Who are some of your influences? Early in my career, American Regionalist Painters of the ‘30s, and Early Renaissance Painting (both of which I still like and admire). How has your work evolved over time? My paintings have gotten more realistic, and at the same time, more impressionistic, as I move more and more from a hard-edge, cartoony, made up realism to something taken more from actual observation, as well as paintings involving more figures, and backgrounds that do not show real space. What mediums do you work in? Mostly acrylic paint on canvas
Attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University.
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What is your artistic background? I have been a full time artist since 1984. The Colorado Springs Fine Art center owns one of my paintings.So does the Albuquerque Museum of Art. During that time I have also shown at various galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Colorado but Scottsdale has remained my major retail focus. My paintings have been featured on a number of products for many years including poster prints, greeting cards, jigsaw puzzles, and tee shirts.Įxhibition history: I have exhibited paintings continuously in Scottsdale, Arizona since 1984. Besides easel paintings, I have completed three public art projects in Denver, and in 2010 completed a great mural painting in a local church. Besides painting, my main interests are high-country hiking, contra dancing, the performance of choral music, and trips to Europe and Mexico. I and my wife, and formerly our now grown-up children, live in a ramshackle Victorian at the foot of Pikes Peak, surrounded by gardens and fruit trees. I studied and spent some time back East in my early days otherwise, I have been a lifelong resident of Colorado, although a frequent visitor to, and lover of, New Mexico and Arizona.
I am a third-generation native of Colorado, married, and the father of four. I am especially fond of small towns, back roads, and blue highways, where old trucks, lowriders, and airstream trailers can be found and life goes on in a timeless way.
I like to paint figures, which so far have not featured prominently in my paintings but I see my work moving in the direction of more figures and more realism. Often, my paintings exhibit a touch of humor others I paint to evoke cosmic feelings still others are complex displays of fruit and vegetables. Indeed, some of my paintings are crowded with non-landscape elements. I am drawn not only to the beauties but also the oddities of the Southwest – the outrageous topography, the tourist traps, the honky-tonk strips, the old motel signs, the clash of cultures, the places where Indian America meets the science fiction of the ‘Fifties as well as the pueblos, the sparkling deserts, the blue ranges, the birds in the morning…I prefer the rural countryside to the unpopulated wilderness, and rarely paint a landscape without some kind of human activity or artifact in it. Mainly I paint northern New Mexico and southern Arizona but the extremes of my interest range from the frosty peaks of Colorado to the shores of the desert sea in Baja California, and all the wide open spaces in between. They are often nostalgic, sometimes “cartoony”, sometimes quite naturalistic. My pictures rarely represent an actual place, but rather a place as I think it should be. For over thirty years I have painted scenes from all over the Southwest.
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