Acrylic

"Someday"

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2005
Acrylic on Hardboard
3 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.
Private Collection: Kalamazoo, Michigan

, art, painting, landscape, water, dusk, twilight

"Verge"

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2005
Acrylic on Panel
5 7/8 x 14 in.

, art, painting, mist, fog, trees, monk, robed, solitary, solitude

"Private Isle"

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2004
Acrylic on Hardboard
3 x 3 in.
Private Collection: Unknown Collector

, art, painting, islands, water, ring, trees, landscape

"Relocation"

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2004
Acrylic on Canvas
5 x 7 in.

, art, painting, flying, houses, landscape, storms, tornadoes

"Room to Breathe"

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2004
Acrylic on Canvas
5 x 7 in.

, art, painting, clouds, islands, water, seascapes, solitary figure, solitude, alone

"Stone and Sea"

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2003
Acrylic on Hardboard
6 x 4 in.
Private Collection: South Bend, Indiana

, art, painting, stone, rock, sea, water, floating, hovering, seascapes

"Conspirators"

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2002
Acrylic on Hardboard
9 x 10 in.

, art, painting, monks, robed figures, beach, shore, water, fire, night

"In Transition"

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2001 – 2002
Acrylic on Paper Mounted on Hardboard
12 x 9 in.

art, painting, portrait, man, old, head, beard, mortality, death, ageing

Click for this painting’s graphite pre-study.

"A Natural Selection"

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2002
Acrylic on Canvas
14 x 11 in.
Collection of the Artist

art, painting, apples, insects, dragonfly, ladybugs, bees, branch, sky, clouds, still life, genetics, man’s impact on nature

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"Three Islands"

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2002
Acrylic on Hardboard
3 11/16 x 13 in.
Private Collection: Gobles, Michigan

, art, painting, islands, solitary figures, solitude, alone, trees, boats, rowboats, water

"The Voyage"

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2002
Acrylic on Hardboard
7 1/2 x 10 in.
Private Collection: Saugatuck, Michigan

, art, painting, ships, boats, sails, tallship, rain, storms, seascapes, water, lightning

"Watchers"

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2002
Acrylic on Panel
5 7/8 x 14 in.

art, painting, winter, snow, storm, monks, robed

"Adrift"

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2001
Acrylic on Canvas
14 x 24 in.
Private Collection: Saugatuck, Michigan

art, painting, houses, water, rain, storms, seascape, mortality, power of nature, man in nature’s thrall

“‘Adrift’, for instance, depicts a house at the mercy of a sea squall, and the building somehow appears more vulnerable to ruin than a human victim might. ‘ A person has the power to swim’, the artist reflects. ‘It’s not usual to see a house floating in the water. You wonder, how’d it get out there? I like to take a structure out of context, to put it where it doesn’t belong.’ This incongruity prompts the viewer to consider what the house might represent: A person? An idea or belief? A community? All life on Earth (think of Noah’s Ark)? Spyker prefers to leave that question open.”

– Julie York Coppens, from “What Dreams May Come”,
a review of the artist’s solo show
at the South Bend Museum of Art, published on Sunday,
December 21, 2003 in the South Bend Tribune