THE NORTH SEA PAINTINGS, based on an imagined or memorable reality embrace the abstract sublime in this collection of dark sea paintings. Influenced by Casper David Friedrich and Anselm Kiefer. The immensity of the universe and man’s isolation and feelings of insignificance in a vast cosmos resound. In “The Distances” a strange quiet reigns over the vast expanses. In ”Kiefer Sea” the abstract sublime is expressed in fullness rather than emptiness. The expanse is conceived as somber yet animated.