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HARLEQUIN DESERT LANDSCAPE SERIES, #3

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…

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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 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.”

“GENIE OUT OF THE BOTTLE”…

This work is part of the spring 2021 Harlequin painting series. It continues with the playful theme of fun and magic represented by harlequin symbolism in general, but goes on to refer more specifically to the well known fairy tale concept of letting the genie out of the bottle and all of the unpredicatable consequences…

‘HARLEQUIN STUDY’…

Harlequins have been a recurring theme in my work for many years. I rarely, if ever, intentionally paint one. Rather they seem to emerge spontaneously when I am painting abstractly, or so I think. At a certain point in the painting process I begin to recognize some form of a harlequin emerging. Each harlequin is…