oil on Canvas-16" x 20"*sold in Stokholm, Sweden
In the collection of Jan Soderberg
"I am the Enemy you killed, my Friend"- 33" x 66"- Acrylic on Canvas-Available through The Skoto Gallery of Art in New York
Line from war poem called "Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen-(1893-1918) Wilfred Owen wrote this poem about a man who had been killed- he walks along a 'dull tunnel') he has died and meets a German soldier who he killed earlier before being killed himself. It ends with 'let us sleep now', meaning 'let us live in peace.'
" A Moment of Peace"- Acrylic on Canvas- 30" x 33"
" A Moment of Peace"- Acrylic on Canvas- 30" x 33"
"Drought Victims"- Oil on Canvas- 25" x 40"
" Drought Victims"- Oil onCanvas- 25" x 40"
"I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for." -Georgia O' Keefe
"Art is the imposing of pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."- Alfred Whithead."
"Curiosity illuminates ideas that the imagination can play with." Artist Dan McCaw
