Russell Steven Powell

Underwater Lair, oil on canvas, 20×16

Lair, oil on canvas, 14×11

I STRUGGLE TO STAY AFLOAT upon a vast sea of green; the May tide keeps rising, testing my equilibrium with successive swells of lilac, viburnum, rhododendron. I  tread grass and leaf continuously, even in my dreams, until once more I am beached on the Provincetown dunes.

Before I washed up there earlier this month, I completed a number of paintings. Before I return in June, I jettison several of them here in hopes of a safe passage.

Stride, oil on canvas, 16×20

Night Garden, oil on canvas, 11×14

Storm, oil on canvas, 18×24

Landscape, oil on canvas, 16×20

White Trees, oil on canvas, 11×14