Majio Art

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Moon Drummer, acrylic paint base with cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick is an archetypal figure standing in the surf with forests sprouting from her head and shoulders...

With acrylic paint, tissue, decorative paper, and impasto textures, we meet the frontiers and thresholds, metaphoric and literal, that require humility. A Bow is required at the Fro...

Ancestors at the Threshold, with cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas, tells of the intersection of worlds where directions are altered. The possibility of going forward or ba...

Ancestors with a brass shield on a wood panel with oil paint and laminated cold wax layers of marked tissue paper, capture a sense of the protection in the everyday world from what w...

Princess Leia from Star Wars surprised me by showing up with my customary bear guardian. She is a strong female symbol in popular culture, representing courage, leadership, and defia...

Figurative I Guardian, acrylic on canvas, 2015. Even in modern-day Japan, the relationship between the physical world and one of the spirits is complex. Demons or yōkai are not inher...

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

The blackboard formula in the painting Slip-of-Self is a qubit. Qubit, as a non-binary computer, does not function on memory but possibility, not moving only vertically or horizontal...

Blackboard Series arose from an experience of three different images surrounded by a dense blackness of substance that could be marked on and erased like a blackboard. This suggested...

The Seeker leaves the known to discover and explore the unknown. This inner rugged individual braves loneliness and isolation to seek out new paths. Often oppositional. This iconocla...

Figurative I, acrylic paintings on canvas, have an archetypal quality, which initiates transmission through the character. They come from different cultures, times, and moments of ma...

Figurative I, acrylic paintings on canvas, have an archetypal quality, which initiates transmission through the character. They come from different cultures, times, and moments of ma...

Basket is a special kind of container opened at the top, bottom or both. It is woven with natural fibers and can carry fish or fire. As one of the human’s first receptacles no matter...

Crows like ravens are messengers of the other side, bringing timely news not always appreciated. They symbolize change, transformation, and the beginning of something new, requiring ...

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...

Animal II Series acrylic paintings on canvas express the relationship between humans and animals as mediums for diviners, guides, and visionaries. Some show animals in the act of bec...

On wood with a gold background, the small Tango Paper Doll series is informed by several cultural and historical layers. The tabs on the paper dolls suggest the figures can be tried ...

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...

Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...