I had great fun creating this image. It just came together as if waiting in the wings to appear... . Voila! C'est ca.
"Un ou Deux?" Monotype with pastel, oil, charcoal, and ink. 12 X 8.5 inches, framed in contemporary black frame, $225 USD plus shipping.
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A man in a hat, not the cat in a hat--an image which appeared as I was playing with color and line. Somewhere deep in my psyche I have an image of a man here in Taos who wore a tall hat much of the time (much like the man in this monotype). He is long gone from Taos and the planet, but the residual remains.
A Taos Original, Monotype with Oil, 6 X 4 inches (image size), matted and framed, $175 USD
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A new experimental monotype for me: Background of black and white printed with etching press--random marks on the plate finished with swishes of oil paint to create a contemporary figure.
The Secrets Within, Monotype with Oil, 20 X 13 (image size), matted and framed, $325 USD
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Back to what I normally do: paint and/or create monotypes of unusual characters, including myself. This is the latest in my series of monotypes, this time one
of myself like or unlike my presence. Always fun to manipulate the human face in unusual ways.
Self Portrait, Monotype with Ink, 16 X 6 inches, matted and framed to 21 X 11 inches, $295 USD
Back to a Southwest image, one of the few Southwest images in my portfolio of work. I love the place where I live, Taos, New Mexico, and every so often I like to deviate from my contemporary figurative work to pay homage in a painting to this very special place. This pueblo is the longest continually inhabited pueblo of the Southwest. Never did I expect to live here for close to 20 years, but that is what happened--must be the power of the mountain which can embrace you or chase you away, according to local legend. I tried to chase myself away, but that just wouldn't happen regardless of how hard I tried. And now I know I can't leave. The land is in my blood.
Taos Pueblo Forever, Monotype with Oil, 4 X 6 inches, matted in black, framed in contemporary silver frame.
Available at Jackies Trading Post, 129 North Plaza, Taos, NM, 575-758-4828
I live in a place where the beauty of surrounding mountains inundates the lives of those who live within viewing distance. That place is Taos, New Mexico in the Land of Enchantment. This very contemporary rendering of the mountains is another way to feel their splendor and emotion. Not a realistic painting, but something that comes from the heart.
Mystical Mountains, Monotype on Paper, 4 X 6 inches, $95 (unframed)
$140 (matted and framed)
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I don't often create Southwestern images, but this one rattled around in my head for a few weeks until I put it on paper. The colors are very New Mexican as are the mountains in all their glory. Probably the first of a few more of its kind to make an appearance in the next few weeks. Keep watching.
Mountain Glory, Monotype with Watercolor, 4 X 6 inches
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I am happy to be one of the featured artists in this exhibit:
Show Title: We Are Here
Where: Core Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado
When: Show runs January 25-February 11, 2018
Hours: Thursday, 12-6
Friday, 12-9
Saturday, 12-6
Sunday, 1-4
First Friday Art Walk: Friday, February 2, 6-9
Life is a journey, taking us to places we know not. Whether of the past or present, the journey is to be valued for with each step we come closer to knowing who we are and where we are headed. And along the way we meet others on their own personal journey with whom we have so much to share. What started for me as life in rural Ohio where I traversed corn fields, picked off tomato worms and enjoyed the slow days of summer has turned into a glorious life adventure with travel taking me to many parts of the world and people sharing their special places in life. This piece is a tribute to the journeys of all. May they be safe and filled with life enriching experience.
Journey into the Unknown, Monotype with Charcoal and Oils, 6 X 4 inches, framed, $145 USD
Time--how does it become transformed within our psyches? The novels of Marias and Barnes explain time to their readers in concepts transcending the present. Memory begins from the moment of event occurrence. Events pass through our perceptual mechanisms resulting in as many renditions of an event are there are people. Twisting and turning of memory elements make us into whom we imagine ourselves to be. Time becomes critical in the process.
I was inspired by the work of Julian Barnes and Javier Marias as I viewed this image into being. Each looks at time and remembrance some place in their novels, The Sense of an Ending (Barnes) and Dark Back of Time (Marias). Barnes writes that "time grounds us and then confounds us." (102) How true! Marias expresses the same in a different way: "Everything is fractured" and "nothing is known with certainty and everything is told figuratively" (201). Time is the critical factor caught in a moment of my imagination and frozen there for time (unless I decide to change it) thus confounding me even more. Wait until I read Proust--will it be the English or French version? Time will tell.
Remembering Time, Monotype with charcoal and oil, 9 3/4 X 5, $250 USD
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Should I start making ransom arrangments? No one can give me a really good consistent reason why this art work has been held for the past month. To question the validity of this original art work is beyond the realm of rationale. Examining the work for more than two weeks is a bit much. Just to feel the paint and inks, to smell them and to look at
the work should be good enough reason to classify them as original work. But maybe the XRay machines need to do their work.
I have been told that my work has a European feel to it, but all should know I was born in the US, live in the US, and work in the US. I am not copying or making posters of the work of another artist. These pieces just appear on my canvas. From where, I know not.
If anyone has ideas as to how to approach this problem, please let me know. [email protected]