I always flounder when someone asks “What kind of art do you do?”. I would rather just show you the link to the work or put you in a room with my paintings and let you respond to them, and then hope that you don’t categorize me. The main thing I would like you to know for certain when you see my work is that it is unmistakeably mine. I’d like to think there is a constant that characterizes my work no matter what subject matter I approach. The image pictured here dates from my college days, and there’s a familiar arrested movement, a certain distortion of the subject matter and an element of mystery that I hope carries through all of my work. And of course it is a lithograph, so there is a limited amount of color and color seems to be the thing that people mention most in the current acrylics. If you look at the second picture I’ve posted, which is current, you might see that they are similar in approach.
The fact is I live in the Southwest, so perhaps that makes me a Southwestern Artist no matter what I do; but do understand that I am not intending to paint a genre of painting. Each time I paint, I’m painting something that became very relevant to me at a point in time. If that thing happens to be a cactus I am not painting it to match a decor or a theme, I am painting it because it impacted me. To get painted, a subject has to impact me pretty deeply and admittedly, I am often impacted by the desert environment. I think that is because it displays such extreme power. The desert gives off an almost magical aura and the whole place in general is very surreal and I like the surreal.
But that doesn’t mean I won’t and don’t intend to paint things other than the Sonoran Desert. I hope that by continuing to paint what amazes me the work will evolve and remain fresh and relevant. I also hope to do some traveling soon.
So I trust you’ll understand my evolution, and not try categorize what I do or what kind of decor it belongs in, because it simply belongs in any place in want of color and design.
