Majio Paintings

The Seal painting with a gold sky invites us into the ‘seal world,’ not just below the surface but into the beyond. It is a world of vast diversity that ...

Tango Boardgame with Markers-acrylic paint, graphite, decorative paper, found objects and marked tissue paper on canvas. The board game of life, as with tango, metamorphically has ma...

This Diptych Taking Form with a leather-like finish of cold wax with layers of marked tissue paper on wood reflects the theory that all physical form takes place first in consciousne...

Tableau on wood with metallic gold paint sets off an iconic tango embrace. This moment of visceral improvisation requires a deep center axis of balance for each dancer as well as the...

Hierophant with acrylic and cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas is the interpreter of the mysteries with the X-ray of a mouth in her hands. She transmits wisdom from a structu...

Diptych Moloka’i Spirit Dances, Art Graf, monoprint, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. The island natives appear to be part of the earth. With a swinging gait, their body language is ...

Diptych San Miguel Cobblestone, acrylic paint, Art Graf, graphite rubbings, tissue paper on watercolor paper. High heels, boots with spurs, and straw sandals all in personal dialogue...

Diptych San Miguel Comida, Art Graf, graphite, monoprints, tissue paper on watercolor paper, a two-tabled neighborhood eatery wraps tacos in checkered paper. San Miguel de Allende h...

Moloka’i Beach, Art Graf, impasto textures, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. On this island, to prevent us from flying away, there is a sense that our great central sun fastens each ...

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...

Amulet, metal object with rust paint mixed media on wood panel, 2020. Amulet, on a wood panel, applied rust and acrylic paint and mixed media, suggests how an object is precious as i...

Stone Lantern in Tyme II, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. The symbols inherent in the gorintō, the stone lantern, are: the cube (Earth) representing stability, groun...

Diptych Landscape Pogonip-cold wax, monoprints, mulberry paper on canvas, 2025. There are many overlapping histories in the local terrain of Pogonip, a word borrowed from the Shoshon...

Love Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2400. We have all experienced how tyme’s absorption in love has a different quality, whether falling in, worrying over a loved o...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Abstract II: Countries, acrylic paint, tissue paper, graphite on canvas, 2016. Countries’ boundaries do not recognize the Earth’s deep time. Borders come and go faster than rivers an...

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...

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 ...

San Miguel de Allende has a colorful cross-section of life: a contemporary international art community, structures of colonialization, and traces of the pre-Aztec civilization. Indig...

Diptych Lost and Found, graphite, cold wax, tissue, and mulberry paper on Arches, Losing things and finding things is a ritual repeated throughout our days. Sometimes inconsequently...

The Ringmaster is in the guise of a Japanese feudal lord, acrylic paint with cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas. Ever the showman, his lordship’s vision relates to Juvenal, ...

Diptych Ritual Break, cold wax, Art Graf (water-soluble drawing materials) on Rives BFK, there is a definitive break. Breaks are hard, overdue, temporary, or eternal, most often out ...

Throughout Japan, in folklore and theater, the fox spirit as shape-shifter has for millennia exhibited supernatural abilities to bewitch the unwary. Even contemporary admirers will l...

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...

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...

Our Lady, with acrylic paint, cold wax, oil stick, and layers of marked tissue paper, opens up a novel way of relating to materials and creating context with layers of images. Throug...

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...

Experimenting with burlap and plaster on wood with beads, the Medial Woman arose as a catalyst to invite the liminal space. The genre is folk art, putting communication between world...

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...

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...

Living in Japan and working in the various disciplines in the cultural arts, from long-bow archery to the tea ceremony, Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. N...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Silver Shell, acrylic paint, decorative and handmade paper, collage, and found objects, is in the context of paper dolls. There is a sense of an icon wi...

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...

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...

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 ...