Dinah Abbott | self-taught artist

16″ x 20″ – Acrylics [2009]

The movie “Deliver Us From Evil” prompted the painting below.  It is a painting of Pope Benedict protecting Father Oliver O’Grady (self-proclaimed pedophile and rapist of many children) in the papal grotto in Vatican City.

The Evil That Men Do

16″ x 20″  – Acrylics [2009]

Several years ago in the mountains of Ben Lomond, I had a remarkable encounter with a beautiful lizard.  It had a bright blue tail and an orange face and it came up the mountain to stare at me.  It scrunched through the fallen leaves, making quite a racket with each footstep,  and came quite close to me.  It just stared into my eyes for a very long time.  Then it scrunched, scrunched, scrunched away again.  It felt like a magical moment and a blessing at the time.

Lizard Magic

11″ x 14″  – Acrylics  [2009]

She was 19 and abortion was illegal.  She didn’t know what she was about to endure.  She had her hair done as though she was going to a party.

She Had Her Hair Done

36” x 24” – Acrylics   [2008]
“Deal Island” is a rendering of the island in the Chesapeake Bay, where I once lived.

Deal Island