ARTIST STATEMENT

All of my original drawings, paintings and sculptures were destroyed in December 2021 in the Marshall Fire. Fire destroys, but it also transforms. Fortunately, I had archived photographic images and digital scans of a representative portion of my full body of artwork. After the dust settled in April of 2022, I initiated a printing project to restore and reimagine my incinerated work. The new representation of this work introduces revised colors, tones and scale in different mediums. These new exhibited pieces on high-density metal and brushed aluminum , are the fruits of reimagined self expression of some, but not nearly most of my lost original art created over several decades.

My series of mythological figures were large paintings on paper, some measuring 5 X 7 feet. When these paintings are printed on metal, various textures and surface effects emerge. Additionally, I found that my smaller painted images of triangular shapes also display a variety of changing optical effects when printed on brushed aluminum.

The series of Head Portraits were originally done as watercolors and oil pastel on cotton cloth. In the Celtic tradition, the head of a person is where they believed the Soul resided. My intention was to continue that tradition by revealing the animating presence of that spirit, which could appear as animal, botanical, or divine face.

My graphic art is an extensive collection of line drawings, where a diverse range of abstract creatures as denizens of sea or air, or as shapeshifting beasts. In some of these renderings it is motion itself, as indicated by the variation and extension of the drawn line that is the subject of the image.

The series entitled Geometricks are figurative colored drawings, many in gold paint on black surface. They explore themes of falling and rising; and the cycle of birth, death, and resurrection. Many of these I have printed on canvas, and some on high-density metal.

Currently, I am creating figurative line drawings, using ink on paper. In these I find a new source of creative delight.