In-Sana Tea: Mandela Blend with hint of Gladiolus Blossom
This 40″ x 30″ oil painting was awarded 1st Place in the Chagrin Falls Valley Art Center 53rd juried art exhibition (2024).
It was the first of David Heatwole’s In-Sana Tea series of surreal/symbolic paintings.
Chasing the dove through the planes
This is one of Heatwole’s many impressionistic/abstract paintings from his “Shifting Planes Series”. This one has an important back story and was the last painting the artist created before his move from West Virginia to Ohio.
Mountain Lake of Shifting Planes
30″h x 40″ This acrylic painting is part of Heatwole’s “Shifting Planes Series”
Dreaming of What Will Come
This acrylic on canvas painting is a bridge between Heatwole’s realistic/surrealistic paintings and his abstract/impressionistic paintings from the “Shifting Planes Series” and is the first painting created in his new home in Berea, Ohio.
Box of Life’s Energies
This 24″ x 36″ oil creation is one of David Heatwole’s paintings from the “Box Anonymous Series”
Reflecting on Perceptions
This 30″ x 40″ acrylic painting has made it into Heatwole’s This Artists Dream brand of clothing and products.
This Artist’s Dream
This painting is the first to show the flying “Dream Thought” which is part of the logo of his brand This Artists Dream.
For Thou Art The True Nourishment
This was an important oil painting in Heatwole’s art career. It shows influence by his friend Yuriy Karabash a Moldovan immigrant living and working in Pennsylvania when Heatwole discovered the artist and his work. This piece was a modern day interpretation of the famous photograph titled “Grace” by Eric Enstrom. This artwork was autobiographical in nature and shows behind the character a closed up umbrella hanging on the wall, which was symbolic for Heatwole’s community collaboration titled “The Umbrella Offering” from 1996. Many years later there was a second version of this painting commissioned of the artist by owners of Queen Street Gallery in Martinsburg, WV.
A Holy Note Cometh
Inspired by the shadows of telephone or power lines on the roads Heatwole created a few works of art that show a musical note bouncing down the road or from rock to rock across bodies of water. This was the largest and most complete painting of the subject matter to date.
Divine Alterations
Heatwole says this painting commemorates the small miracle of the date that he was baptized and chrismated into the Orthodox Church the same day his future wife entered the Orthodox Church but 367 miles, nearly 6 hours away, and not orchestrated by the couple or their priests. The dove in this piece, and in all of Heatwole’s paintings, represents the Holy Spirit. The interesting thing about the dove is that years later when the artist moved his family to Ohio to be closer to his aging inlaws he made an unusual discovery which he reveals in Book 1 of his memoir “Transcending Coincidence.”
11/10/2024