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Tyme Portal II Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Oil, Monoprint

Stone Lantern in Tyme I Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Lanterns open up space and thus tyme for another arena. They, as well, can close it down. A flickering lantern illuminates these tymes as a series of glimpses. Here, the shapes and...
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2010s Other Art Style Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Acrylic, Graphite, Monoprint

Stone Lantern in Tyme II Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The symbol of the stone lantern is the elements: the cube (Earth) represents stability, groundedness, and the physical world. The sphere (Water) symbolizes the formless, fluid nature...
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2010s Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite, Monoprint

Medial Woman with Frog
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Edged with beads the rough wood plank is covered with burlap then plaster to give a leathery look. Encaustic wax layers elements together as the Medial Woman goes about her business....
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Burlap, Plaster, Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Wax, Acrylic

Artifacts of Various Realities-Tray 3 Small objects on wood provoking new storie
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Crows, Red/black Japanese hanafuda gambling card, fertility and silver charms. The worn spot beneath the curved wire asks what’s missing? The format of our stories are reluctant to ...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media

Materials

Silver, Wire

Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 2 Found objects on wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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. Our stories are reluctant to change...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media

Materials

Stone

Artifacts of Various Realities -Tray 1 Found objects on wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Present black crow and frog. Small child hovers suspended above a black bird taking flight. In balanced on one side another frog--- as brass hook. On the other side a ritual object s...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media

Materials

Adhesive, Found Objects, Graphite

Mix-media Series: Frog at the Bridge-acrylic paint, copper, found objects, wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Patinaed copper frog reaches the end of a long suspension bridge. Transformation indeed is often facilitated by connecting an expanse presenting a until now unconceivable. These mix...
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

Mix-media Series: Nest-acrylic paint on rough wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on rough wood, a great hand holds an egg containing a nest. This image disrupts the linear causality inviting wholeness and a chance to step outside habitual causality....
Category

2010s Other Art Style More Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Mix-media Series: Seeds-acrylic paint with ribbon, silver beads on wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Seed-like slips of engraved silver on rough wood seek a place to grow. From a knothole a silky material peeks out inviting possibility. These mixed media pieces with found objects o...
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Silver

Sentinel at the Border Graphite and paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Vast frontiers require a watchful eye, be it the terrain of the physical world or the world of ideas. This image calls us all to the edge of the unknown, inviting us to recognized wh...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Graphite, Monoprint

Evening Return-acrylic paint, graphite and paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Graphite marks, alternately black and silver suggest night creeping up on a woman. Across all time and culture, she is returning home at the cusp of dark. Her duties and adventures u...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Graphite

Jaws of Challenge-Acrylic paint with paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Jaws of Challenge depicts a tiny boat at sea---like us. Falling in a dream or teetering on a ladder, pivotal moments shout fundamental beliefs as to whether the universe is safe or n...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Wax, Acrylic, Graphite

Playing with Holes Acrylic paint with handmade paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A fundamental kind of play is fingering apertures--- mouth, nose or ear, holes in the sand. These suggest a fundamental archetypal exchange with the physical world. These small pai...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Playing with Arms
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Just as an infant is amazed by toes and fingers this woman, in a private moment, considers her arms in a new light. Moments like this through new light on everydayness. These smal...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Playing with Surf-Acrylic paint with handmade paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This woman is caught with her hands in the ocean surf, playing. Perhaps she stands at the kitchen sink, a baby’s crib or at the shore---creating in contemplation. This series of s...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Tower acrylic paint on wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The tower symbol of both destruction and transformation points to spiritual insight and self-reflection. This tower is very much alive, offering energy for the observer to seek persp...
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2010s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Japanese Scare Crow acrylic paint on wood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Dressed in a kitchen smock and sunhat the scarecrow stands fiercely accompanied in the field by the traditional repetitive knock of a bamboo pipe filling and emptying with water to f...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Diptych Landscape Poponip Cold wax, monoprints, mulberry paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
There are many overlapping histories in the local terrain of Pogonip, a word borrowed from the Shoshone language. The land in Santa Cruz still houses one of the first women’s polo cl...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Diptych Ribs of Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Although ribs infer structure, biological or even geological, we are taking time out of the world of constructions to perceive the poetics of tyme through form. Albert Einstein sa...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Diptych Tyme Before Time Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
There has always been an interval of movement in space, the marking of sun and seasonal cycles has been presented as time and yet feeling into a prehistorically carved stone there is...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Tyme of Revolution Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Culture binds values, meaning and history through time with symbols. In these images flags and gasmasks present a flow of humankind, both personal and collective, including radical ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Revolution in Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, transfer on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Revolution can be an orbit or gyration, an uprising or insurrection---but all require movement in space/time. The transfer image in this piece evokes memory of cultural revolution fa...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Love Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
We have all experienced how times absorption in love has a different quality whether falling in, worrying over a loved one or immersion, showing us how tyme is created by our percept...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil, Monoprint

Tyme Generator Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Materialistic societies generate time by manufacturing efficiency to result in productivity. But in reality we are free to creatively generate all kinds of time- time of day, time o...
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2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Tyme Capsule Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Monoprint

Fox and Dragonfly Monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The original image of this painting, Fox on Gold, underlines the fox image has been woven through my work for decades. In the spirit of haiku-mind, monoprintng brought forth the inv...
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2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Dancing with Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Dancing is sometimes to time, through time and in time, distinctions that are not realized but embody the multiple aspects of tyme. Albert Einstein said, People who believe in ph...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Playing with Tyme Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Until we impose time structure on children they have a deep connection to the present moment-Their play is an earnest endeavor where they become what they play where their perception...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint, Canvas

Plumb Line Series # III Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick with found object
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Plumbline Series offers a navigation principle that discerns the difference between axis and plumbline. A plumbline is in relation to the earth, a vertical line defined by gravity bu...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Plumb Line Series #II Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick with found object
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Plumbline Series offers a navigation principle that discerns the difference between axis and plumbline. A plumbline is in relation to the earth, a vertical line defined by gravity bu...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Found Objects, Wax, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Monks Series III Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monk Series began with flashes of mendicant monks in Japan, South Korea and Hare Krishna monks prevalent in coastal cities of California since the 60’s. The practice of these mendica...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Tissue Paper

Layers of Reality: Peonies Cold wax, monoprint, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Haiku-mind, being of the ancient Japanese poetic form, is traditionally a tool in which acute observation “brings in the moment” as a springboard juxtaposing the universal. This agel...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wax, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Layers of Reality: Fox with BeesAcrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil paint
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The first layer of this reality is a sweet red-haired woman. In the next layer she looks out from a two headed fox figure composed of road maps with the sound of bees humming. Placed...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite

Plumb Line Series I Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick with found object
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Plumbline Series offers a navigation principle that discerns the difference between axis and plumbline. A plumbline is in relation to the earth, a vertical line defined by gravity bu...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Monk Series II Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monk Series began with flashes of mendicant monks in Japan, South Korea and Hare Krishna monks prevalent in coastal cities of California since the 60’s. The practice of these mendica...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media

Materials

Wax, Oil, Handmade Paper, Tissue Paper

Layers of Reality: Pogonip Diptych Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Series Layers of Reality: After working with the first the monk series, I was ready to explore possible realities the tissue paper-cold wax technique new perceptions invite by layeri...
Category

2010s Aesthetic Movement Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Mixed Media, Wax, Handmade Paper, Monotyp...

Layers of Reality: Kokopelli Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Layers of Reality Series is a practice of dropping down beneath what we perceive as the reality into another stream of information. It is a simple inquiry to invite a new perspective...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Mendicant Monk/Woman Warrior-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword becomes a traditional monk still seen in the streets of Kyoto with rounded hat and begging bowl. The over-layered images ex...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Monks Series: Monk I-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Layers of Reality Series is a practice of dropping down beneath what we perceive as the reality into another stream of information. It is a simple inquiry to invite a new perspective...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: One Who Sees Through 2023 -Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
One Who Sees Through Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick has the vision to enter thresholds. There are Taoist glyphs of magic to open those doors where sh...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Ancestors: JoyFool-Cold wax, tissue paper & oil stick on acrylic paint
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
JoyFool, with acrylic, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper and oil stick, evolved from the fool as I inquired into the difference between joy and happiness leading to the insight th...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Jaw of the Ancestors-Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprint, tissue paper & oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors are lined up through instructional patterns. Above them ravens fly into a skeletal mouth opening of a cave. Diamonds arise from the ancestors at attention below. Ancestors...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Ancestors: Moon Drummer-Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper & oil stic
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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....
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: Bird-Woman - Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint &
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Bird-Woman acrylic, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper and oil stick embraces polarity manipulating the strings that look to be the x-ray of a mouth. A toy top swirls in her cape, ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: Ringmaster Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint monoprints
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This painting of acrylic and cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas, Ringmaster, is in the guise of a Japanese lord. The ringmaster is ever the showman with his vision on circus ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors Ascending cold wax, oil paint and printed paper on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors is a series using cold wax, oil stick and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints. The series explores, through transparent layers of overlapping images, the subtle ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Monoprint

Figures II: Bow at the Frontier-acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures in acrylic paint on canvas are connected to the spirit world through animals, folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Ancient One-Acrylic painting, tissue paper monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Hierophant Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint & paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Portrait of Other, acrylic paint and monoprint on canvas takes place in a major threshold. Looking through the threshold into a portrait of someone, or something somewhere that is no...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors at the Threshold-Cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, acrylic paint
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors at the Threshold with cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas tells of the intersection of worlds where directions are altered, going forward and going back. It presents...
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Portrait of Other-Acrylic painting, tissue paper, large monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors, is a series using cold wax, oil stick and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints. The series explores, through transparent layers of overlapping images, the subtle...
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Diptych Ancestor in Transit-Cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This diptych, Ancestor in Transit, shows ancestors journeying and pausing in their journey with their small traveling bundles. The backdrop is the liminal space between worlds evokin...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Shield-Cold wax oil stick, graphite, tissue paper, attached brass piece on panel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Shield, with oil paint and laminated cold wax layers of marked tissue paper, captures a sense of the protection of the everyday world from our awareness of other realms of reality. T...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

Materials

Brass

Figures II: Women Fold-timeless family of women on canvas, large acrylic format.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These women are from my family but are also from many cultures and other times. They are held together with calmness and devotion as they stand in a field of lavender. In the series...
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2010s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figures II: Bear with Leia
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Princess Leia surprised me, by showing up with my customary bear guardian. She is a strong female symbol in popular culture, representing courage, leadership, and defiance against op...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figures II: Shaman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Shaman, acrylic on canvas, in a broad stance manipulates the nine boxes seeming to float in the air. This is an archetypal presence of the one who gets information from the beyond, s...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figurative I Guardian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Even in modern day Japan the relationship between the physical world and one of the spirits is complex. Demons or yōkai are not inherently good or bad, but rather encompass a wide ra...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figurative II Conjuror
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures are connected to the spirit world through animals via folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects of ourselves. The Conju...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figurative I Bedouin Angel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This image came from the experience of a waking dream where through auditory hallucination of a repetitive slap of a tent flap in the wind the image of the Bedouin Angel appeared. ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

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