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Category: Oil Painting

Staying Conscious

Posted on July 14, 2019March 6, 2025 by Ken O'Toole

I am thankful for all the words of encouragement over the years which helped to keep me awake, aware, alive to the possibilities. In a world where anything can happen, it does. I’m just thrilled to get to participate. For that, I intend to stay conscious. In March of 2019 I painted the first of […]

Posted in Abstract Figure, Abstract Replacement, Action Redaction, Oil Painting, Painting

Visions #5

Posted on May 25, 2019March 6, 2025 by Ken O'Toole

Visions # 5 is the fifth large oil painting I have finished since my wife’s surgery. It may be evident by now, even to the casual viewer, that my thoughts have been occupied by the topics of life, death, and what comes after. Although this painting was started with large expressive gestures in black paint […]

Posted in Abstract Expression, Abstract Figure, Action Redaction, Oil Painting, Painting

Quiet Desperation

Posted on April 14, 2019June 21, 2019 by Ken O'Toole

Oils on Canvas. 48″h x 60″w Quiet desperation is another of the new large paintings with what seems like a whole novel full of characters inhabiting it. All are just slightly out of focus. Still, as if from a bizarre mixed up dream cast, dozens of odd visages emerge under various lighting to tip their […]

Posted in Abstract Expression, Action Redaction, Oil Painting, Painting

Until Tomorrow

Posted on March 1, 2017November 9, 2017 by Ken O'Toole

The setting of the sun is metaphorically the dying of the light. Yet, even as it takes its leave each day, it bows in a promise of its return. This is not the end. There will be another day, another chance to walk in its light.   Recently as I pondered the departure of a […]

Posted in Abstract Impressionism, Oil Painting, Painting, Works On Paper

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