Seascapes, Lakescapes, and Water

"Trout Run Rock Fall"

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2010
Watercolor and Drybrush on Paper (Lanaquarelle 140 lb. Cold Pressed)
12 x 12 in.

art, painting, waterfall, river, stream, brook, creek, rocks

"Running"

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2010
Acrylic on Canvas
18 x 24 in.

art, painting, water, lake, storm, sea, rain, sailboat

"The End of June"

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2010
Watercolor and Drybrush on Paper (Arches 300 lb. Cold Pressed)
12 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.

art, painting, water, lake, storm, waves, rain, sea

Study for the painting “Running“

"Inland"

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2010
Acrylic on Hardboard
8 x 13 in.

art, painting, clouds, water, lake, wave, after storm

"Offshore Lightning"

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2010
Charcoal and White Conté on Toned Paper
9 x 12 in.

art, painting, water, lake, waves, rain, storm, lightning

Study for the painting “Running“

"Lines"

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2009
Acrylic on Hardboard
5 x 7 in.

art, painting, water, waves, sea, lake

"Waterfall Study (Niagara From Below)"

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2009
Acrylic on Canvas
10 x 8 in.

art, painting, waterfall

"Rain Storm Off South Haven"

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2010
Acrylic on Canvas
5 x 7 in.

art, painting, lake michigan, shore, water, waves, surf, dusk, sunset

"Niagara From Below"

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2008
Charcoal on Paper
11 1/4 x 9 in.
Collection of the Artist

art, drawing, waterfall,

"Flow"

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2006
Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 24 in.

; award, art, painting, waterfalls, stone, building, water, mist

Martin Maddox Prize for Imaginative Realist Painting, 2006, Kalamazoo Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Kalamazoo, Michigan

"Vessels"

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2008
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 42 in.

, art, painting, boats, rowboats, long, waterfalls, mist, fog, water

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"Niagara"

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2009
Acrylic Wash, Drybrush, and Paint on Cotton Watercolor Paper
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

waterfalls, falls, water, landscapes

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"The Garden"

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2000
Acrylic on Canvas
16 x 13 in.
Private Collection: Unknown Collector

, art, painting, islands, apples, tree, mist, fog, water, lake, clouds

"Someday"

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2005
Acrylic on Hardboard
3 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.
Private Collection: Kalamazoo, Michigan

, art, painting, landscape, water, dusk, twilight

“David Jay Spyker’s ‘Building Empires’, which won the second place prize, is a meticulously detailed image rendered with a quasi-Renaisannce style and palette. The viewer looks through a crumbling window, the ledge of which swarms with bugs and fruit. In the distance is a timeless city on the water’s edge, below an oddly menacing sunset. It’s a strong allegorical painting that, unlike straightforward realism, mystifies more than it clarifies.”

– Amy Sult, from an exhibition review published onÂ Sunday, April 4, 1999 in theÂ Kalamazoo Gazette

1998
Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 40 in.
Private Collection: Holland, Michigan

award, art, painting, ruins, dusk, twilight, pomegranates, ants, windows, landscape, shore, water, bay, mortality, history, civilization

2nd Place Award, 1999, Regional Fine Arts Competition, Carnegie Center for the Arts; Three Rivers, Michigan

4th Place Award, 1999, 20th Michigan Artists’ Competition, Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, Michigan

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"The Isle of the Dead"

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1997
Acrylic on Panel
12 x 12 in.
Private Collection: Holland, Michigan

, art, painting, islands, boats, rowboat, calla lily, flower, water, mist, fog, solitary, solitude, figure, sea

"The Return"

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2000
Acrylic on Hardboard
7 x 10 in.

Collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan

art, painting, boats, rowboat, rain, storm, dock, shore, beach, woman, figures, water, island, museum, collection

Companion painting to “The Retreat“, 2000, Acrylics on Hardboard, 7 x 10 in., Private Collection: Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind.”-The Lay of the Last MinstrelSir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

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"Waiting for the Tide"

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2000
Acrylic on Canvas Mounted on Hardboard
12 x 10 in.
Private Collection: Saugatuck, Michigan

, art, painting, sea, shore, figure, cloaked, robed, night, clouds, water, solitary, solitude, alone

"The Retreat"

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2000
Acrylic on Hardboard
6 x 10 in.
Private Collection: Grand Rapids, Michigan

, art, painting, boats, islands, rowboat, mist, fog, water, seascape, solitary, solitude, alone

Companion painting to “The Return“, 2000, Acrylics on Hardboard, 7 x 10 in., which is in the public collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan.