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 “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…
“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.”
“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.”
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” 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,…
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…
This painting is a great example of the idea that there may be no such thing as a truly abstract painting because as Picasso once said, “It is impossible for a painting to be about nothing”. At first glance it does indeed appear to be a simple abstract work, yet upon a bit of extended…
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