Majio Art

With a folk-art flavor, burlap and plaster on wood with beads, Medial Woman in a Moment is captured in contemplation, held together with encaustic wax like a backyard icon. Medial Wo...

The Tibetan dorje, a ritual object in Tibetan Buddhism, symbolizes indestructibility and irresistibility while a crow peeking out from behind the Japanes...

Stone Lantern in Tyme I, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. In the metaphor of lanterns of light, they open tyme/space, but they can also close it down. A flickering la...

Skateboard Series: Underfoot II: acrylic, cold wax, graphite, and collage depicts how the surface of sound travels up through the soles of the feet, through the body to the imaginati...

Skateboard Portal II, paper, linen, fiberboard, acrylic, cold wax, graphite, textured collage narrows the world to a portal of chance with the hope of transcendence.

Skateboard Portal I, paper, linen, fiberboard, acrylic, cold wax, graphite, textured collage depicts an entryway to a world of adventure and accomplishment, edged by disaster.

Diptych Ribs of Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Ribs infer a biological or even geological structure. In this study, we are taking time out of the world of co...

Mixed-media Series: Frog at the Bridge-Acrylic paint, copper, found objects on wood. Patinaed copper frog reaches the end of a long suspension bridge. Like many transformations facil...

Crows, Red/black Japanese hanafuda gambling card, fertility and silver charms. The worn spot beneath the curved wire asks what’s missing? In this five-piece mixed-media series on wo...

Sentinel at the Border Graphite and monoprints on canvas. Vast frontiers require a watchful eye, whether in the terrain of the physical world or the world of ideas. This image calls ...

In Woman Playing with Holes, acrylic paint and handmade paper on canvas, a fundamental kind of play by fingering apertures, mouth, nose, ears, holes in a tree, or in the sand, sugges...

Revolution in Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Revolution can be an orbit or gyration, an uprising or insurrection. All require movement in space/time...

These works reflect the animism of Japanese culture and Zen training. Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply in...

Abstract II Absence of Impetus, Acrylic paint on canvas. Impetus denotes the transmission of power from mover to moved. Want of impetus is not necessarily a lack of impetus. L...

JoyFool with acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, and oil stick, evolved from an inquiry into the difference between joy and happiness. This led to the insight that h...

Monks Series, # I, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025. Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no single re...

Ancient One, acrylic paint and monoprint on canvas is staged with fluttering gingko leaves, the oldest living tree species predating dinosaurs. The central image is hand to mouth---h...

Guardian Bear with Blue Wings, acrylic on canvas from a retreat in Ojo Caliente Hot Springs in New Mexico, brought forth this protective presence that has lingered ever since. Unperc...

After living and working in the various disciplines of Japanese culture from long-bow archery to tea ceremony Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. No longer p...

Figurative I Bedouin Angel, acrylic on canvas, 2017. This image came from a waking dream. Through an auditory hallucination of the repetitive slap of a tent flap in the wind, the ima...

In Japan, the fox or kitsune, even in modern day, is a disorienting shape-shifter who causes one to lose their way. A comment in downtown Kyoto on an exquisitely dressed woman may in...

Living in Japan and working in various disciplines in the cultural arts, from long-bow archery to the tea ceremony, Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. No lo...

Figurative II Series, acrylic paint on canvas, brings forth the spirit world through animals, folklore, myth, and dream. The archetypal figures, aspects of ourselves, reveal layers o...

Abstract II: Bow to the Frontier, acrylic paint, tissue, decorative paper, and impasto textures, on canvas, 2010. Bow to the Frontier acknowledges the border between thresholds and t...

The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...

Garments can represent status, power, religious covenants, identity, and self-expression. Garment's nonverbal communication creates our perceptions of gender, age, ethnicity, profess...

In Instruments Waiting, acrylic paint, gold, and rust, handmade paper with tissue paper conjure a sense of something found in an ancient site, yet to be identified. These instruments...

Tree Disrobing on Santa Cruz Beach- acrylic paint on canvas- on a windy surf worn beach cliff, a tree’s whole body slowly reveals itself. Exposing something we have knowledge of but...

Tango Boardgame Series: Setting Up the Game with acrylic paint and decorative paper on canvas. As in the beginning of a boardgame there is a sizing up. Also in tango, a gentle initia...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

EEncaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images f...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

This diptych, Markings, with a leather-like finish of cold wax and layers of marked tissue paper on wood, reads as an ancient surface immersed in the markings of time. Fragments of m...

The encapsulation of time takes a variety of forms---memories, movies, objects in space, history---but even more technological aids like video or recordings that demonstrate a passag...

Graphite marks, alternately black and silver, infer night creeping up on a woman across all time and culture. She is returning home at the cusp of dark. Her duties and adventures und...

Jaws of Challenge -sumi ink, acrylic, graphite, stained col wax, paper on canvas-depicts a tiny boat at sea---like us all. Falling in a dream or teetering on a ladder, pivotal moment...

Triptych Boat with Spirit Winds, graphite, monoprint with cold wax on 3 panels. A lone boat flanked by symbolic spirit winds comforts the highly superstitious sailors and fishermen, ...

Less literal than the other trays, Tray #5 presents a brass knob, turtle talesman, trinket of a vessel and an esoteric tool---possible implement in a fairytale. In this five-piec...

Tyme is in another arena than time, for you can borrow it, do it, nick it, mark it, lose it, kill it, take it and make it. It has distance and direction, breadth and texture as it be...

Frog/goddess of transformation is flanked by a single bean believed to carry the souls of ancestors to connect with the past and ensure lineage. In this five-piece mixed-media series on wood...

Small child hovers suspended above a black bird taking flight. In balanced on one side a brass hook frog, on the other side a ritual object suggesting a strategy game of duality unit...

Nest, acrylic paint on rough wood, 12” X 26” X 1”. A great hand holds an egg containing a nest. This image disrupts the linear interconnection, inviting another arena of wholeness an...

Seeds, acrylic paint with silk ribbon, silver beads on wood, like slips of engraved silver on rough wood, seek a place to grow. From a knothole, a silky material peeks out, inviting ...

Tower acrylic paint on wood. The symbol of the tower is both destructive and transformative, pointing to spiritual insight and self-reflection. This tower is very much alive, offerin...

Japanese Scarecrow-Acrylic Painting on Wood. The feminine guardian dressed in a kitchen smock and sunhat as a scarecrow could easily be accompanied in the field by the traditional re...

Diptych Tyme Before Time, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. There have always been intervals of movement in space. The marking of sun and seasonal cycles has been pres...

Tyme of Revolution, cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Within history, culture binds values and meaning to time through symbols. These images of flags and gas...

Tyme Generator, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Materialistic societies connect time to productivity. In another layer of reality, we are free to creatively generate...

Tyme Capsule, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. The encapsulation of time takes a variety of forms with technological aids like cameras, video, and recordings that pac...

The original image, Fox on Gold, confirms how the trickster fox appears throughout my work for decades. In the spirit of haiku mind, I carried this image with curiosity for weeks, as...

Dancing with Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Embodied in the multiple aspects of movement, we dance to tyme, through tyme, and in tyme People who believe in ...

Playing with Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Until we impose time structure on children, they have a deep connection to the present moment. Their play is an ea...

Monks Series, # III, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025. Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no single ...

Fox with Bees 2025 Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas. The first layer of this reality is a sweet red-haired woman. In the next layer, she looks out from a two-...

Monks Series, # II, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025, 24 Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no sing...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax to create transparent layers with oil paint over ...

An ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword becomes a traditional monk still seen in the streets of Kyoto with a rounded hat and begging bowl. The over-layered images ...

One Who Sees Through, on canvas with acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick has the vision to enter thresholds. There are Taoist glyphs of magic to open thos...