paintings & mixed media
Orientation series ongoing, mineral pigments, graphite and oil on canvas, 10”x 13” approx., 2025
Sacred Circle series, mineral pigments, oil, charcoal, graphite on board, (circle) 20”x20”x1”, 2024
Sacred Circle series, 2023, 8”x8”x1”, mineral pigments with oil on board, 2023
Sacred Marriage, mineral pigments, oil, canvas, paper, 36” x 48”, 2023 (and detail)
“the soul purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” Carl Jung, M.D.R. , mineral pigments and oil on canvas, 30”x37”, 2023
Initiation as Invitation, mixed media, paint, Japanese paper, ochre pigment,
18”x24”, 2019
“Give me your tired….”, 2020, mixed media, found paper, paint and ink on board, 12”x36”
holy language, 2020, mixed media, found paper, charcoal, graphite, ink on board, 12”x36”
Palimpsest…for Thoreau, 2020, mixed media, paper, graphite, paint on board, 12”x16”
The Black Sun, 2019, mixed media, ochre pigment, charcoal, paint on board, 12”x16”
Life if lived with devotion, 2019, mixed media, paint, ink, graphite on board, 12”x36”
Squaring the Circle, 2018, mixed media, paper, ink and paint on board, 18”x24”
Quaternity / Providence
Alchemy attempts to deal with the complexities of change, the transformation from one state or form to another; from a habituated way of being in the world to an evolving state of consciousness and understanding. A mainstay of alchemical thinking is a commitment to wholeness. It’s origins developed with a respect and concern for the sacred. This way of thinking requires one to be open to other dimensions of existence, becoming an experience of the numinosum. "Providence", was an alchemical transformation. One deeply embedded in psyche (and dream) and in the materiality of the resulting painting.
Providence, 2020, mixed media, paint on paper and board, 18”x24”
Leaves as Words
On July 1st, 2020 I began the practice of writing a haiku a day for thirty days. Haiku is a practice of using three linked and interactive verses to create archetypal images. Archetypes are inherited patterns in the unconscious. Along with the haiku I created these mixed media pieces, each panel divided into three parts, much like how we have come to know a traditional haiku verse. Combining visual and verbal images is called Haiga, where the experience of the two is distinct from either element taken by itself. C.G. Jung referred to this function of the psyche as bringing together the conscious and the unconscious; in the tension created, a third thing is formed. Jung called this the transcendent function.(to read expanded text, https://www.debragoldmanstudio.com/writings Leaves as Words, see link )
7/6/20Bridging the two worldssuspending the grief of loss,Impeded streams sing.7/9/20Evening rain on rooftop,Cries of a birthing mother wake,new life, sweet hope.
7/29/20A confronting truth,white wing tips and outstretched neck,reclaiming the Self.