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…
fine art, textile, clothing and jewelry design
Tagged minimalism
HARLEQUIN DESERT LANDSCAPE SERIES #2, 2023
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 HARLEQUIN DESERT LANDSCAPE SERIES, #1
“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.”
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,…
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…
“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.”
‘RESERVOIR’, a power spot…
‘Reservoir’ evokes deep intimations of a serene high mountain desert landscape consisting of sky, mountain, land and water.’








