Lance's paintings depict some women as strong, some as vulnerable, all with pathos.



"The Fainters Field" speaks to the dearth of true ecstasy and the spiritual malaise that our culture experiences as a result of our collective and personal neglect of soul. It depicts a domesticated housewife that finds her mundane and slowly disintegrating existence giving way to narcoleptic journeys to exotic places that immerse her in genuine ecstatic experience, from forbidden to sacred, and finally depicts her transformation and her challenge in forging a way to integrate the responsibilities of home and social life, with their edicts, prohibitions and expectations, with true, free, wild spiritual experience and fulfillment.



"Pink Dress" celebrates the sweet innocence of a little girl. Beyond that the series depicts a father's angst, and an examination of his own attitudes at the realizations he experiences as he watches his own adolescent daughter come of age in a world - one that thrives on the of exploitation of young women for commerce. He moves on to his concerns in the face of the dangers and traps that a teen age female is faced with today. Paintings like "Off Camera" show the glamourous young model the day after her photo session. The face, yesterday so scintalating and sophisticated, is now that of an awkward adolescent, dreary and anonymous. Her limbs reveal scars and bruises of a slave that were covered yesterday with rouge and lingerie.



His "Strong Women" series uses women athletes as metaphors for the spiritual strength he witnesses in his own wife as she lives so valiantly, having defied all boundaries and "handicaps" to go on to acquire a master's degree in psychology and take on the gruelling work as a therapist at a domestic violence shelter in spite of her multiple sclerosis. These works are also a tribute to the many courageous women who overcome so many obstacles and hardships and give their all to the challenges that come with being a single mother.