Majio Figurative Paintings

Ancestors are lined up through instructional tissue sheets of a dress pattern. Above them, ravens fly into a skeletal mouth opening of a cave. Diamonds arise from the ancestors at at...

The Woman found Playing with Arms, in a private moment as an infant, amazed by toes, she considers her arms in a new light. It is a new perception of everydayness. Small paintings ...

Diptych Tango Paper Dolls with Dog Tags-acrylic paint, decorative and handmade paper collage, found objects, and vintage paper doll. The first image in the diptych is the sensual emb...

This woman in Playing with Surf is caught with her hands in the playful ocean surf. Perhaps she stands at the kitchen sink, a baby’s crib, or at the shore in contemplation, creating ...

Bird-Woman, acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, oil stick on canvas, embraces polarity as she manipulates puppet strings, an X-ray of the mouth. A toy top swirls in...

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...

These women are from my family but are also from many cultures and other times. At this moment, for a birthday, they are held together in calm by the prospect of another year, standi...

Tango Boardgame Series: Alchemic Tango with acrylic paint, cold wax and rust paint and decorative paper on panel. Alchemy is an ancient proto-scientific and philosophical tradition o...

Working from the concept of Haiku Mind had a surprising impact on how this work was conceived. The ancient poetic form of Japanese haiku is traditionally a tool for acute observation...

Ancestors Series, cold wax, oil stick with monoprints and layers of marked tissue paper, explores through transparent overlapping images, the subtle awareness of unconscious influenc...

Moloka’i Dancers, sumi ink, Art Graf, vintage discharged kimono on Rives BFK, 2021. Moloka’i natives, without inhibitions, breast flying, appendages flapping, arise in rhythm through...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax, a transparent layering with oil paint over acryl...

The first layer of this painting was an ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword. The next layer that emerged, influenced by the Monk Series, was the outline of a trad...

Triptych Game of Capture-Collagraph prints on tissue paper with cold wax and oilpaint on canvas. This triptych, printed off the surface of textured shrine panels, depicts the feminin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ancestors, a new series using cold wax, oil stick, and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints, explores through transparent layers of overlapping images the subtle awareness a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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 Series, cold wax, oil stick with monoprints and layers of marked tissue paper, explores through transparent overlapping images, the subtle awareness of unconscious influenc...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...