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…
‘Hold on to your elegance. And if you’ve lost it, now is the time to start to reclaim it”…
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…
“The images in the Shaman’s Dream series are never painted intentionally. They always emerge spontaneously while I am consciously intending to paint abstractly.”
“The universal symbol of the harlequin portends a new level of freedom, fun, growth and creative expression.”…
“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.”
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,…
“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,…
“Modern art is ultimately about the ability to allow a spontaneous expression of an unconscious, inner impulse uncensored by the thinking, calculating, conscious mind.”
“Bouyancy” is part of an ongoing series entitled “Explorations in Soft Abstraction”. Much of my work is characterized by graphic hard lines, shapes and forms. In the soft abstraction series I explore diffuse lines, shapes and forms along with soft, blended color transitions. I feel the influence of Mark Rothko very powerfully in these works.…
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