A sampling of portraits, The Effects of Pesticides and Nanoplastics on Garden Gnomes. Some gnomes are intrinsically more insect-like and reptilian than others, being as they are all creatures of the warm dark earth. They have their trials and gloomy times in the garden. Pesticides and nanoplastics affect us all; they affect the nervous system, the endocrine system, the microbiome in our guts and they are everywhere, especially the nanoplastics, even in our brain tissue. They are something aren’t they, tricky little bits, like viruses and possibly new evolutionary selection factors moving forward.

paintings, acrylic on canvas, (12 inches by 12 inches)