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Artist Exhibitions:
Recent Exhibitions:
Pike's Peak East Library,
Colorado Springs, Colorado
June 2006
Ruth Holley Branch (Meeting
Room), Colorado Springs,
Colorado
July 2006...
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Artist Galleries:
"the Purple Avacado" at 12
Ruxton Avenue, in Manitou
Springs,Colorado, has 10 of my
originals. A contempory
gallery that shows local
artists and photographer works
is worth the trip to this
mecca of aesthetic pleasures
and shopping. They go by
appointment only.
I also have prints and
original paintings...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Bellis Enterprises, Colorado
Springs, Co USA
Silent Auction piece "Aspens
in the Rough", Old Colorado
City Library, Co Springs, Co
USA...
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Artist Statement for Gary Snyder
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Every day is a new experience with me and creating paintings is the motivation to have that sense of purpose. I like to use washes and drips, brush strokes in all directions and the effects of a knife on the texture of the canvas. One friend said to me once it looks like I spilled something when I first began a certain painting.
Criticism can be our ally or foe, but the drips and washes flow together to capture that place that brings satisfaction. Using colors that clash together can bring depth or appearence of water, the glazes can create a soothing effect, and some animals I had done photo-realitic is great success to make it come out like a photograph. In my Teepee horse series, I paint the horses much like they would be on teepees, Green horses for bravery, Red for strength, and the landscapes behind them I want to hear the wind in the trees, the leaves falling to the ground, and/or the scent of pines.
I like to keep traditions alive, the world of information around us can swallow up the individual's persona to be caste, a robot instead of human, feeling naught just that things are out of control, but overwhelmed by false expectations and survival to satisfy the jealous, lest they take you down. Try being a Captain with 20 other captains, who you are sent to teach, yet they all are promoted instead of you because you are good, you have passsed on your knowledge, and now others suffer from their arrogance.
The dependence on the earth to the Indians, taken by greed and selfless soldiers who had left a war against each other,....
the horses that led them to battle, another day of life, or experienceing a new wonder of the Earth are my favorite subjects.
I have traveled around the country and explored in tropical Puerto Rico, survived the heat in the Phillipines, swam in Florida to being a kid in Alaska. One time, in army camp, even made a home for 2 months out of an army jeep eating sardines and cracker's and bakerie goods during two freezing winter months between (the then two) Germanys. Even fed the Deer in the SchwartzeWald.
A good way of life vs. much poverty, destitution, oppresion, ocean pollution and destruction, ridiculus daytime talk shows and unrealities, while disease abounds out there.
I have appreciated and studied all man's history, politics, economics, and was good at tactics and warfare, even merging corporate ideologies to seek the good optimistic way.
My favorite renaissance classics have to be John Locke's vision of Utopia, Machevilvanian philosophies, or just the layman vs. Bourgesious philosophies toward the creation of ideas founding this country for life, liberty, and happiness. I would like to feel and see that my paintings bring some pause of relief and peace to it all.
By stroking the brushes colors we can create an emotion; sometimes in the empty lounge chair where my friend once laid by her friends' garden ... the canyon walls with blue skies and clouds floating by the endless tops of the canyons, where ancients looked for strength from the spirits...the lighthouse on a sunny day ...the shadows of snow left on the ground , the sun has melted the rest bringing life, water, and rebirth to the land.
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