My submissions to the New Mexico Only Purchase Initiative have been selected by jurors and will be included in a portfolio of artworks available for purchase for the Art in Public Places Program. Over the next 2 years, they will be shown to various sites and public buildings throughout New Mexico that have 1% for public art funds available to them.
One Line Landscape - Mesa /2023 / beeswax, sumi and clay watercolor with mole brush on kozo paper / 9 x 24
I am excited to announce that I’ll be participating in ART IN THE WEST at the HIGH DESERT MUSEUM in Bend, Oregon for the 3rd year in a row. It will be visible at the museum and online from July 8th through September 22nd. The show is full of wonderful art and all will be auctioned online and on the last evening during the closing reception. Please join us by clicking the button below!
What’s Over There?
I got 2 paintings into the ART IN THE WEST show. It is an auction and an exhibition.
Bidding can be done in person or online at:
- Exhibition Opens to the public: Thursday, July 29, 2021
- Exhibition Closes to the public: Saturday, October 16th at 5pm
- Exhibit Closing Event for artists and the General Public: Saturday, October 16th from 6:00-8:00pm
- Bidding Closes: Saturday, October 16th at 7pm
Come to my presentation on these amazing birds!
I’ll be giving a half hour slide show and talk online starting November 21st, available at: Crane Talk
October 31st through January 31st at OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER / 6500 COORS BLVD NW / ALBUQUERQUE
I will be presenting CRANE MUSIC, an exhibit of paintings in Sumi and handmade watercolors of Sandhill Cranes.
Check out the video introduction to my exhibit online at: www.cabq.gov/openspace .
CRANE MUSIC / 2020 / handmade watercolor on chalk-gessoed paper / 19 X 65
I have been invited to be the FESTIVAL ARTIST for the 2019 Sandhill Crane Festival in Lodi, California. This 3-day festival celebrates the Sandhill Cranes that use the Central Valley of California for their winter home. There will be field trips and lectures, an exhibition hall and an art show with many artists showing photos and paintings.
I will have a central location in that show where I will exhibit many of my sumi paintings and paintings with my handmade paints and brushes, all of cranes!
This image, Courtship, was chosen for all the Festival promotional materials and the original will be on view and for sale at the Festival:
I’ll be showing a suite of 6 Native California Lilies at PIANTE Gallery in Eureka, CA
ART'S ALIVE Opening Reception: Saturday, August 3
620 2nd Street, Eureka CA
707-441-1322
Fawn Lily / 2019 / sumi and colored gampi paper with handmade badger brush / 13 x 13
THE EGG has been accepted to an exciting show at ARTS BENICIA called ENCHANTED REALM: METAPHORS OF NATURAL DESIGN.
Exhibition Dates are June 1-July 7 at: Arts Benicia Gallery , 991 Tyler Street, Suite 114 Benicia, CA
PUBLIC RECEPTION: SATURDAY JUNE 1, 6-8 PM
Member Preview with Exhibiting Artists and Juror Talk: Thursday, May 30, 6-7 PM
Art/Avian Science Lecture by Nathan Lynch: June 6, at 6:30 PM
I’m off to the Lodi Crane Festival for a weekend of watching Sandhills on their wintering ground. The Greater Sandhills share the wetlands of the Central Valley for a few months with thousands of migrant Lesser Sandhills from Canada and Alaska. It’s super impressive! The festival accepted the following photo and sumi painting to their art show, so the opening on Friday night should be great fun.
UNISON CALL 27 X 24
I’m writing this many months after my PLAYA residency and still the experience lingers. What a rich opportunity it was and some of the work painted during last February can now be seen in my Greater Sandhill Crane gallery.
I'm off to Playa at Summer Lake for a 3 week Artist Residency! PLAYA is in the flyway of the Greater Sandhill Cranes and they will be arriving to court, mate and nest in the area. I'm so excited to be with the cranes again and to have the added luxury of a studio and a supportive program so I can dive deeper into the project I am calling REFUGE. Check them out at: www.playasummerlake.org
In March of 2016 and again in June I traveled to northeastern California to do an informal artist's residency at the Modoc National Wildlife Refuge. My intention was to study and photograph the Greater Sandhill Cranes on their courting and nesting ground.
From those photographs and with paint handmade from the charcoal remains of the burned down Visitor Center at the Refuge, I was able to create these paintings as a gesture of hope for the hardworking staff and the visitors who so love the Refuge.
A portion of sales from this work will go to the preservation of habitat for this threatened species. If interested, please inquire on my Contact page.
DESERT ESSENCE is a benefit show for ANZA-BORREGO FOUNDATION.
OPENING October 10, 5-8 pm at BORREGO ART INSTITUTE, through October 31.
PUBLIC GALLERY TALK on October 31, 2:30 pm
665 Palm Canyon Drive, Borrego Springs, CA 760-767-5152
DESERT ESSENCE is the fruition of an informal Artist's Residency in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. A selection of 7 paintings of flowers, jackrabbits and desert ram's horns, in pigments gathered in the desert, with brushes made from local animal fur; it is Anza-Borrego painted with Anza-Borrego. It will coincide with the BAI's annual Flora & Fauna Show.
BORREGO RAM / 2015 desert pigment / handmade coyote brush / 22 x 38 in
March / 2015
ART'S ALIVE Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7
620 2nd Street, Eureka CA 707-441-1322
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Piante-Gallery/138750519490911
Bob Doran just published this about the show in the HUM: http://www.wildberries.com/the-hum/zen-art-birds-flying-still/
My Plicopurpura pansa story with photos and paintings was featured in the November 2014 issue of the San Diego Shell Society's journal, THE FESTIVUS. You can see many of my P. pansa paintings on my SHELLS page.
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
MOVING MOMENT - Baja's Wildlife in Sumi - June 6 - August 3, 2014
Japanese Friendship Garden Balboa Park, San Diego
http://www.niwa.org/exhibit/moving-moment
Saturday June 14, 10am - 1pm
I will offer a class in using Sumi (Japanese ink) to express the lives of the plants and animals in the Japanese Friendship Garden.
Students will learn basic ink and brush skills while sharpening their ability to see the core gestures in the life forms around them. Bonsai trees and koi fish will be some of the subjects as students explore mark making with various brushes, including "wild ones" hand-made from the fur of squirrel, raccoon and coyote. All painting materials will be provided.
for information and reservations: www.niwa.org/calendar | (619) 232-2721 x105
