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Recent work

2007

"Unbroken" This recent body of work has been done from live models in the studio. The work begins with pen and ink line drawings on moleskin paper, most of which have multiple overlapping figures on each page.  These renderings, drawn one over the other, demand a kind of enforced amnesia as it becomes necessary to ignore the previous drawing (which sits obviously upon the page before me) in order to accurately complete the next.  These pages are then mounted to paper or panel over which the oil pastel or oil stick work is done.  This deliberate, moment to moment forgetting continues throughout the image building process till the model has become little more than a source from which to pull energized line and surprising form. The results are these images which have emerged to placed themselves into the world.

2003 - 2006 Artists over the generations have been struck by the sensual forms to be found in our New Mexico landscape. Every vista and canyon seems rich with this feminine reference. As an artist living in Santa Fe, I have spent my career avoiding this all too obvious metaphor. Then came a series of successful prints in early 2002, followed by the “Off The Map” film project which threw me quickly and deeply into this series of figuratively based abstractions. The watercolors and monotypes represented here have been mounted to board and given a deep, honey rich high gloss varnish.

2002 "Off the Map" Film Project Five years ago Campbell Scott approached me about doing the artwork for a movie he hoped to direct called "Off The Map". Over the years we continued to discuss the project. (During the arc of the story the artist character does a 40-foot long watercolor painting on a roll of wallpaper. Twenty years later a retrospective of his work is being held at a Santa Fe gallery.) In June Campbell called to let me know the film was a go for the fall. In the end I had just eight weeks to do all the work. Several prints from earlier in the year were used. Represented here is a complete selection of those paintings, prints and drawings which appear in the film.

1994 - 2001 In 1994 I began a series of paintings, drawings, and prints titled First Planet Studies. This large series of images, dealing with volumes of space presented as tectonic shifts of mass, grew into a formidable body of work comprising several thousand images. Here are two of those paintings, representative of the greater series, that are still available.