Tree Women will guide you
They are keeping time through the dark,
holding memory safe,
under copper rocks
Crooked Path of Winter
watercolour, lacquer, konaunmo (ground shell) on paper
Painting cut apart, reassembled to give a slightly dimensional abstraction.
Image: 12 x 12 inches
private collection
Phthalo Man, what an intoxicating colour!
The can-opener’s floor is dull as dirt, warm sand, boring. Now, I’ve been watching her for months. Her concentration is almost cat-like as she dips and swipes. I decide it’s time to do her a favor, spice up the place while she is out chopping wood.
Phthalo!! Intense permanent blue Purrfect!
First […]
when it rains….when it is too cold to work in the studio….when it is too hot….
or simply when…
Undercliff
I move away from the big paintings, take small squares of paper and my paints onto the covered patio, or under my Ash tree.
I listen
to the Rain, the Wind, Empty Space and who […]
Rain walking
rain drumming
on my parka hood
Lost in Mist
mist laying down glitter
among the grasses
and diamonds on the leaves
soft rain and mist
Misty Trail
secret paths
that disappear in the sun
More small works in Dream Voices tseka
Letting go of the valley
last year’s plowridges are found
winter returns to the mountains
Earthquakes, dry wind, spring floods all leave their mark as they form a desert valley between granite ranges.
I was having dinner with a friend who asked me why I cut my paintings apart. It is a common question I receive about my work. The answer went something like this:
Running my finger around the porcelain tea bowl, I asked him, “Do you see this? It is perfect.”
I held the cup up to […]
The Flaw is the Invitation
(click image to enlarge)
Empty spaces left
to be filled
with experiences and memories
stored in another’s heart.
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The fragments are from the lower right corner of the painting.
Icicle Creek (collection of the artist)
This is where my heart lives
Eighteen hundred miles from me
the tides roll in and out
I feel them in my body still
hear the wind in the fir tops
smell the salt flats
