Storms

"Power Imbalance"

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2014
Acrylic on Canvas
16 x 20 in.

Juror Award, 2016, Regional Fine Arts Competition, Carnegie Center for the Arts; Three Rivers, Michigan

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art, painting, acrylic, water, waves, sea, seascape, ocean, lake

"Rolling In"

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2012
Acrylic on Hardboard
5 x 7 in.

Private Collection: Beverly Hills, Michigan

art, painting, beach, sand, shore, landscape, lake, seascape

"Running"

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2010
Acrylic on Canvas
18 x 24 in.

art, painting, water, lake, storm, sea, rain, sailboat

"The End of June"

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2010
Watercolor and Drybrush on Paper (Arches 300 lb. Cold Pressed)
12 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.

art, painting, water, lake, storm, waves, rain, sea

Study for the painting “Running“

"Offshore Lightning"

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2010
Charcoal and White Conté on Toned Paper
9 x 12 in.

art, painting, water, lake, waves, rain, storm, lightning

Study for the painting “Running“

"Breaking"

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2010
Acrylic on Paper Mounted on Hardboard
12 x 9 in.

art, painting, clouds, sky, storm

"Rain Storm Off South Haven"

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2010
Acrylic on Canvas
5 x 7 in.

art, painting, lake michigan, shore, water, waves, surf, dusk, sunset

"Approaching Storm (A Landscape Study)"

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2009
Acrylic on Canvas
7 x 9 in.

Private Collection: Ceresco, Michigan

art, painting, rain, clouds, distant hills, grass, grassy field

"The Haven (In Memory of Martin Maddox, 1954-1997)"

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1998
Acrylic on Panel
24 x 36 in.
Collection of the South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana

award, art, painting, tornadoes, field, storms, fence, house, wind, mortality, death, remembrance, memory, museum, collection

2nd Place Award, 1998, 19th Michigan Artist’s Competition, Art Center of Battle Creek; Battle Creek, Michigan

“Particularly impressive is ‘The Haven’, a piece that employs the most severe of Midwestern weather phenomena as allegory. The piece was painted in response to the passing of Spyker’s friend and mentor, Martin Maddox. It shows a simple farmhouse, windows lit but shades drawn. Its white clapboard seem to glow in the dark scenery, and it’s anchored in a field with grass that swirls like waves beneath a boiling, menacing sky that is spouting twin tornadoes. It’s hard to decide whether the occupants of the house are truly in a state of guarded safety or if the shades are drawn in a state of obliviousness to the impending danger, an uncertainty that adds an extra air of mystery and edginess to a compelling painting.”– Amy Sult, from “Regional flavor prevails in Carnegie Center competition”,
published on Sunday, April 12, 1998 in theÂ Kalamazoo Gazette

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Martin Maddox Website

"Heartland (Prospecting for Gold)"

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2000
Acrylic on Canvas
32 x 48 in.
Corporate Collection: Pfizer

award, art, painting, canoes, boats, wheat, field, storms, rain, lightning, telescope, landscape, figures, man, standing

Pharmacia Corporation Purchase Award, 2000, Michigan Artist’s Competition, Art Center of Battle Creek;
Battle Creek, Michigan

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"The Return"

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2000
Acrylic on Hardboard
7 x 10 in.

Collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan

art, painting, boats, rowboat, rain, storm, dock, shore, beach, woman, figures, water, island, museum, collection

Companion painting to “The Retreat“, 2000, Acrylics on Hardboard, 7 x 10 in., Private Collection: Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind.”-The Lay of the Last MinstrelSir Walter Scott (1771-1832)