Free Blooming

It has been a very long while since I have posted on my blog. My work has changed and evolved as I have grown as an artist. This is a close up of one of my older pieces but new to the blog. As I post I will be able to visually take you through my progresss as an artist, if you do not follow me on Facebook or Instagram.  Hope you enjoy. All work is for sale of course, contact me if interested. 
 

It Will All Depend On Our Focus

Another finished piece of summer work.  Original sketches inked with a quill pen on tracing paper so that the images are semi transparent.  The back ground is paper alternated with the sports stats page.
Fluid Acrylic washes over the background.

My work is always about nature, plants, toxins, GMOs, and the future of our world.  I was re reading one of my most favorite books,  Mutant Message From Down Under by Marlo Morgan.  Wonderful book, challenging observations.  I have written and rewritten artists statements that try to sum up my feeling and intent, but she wrote it crystal clear.

"We are destroying the soul of the earth  Our technical greed has uncovered a deep ignorance that is a serious threat to all life,  an ignorance that only reverence for nature can reverse. "

H 14" x W 11"
Fluid Acrylic washes, quill pen and ink, various papers

Thanks for the view.  

Time, A Changing Mirage

Clocks and Maps,  The world is set and recorded, but it is only a mirage, that chances with time.  It must be drawn again, named again. Borders and alliances growing together, then come apart, again.  We move on, every changing.

Collage 
W 6" x H 10"
Fluid acrylics, Quill pen and ink, various papers, vintage maps, molding paste

A Few Spots Left/ is now Not Many Left

Well, you know how it is.  You look back at some of your work and you realize that it is all wrong.  The background doesn't work, the foreground doesn't work, or the whole thing just doesn't work.  But, part of it you really still feel is strong.  A few pages down you will find the original posts about these nine small landscapes.  Really like the small landscapes, but the setting was wrong.  So here is the redo.  I feel it is much stronger now.   see what you think.

Collage

Size W 10" x H 10.5"  each landscape is 3" x 3"
Fluid acrylics, Quill pen and ink, water color pencils, various papers 

Don't Listen to the Words, If you aren't looking at the Actions

New Piece, once again, Alcohol ink, quill pen and colored ink, on YUPO.
Why try to reach other worlds, if we can't not destroy this one, destruction will only spread.
As my Mom always said, actions speak louder than words.  Thanks for the view. 

New news

I am very happy and humbled that the Alcohol ink piece shown in my last post, that is now renamed As They Float Away, has been accepted for publication by North Light Books for their Incite 4.  It should be out in September. 

Hunter, Gatherer, Industrial, Digital, Hunter....  has also been accepted for publication in a book of work by members of the Society of Layerist in Multi Mediums.  It is also a few posts down.  thanks for the view. 

The first half of the school year has flown by and we are now in the Spring semester, so my time in the studio is limited.  Hope to have more new work soon.   thanks for the view!

To Jettison Without Solutions, Not To Wise

Another alcohol Ink on Yupo with intense drawing with quill pen and Colored Inks.
If we don't solve our problems here on earth, jettisoning them into space will only multiply our problems.  Thanks for the view.  

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Connections

This piece is a little bit different,  it is not a Collage.  Using contact paper and Alcohol Inks in several different layers of application, I built up the composition.  Then with my favorite Quill pen and colored inks I began to draw on the multi surface.

Size   H 14" x W 11"
Medium    Quill pen and colored inks, Alcohol inks, Yupo paper

Invitation to the Creative Arts Center of Dallas 2015 Show

Very Happy to be in the Show.  If you are in Dallas or going to Dallas, hope you have time to see the show.

hunter/gatherer/industrial/digital/hunter/gatherer...

This piece began from an experiment.  Walnut ink spray, round plastic needle point canvas, cut into part circles.  I laid the cut plastic circles on pieces of torn artist's proofs of intaglio prints I made in college, and spayed.  The circles, part circles, reminded me of cave drawing symbols.  The color scheme of the eucalyptus, sienna, java, and walnut, seemed to add to that feeling.  

Size  H 12" x W 9"    Medium  Collage, quill and Ink, walnut inks, intaglio proofs, various papers

 

 

 

Warning, Just a few Spots Left

I finally finished my new piece, with the 9 small collages that I posted before. 
As we kill off more and more land, the spots of natural beauty will become fewer and fewer.

Size  H 21" x W 28"
Mediums   Quill pen and ink, Inktense, Fluid Acrylics, Various papers

False words, While the beauty slips away

Size  H 8" x 6"
Medium   Quill pen and ink, inktense, book pages, various papers.

In keeping with the always theme in my work of our stewardship, or lack, of the earth we live on, this is a statement of the horrible slow death we are causing the plants around us, due to chemical profits.
The very soil we depend on is dying, and the beauty of rare and common plants is floating out of our grasp.  In this specific piece, an exotic plant is broken up into circles, and floating away from us, as the soil is dying, and the sky darkens with foreboding.

I have two pieces that have been juried into the SLMM online National Show.  The show is up for view, at slmm.org   The title of the exhibit is "Ebb and Flow"    

Thanks for the view.

All That Remains (In Progress)

Continuing with small work, I created 9 small landscapes, each 3" x 3".  They will each be placed on a crumpled piece of paper that looks like a cross between seal gut and parchment with string reinforcement running through it at 1 inch intervals.  Then all 9 will be mounted again on a single background.  As the finished piece will be to large to scan here at my studio, I am showing only the bits and pieces now,  after the piece is finished and camera shot, I will show you the finished piece.
Thanks for the view. 

Smaller Than It Used to Be

This piece, still working small, is a little bit different.  I created a diptych, which means two pieces, on one background.  Each Piece is H 3" x W 7".

Size   H 8" x W 9"

Medium     Collage      Quill Pen and Ink, Flow Acrylics, Various Papers, including old map reprint

As always, like to hear from you.  My website, with a new page added for small work, can be reached by clicking the link at the top right of this page. 

In The Light of Day

Size   H 10" x W 6"   Collage   molding paste, quill and ink, Fluid Acrylics, various papers


I have added a new page to my website, for Small Work.  If you would like to view them all as well as my larger pieces,  the link is at the top right of the opening blog page. 

Haunted by the Past

Wanted to post some of my new pieces, There are 4 new pieces added. My scanner is finally working again!  New, as in recently finished, but all so new, as in my work is changing, evolving, which is how it should happen. 

I am working on a smaller scale, still collage, but drawing on the collage itself, or using odd bits of drawings. The work is more spontaneous.  It begins with a ground of Molding Paste to create a Multi textured layer to build upon.

More news, Falling Together, which was in the Arizona show sold.  Very happy about that.

  Thanks for viewing.

A New World Order

2nd of my new work

Size   H 4" x 11"     Collage    Fluid Acrylics, Molding Paste, Various Papers

Spinning Thru the Universe

3rd New small work

  Size   10" x 6"    Ink,  Fluid Acrylics, Various papers

A New World Coming

4th of my new work.  

H 6" x 8"     Medium    Collage,   Ink, Alcohol Inks, Various Papers

They Will Thrive Without Us

Collage    Pen and ink renderings, inktense, etching proofs from my college days, various papers.    10 x 13 unframed