'Pro tempore/Floating World'

............is an ongoing series of large paintings about capturing a moment in time.

They reach at and endeavor to grasp the transient, the intangible, the allure of the illusive. The moon in a cup of water.

RP, December 30,2006

"Romantic Art.......is a result of a vision that can see in things something significant beyond ordinary significance: something that for a moment seems to contain the whole world......."
John Piper, 'Aspects of British Art', Collins 1947