Pastels
Zuni Mountains, NM
My
pastel landscapes are primarily of the Zuni Mountains in west central
New
Mexico,
where I have lived for the past 32 years, along with any other
places I manage
to get to.
For
many years I painted abstracted oils, and occasionally colored pencils,
of ideas
arising from and interest in Relativity and Quantum Theories. These
led to
images in a
similar style, of Anasazi ruins. It was an "analytical mind"
period.
A few
years ago, I briefly stopped painting (and possibly thinking.) When
the
fog cleared,
I found myself pastel in hand, confronting the view before
me. Painting the
landscape is
an exercise inbeing here now. Where once
I painted about what I believed, I now
paint as a meditation into what IS.
"Bend in the San Jose"
Old 66 near Grants, NM
"Dawn on Oak Ridge"
Tennessee
"Pine Hill Wash"
New Mexico
"My Heart Breaks Open"
April 2008 Old School Gallery Spring Art Exhibition - "Variations on a Theme"