Stone Pigment Paintings
These paintings were created using natural stone pigments using ochres I collected myself. Please see “Making Art Like a Cave Woman”.
"A Hero for All Times" 2024, 18x24 stone pigment and charcoal on canvas Here's the Venus of Willendorf in the superhero landing pose--because I'm sure that she would've if she had known about it
"Adornment" 2024 24x30 stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas humans have been adorning themselves for as long as we've been humans--probably before then. Chunks of ochre believed to be used for body paint 100.000 years ago have been found in Blombos Cave, South Africa.
"Mirrors" 2024, 16x20, stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas This is one of those rare paintings where the Muse reached down to me and gave me the entire painting as one. It just flowed out and was what it needed to be.
Bulls of the Sun 30x30" stone pigments and charcoal with French ochre on canvas. These bulls draw on the art of ancient Crete and the islands of the Dodecanese, where both bulls and the sun were worshipped. 2024
Desert Dogs 30x30" stone pigments, charcoal, French ochre and malachite with fiber paste on canvas. This piece refers to the elongated dogs of the Egyptian tradition. 2024
Woman Be Wise 9x12" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board Based on the Willendorf figuring from 25-30,000 years ago, this image imagines how the Woman feels inside
Whistlejacket 20x20" stone pigment and fiber paste on board. Based on George Stubbs's famous portrait of the Thoroughbred racehorse Whistlejacket.
Rising and Becoming 16x20" earth pigments, malachite and lapis lazuli dust, fiber paste on canvas 2025 This is about the joy and power of bringing life into the world
Forging Forward 9x12" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board
Raging Bull 20x20" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas (SOLD)
"Half Shell" 2024, 18x24 stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas. Usually I use a water base, but here I used linseed oil, which gives the pigments a real richness.
Cresting Wave 16x20 lapis lazuli, malachite, stone pigment, charcoal, glass beads and fiber paste on canvas 2025
Tactile Lions 5x7" earth pigments, lapis lazuli, malachite, sawdust, fur, stone chips The mixture of materials gives this piece and incredible vibrancy
Yes? 30x30" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas The wisent, or European wood bison, still exists, and is being reintroduced to the wild. This female still would like to be left alone.
Two Lions 24x24" The cave lion, panthera spelaea, was larger than modern lions, and males had very little mane (though how paleotologists determine this from the fossil record I don't know)
Ratty 8x10" earth pigments, charcoal, shell, lichen, stone chips, straw, bark and stick on wooden cradle. Ratty is investigating the world with enormous charm and energy
Heading Upstream 8x10" earth pigments, lapis lazuli and malachite powders, glass beads and fiber paste on wooden cradle. This was so much fun to paint!! it really feels like it's surging up the wall. 2025
Wisent Bull 8x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board
Spring Bear 18x24"" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas. Cave bears were generally more massive, but this one has just emerged from hibernation, and is in search of food to make up for lost fat.
Leaping Bull 10x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board Sometimes a bull has to jump for joy
Morning Bugle 12x24"" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas This elk is more related to the North American Cervalces Scotti than the Irish Elk that would have been found in Europe during the Pleistocene. However, it is similar in appearance to the cervids depicted in Lascaux.
Rainbow Herd 14x18"" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas. Each horse is painted using a different color of ochre, to demonstrate the range found in the color bands at one of my collection sites. The black pony is painted using charcoal.
Roger Rhino 9x12" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board I'm sure that some of the artists of the Pleistocene had a sense of humor
Golden Horse 8x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board This ancestor of the Przewalski's horse is doing a capriole 2023
Three Aurochs 14x18" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board The aurochs featured prominently on cave paintings of western Europe.
"Fighting Ibex" 16x20" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas
Cave Bear (sold) 8x10 stone pigment on paper
Enough 12x16" stone pigment and fiber paste on board Even a pushy auroch bull backs off from the Woman of Willendorf
Natufian Head 10x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas The Natufian civilization of the Paleolithic Levant was utterly fascinating and you should look it up. I created this head in bas relief to emphasize its emotion
"Pigs Flew Then, Too" 11x14" stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas
"Leaping Bull" 11x14" stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on board. For this piece, as with the Natufian Head, I built up the forms with the fiber paste to create a bas relief, which the Paleolithic artists did, both with clay and the stone of the cave walls.
"Wisent" 12x16" stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas. The bison on the cave walls look odd to a modern viewer, because we are used to North American bison. The cave painters, however, would have known the European bison, or "wisent," which looks exactly like their paintings.
Shaman 2024 10x10 stone pigment, charcoal and fiber paste on canvas This is a North American bison, rather than the European wisent, so a bit of an anachronism for me, but I couldn't resist his hairy legs.
"Minotaur" 8x10, stone pigment, charcoal and fiber paste on canvas board. This bull is based on the frescoes at Crete, as well as cave paintings of aurochs
Running Herd (SOLD) 8x11" Stone pigment on canvas (sold)
Dancing Herd (SOLD) 20x30" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas
Musk Ox (SOLD) 8x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board Massive, but dancing!
"Bison , Walking" 8x24" SOLD stone pigments and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas
Frosty Morning (SOLD) 8x24"" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas Kicking up snow and blowing out their breath on a cold day, these three young females are feeling frisky
Reclining Goddess 8x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas (SOLD) Based on the Woman of Willendorf (25-30,000YO, German), this image imagines the Woman relaxing after a long day posing for the sculptor.
Running Trio Stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board 10x10"
Three Bulls 8x10 stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board (SOLD)
Kate Mam-moss 16x20" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas This mammoth is convinced of her beauty, quite rightly