Artists Statement

* ********************************************************************************** It is my belief that everyone is on a spiritual quest, whether we know it or not. Everything we do is a reflection of the deeper reality that is always with us. We are like the fish who swim in the sea, unaware of the very water that surrounds us. These paintings are a result of a lifetime of spiritual quest. Over the years I have been a student of life and history. God and the spiritual side of life are a wonder to me. I ask, what is it all about and how are we to live? I find the experience of life to be absolutely magical and in these paintings I am expressing a vision of the interconnectedness of everything, the vitality of life force in all of this beautiful dream we live in. My hope is to participate in making beauty evident on canvas through these images. The magical in the everyday. They are a combination of abstraction and objective, a combination of seen and unseen. A reminder to lift the veil and see what lies beyond.

Today is a new day, or is it night?

Today is the first day of my life...that can't be right...I remember yesterday and it was a great day too, what nonsense, tomorrow I plan on eating more veggies and starting a new painting, I have so many options, there are the gigantic white canvases waiting, and there are some small pieces that need final work, and there are art supplies galore waiting in their boxes to be set free again, now that the holidays are over, I am considering becoming more bohemian in the new year. It would be a minor adjustment to be more decorative in my clothing than I have been in the past, and it might possibly be lots more fun. I will be changing my art work at the Guadalupe Art Dogs Gallery, the series I have called Natural Energies (thanks to my friends for helping with the name) is going to be moved from the lovely little gallery in Comfort, The Lucky Bat, on the first of the new year. Painting is the most wonderful thing I can think of to do! I will be teaching a really interesting class soon at the Guadalupe Art Dogs...more on that later.