“Terms of Surrender” 9 x 12” Oil on Panel

The imagery inside this tipi narrative are inspired by images drawn by a Cheyenne named Making Medicine.  It is showing a meeting between Native American Indians and U. S. Calvary.  Making Medicine created a book of sketches at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, ca. 1875 – 1878.

It is a painting about the end of a way of life… the surrender of this life as well as how it was lived.

This is a strong painting, small in size but big in content.  It is my goal as an artist to do more than merely create an image.  I am striving to make a statement that nobody else is making, in my unique way.  When my time on this earth is over, I pray I leave a body of work which is like none before me… and in the world of art, that is hard!  There are plenty of landscapes and still life paintings on this planet;  I am hoping my legacy will tell a historical tale and leave a social commentary of life on this earth.