The “Desert Landscape Series” is an ongoing theme in my work that reflects years of living and traveling in the intermountain west and desert southwest of the US. Environments affect us so profoundly. I have always found high mountain desert environments to be particularly rarified and powerful in their effect upon me. In them, I feel as if I am in my element. Stylistically, I see the influence of Picasso and Matisse most notably in this 2023 series.
fine art, textile, clothing and jewelry design
“ABOUT METASYMBOLISM”…
“Over the course of my thirty-five year journey as an artist, I have become intimately acquainted with a sub domain of the collective unconscious that I refer to as the indigenous soul.”
“SHAMAN’S DREAM, 2023”
“The images in the Shaman’s Dream series are never painted intentionally. They always emerge spontaneously while I am consciously intending to paint abstractly.”
PAINTING AND JEWELRY MAKING…
Well, friends, 2023 is the year I would like to begin to incorporate more fully my work with jewelry into the gallery. I aspire to do it in a way that shows the relationship of painting to my jewelry making. This means creating an exhibit that weaves the two media together showing how they reflect,…
“THE HARLEQUINS ARE OUT”…again…
“The universal symbol of the harlequin portends a new level of freedom, fun, growth and creative expression.”…
“THE ARK”, 2023…
“The appearance of archetypal symbols and themes in art, dreams and visions are of potentially great import in helping us to understand not only what is currently happening, but what is to come as well.”
COFFEE MEDITATION, RUFINO TAMAYO AND TONAL PAINTING…
I finally solved a problem in painting that I have been trying to figure out since 2010 when I first encountered the work of modern Mexican master, Rufino Tamayo. I am a late comer to the work of Tamayo. Like many modern artists, I am still at times unconsciously enmeshed in the bias that tends…
NewJewelry, 2022
Well friends! The first half of 2022, like every year before it, has provided its own unique stream of creative inspiration that never fails to surprise and delight me. 2021 focused upon a resumption of painting, the development of printed textiles and clothing (seen in the photo), furniture items, and the opening of the MARTS…
“Desert Flower”
“Desert Flower” is part of a new, emerging minimalist series in 2022. The series features bold, graphic works in black with a small, singular element of color. The key word here is “restraint”, which is easier said than done. So much more could be added to any piece in this series and yet the powerful,…
“The Destruction of Atlantis”
“Modern art is ultimately about the ability to allow a spontaneous expression of an unconscious, inner impulse uncensored by the thinking, calculating, conscious mind.”
MARTS MODERN 