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I'm a lifelong artist who delights in working in various
mediums and techniques. While I focus on meditative Chinese
brush painting and lush, gritty fantasy art, I hesitate
to call myself a fill-in-the-blank artist. I do what intrigues
/ fascinates / inflames / involves, or otherwise entrances
and grabs me with that imperative "gotta do it." That's
what art is all about. Gotta do it. Gotta see it. Gotta
live it.
I've been creating since I could first hold a pen (even
drew critters in my own baby book) and art is important
to me as an essential part of the living experience. It's
a lifelong journey and I'm thrilled when others like (and
collect) my work. It tells me I've reached out and accompanied
them on part of their own life's journey--which is a special
window of time and experience that is both momentary and
infinite. If I'm not drawing, painting, or otherwise expressing
myself (however badly, however wonderfully), I'm not in
harmony with everything around me.
I'm also a Taoist and a lot of my artwork reflects my
spiritual pathway (the art of compassion, simplicity, and
patience). I practice Qi Gong meditation and my brush paintings
are an extension of that meditative process.
I currently live and work in Albuquerque, New Mexico. My
studio is located in downtown Albuquerque. I show at a wide
range of fairs, conventions, and art gatherings across the
state (and I plan to expand to California and Arizona events
in the near future).
I embrace all forms of arts - from poppy, outsider creations
and re-purposed recycle art to traditional "fine" arts,
photography, digital arts, and diversions. For "mental food,"
I draw on a wide range of subjects. I study Eastern religions,
Chinese deities and history, folk tales, world mythology,
and foreign languages--each offering its own tantalizing
plate of material. I'm also deeply involved in the "science
of fantasy"; the exploration of fantastical worlds, creatures,
beings, and new angles of existence. The golden age of illustrators,
modernist poetry, Taoism & Buddhism, modernist poetry, universal
icons and symbols, outsider / lowbrow art, impressionism,
video game imagery, classical Chinese motifs, and even Japanese
animation feed my creative coals.
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