Welcome to my open studio on the internet.
Within these pages I present and discuss various aspects and ideas that form the background of my work.
I work concurrently on a number of different series of paintings. The Paths of Golden Gate Park, Petroglyphs and Lascaux, Oceans, Clouds/Sky/and the Archetypal Realms, and portraiture.
Acrylic, Watercolor, Pastel, or Charcoal
Priced beginning at $250
8" x 10" photograph $120
Images can be captured from old slides and placed into a new format using Photoshop
"Grandmother"
Photoshop Gicle
The mural project has been ongoing for a number of years. I have created interior and exterior murals. And, as digital technology has developed, I have expanded into panoramic photographic murals.
I love every inch of the park and no matter the time of day, or season of the year, the park presents a gorgeous face. There are particular months that I go to the park, March and April for cherry blossoms, July and August for full flower of the Dahlia garden, November and December for fall foliage.
I have been doing video commentaries about my painting sites in Golden Gate Park and loading them up onto YouTube.
Encaustic on Canvas
4' x 3'
The Dancing Ladies
Encaustic on Paper
11" x 15"
Horses
Encaustic on torn paper
11" x 15"
The
Black Cow
Encaustic on Egyptian Cartonage
14" x 18"
I always wanted to get a rock-like surface for the encaustic series of petroglyphs and Lascaux paintings. In 2007 I brought a ten-year process to fruition with the use of cartonage, an ancient Egyptian method of surface construction to create something that looks like a rock.
About the encaustic process.
When I began the series I felt there was 'something' of great beauty that was just beyond my reach and understanding. I painted for three years, blindly, drawing purely from feeling. The feeling was that there was some great beautiful thing about flying in the sky or images of flying in the sky. I divided the picture plane into the Golden Mean and then put ground colors below and sky colors above. There was also something about clouds that stirred me. I painted for three years, one picture right after another; searching. Always searching for that 'something' that moved within my heart just beyond awareness. Then, one afternoon, like a bolt of lightning, the memory resurfaced and I was transported in lucid reality recalling a near death experience I had as a child. I laughed afterwards because, of course, I had been flying in the sky and that was what the feeling was all about. These pieces are from that period of remembrance.
Finding the mental and emotional states required to gain communion with higher realms of being requires a certain amount of meditation practice. I have a few of my favorite techniques listed on my de-stress meditation page.
The 4 Minute Meditation is easily done and, since it takes but four minutes to complete, can be done by just about anyone. It's a start. (The link will take you to YouTube. To come back here, press the back button on your browser, or, stay on You Tube and investigate other meditation videos.)
If you are curious and would like an authentic Buddhist course, the Tibetan Buddhist site, AroBuddhism gives an internet email course in meditation
Another site for meditation practice, this one from the Taoist tradition, is Spring Forest Chi Gung. Master Lin is one of the best healers I have heard of.
Encaustic on Canvas
12" x 9"
"Petie": Acrylic on Canvas
A couple of friends asked me to do portraits of their pets. Working with animal faces is quite fascinating. I have done two cats, one of them twice. I think I need to try a dog some time.
