fine art and poetry

Most of the work on these pages is available for purchase. Please contact me to arrange.

My art is definitely mixed media. Most of the “paintings” utilize a variety of materials, and I use different materials in different pieces. The images are sorted by technique and in approximately chronological order within the categories. Click on the menus at left to go to that gallery.

In the current conjunction of global emergencies I find it necessary to use my art to make statements about social and environmental justice as well as world peace.

My encaustic painting, “acequia madre” (which is more beautiful in Spanish than the English “main irrigation ditch,”) has been accepted in the 10th Annual “Global Warming is Real” show at the Museum of Encaustic Art in Cerrillos, NM. The theme is Resilience.

Acequias are part of the traditional hybrid Moorish-Spanish-Native American system of managing water that has existed in New Mexico for 400+ years. One part of resilience from global warming seems to me to be returning to managing our resources with respect for the land. Many organizations are fighting to preserve this heritage. https://lasacequias.org/2026/08/09/rocks-sticks-and-soil-tried-and-true-drought-resilience-strategies-with-miguel-santistevan/

The show will be online and in person, opening September 12, 2026. https://eainm.com/events-2/

The above encaustic/collage is titled Fire Air Water Earth. I submitted to last years GWR exhibition, but they chose the other one. I like this one better. I wasn’t able to get a good photo of this piece. The colors aren’t right because the camera I have sees not the top layer of semitransparent beeswax, but the layers underneath.

As a board member of LELA International, I have the privilege of participating in annual art exhibitions in memory of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during World War II. https://www.lelainternational.org/

My submission to the 2026 Nagasaki show. Pastel and acrylic. “It’s better to light a slngle candle than to curse the darkness.”

Ordinarily I shy away from “art” as a product. To me art-making is about the process. When I was a small child I used to watch clothes going around in the washing machine. My mother thought it was pretty funny. I’ve always been fascinated by watching materials interact, whether it is fabric and water or paint and canvas.

There is loveliness in the world, and even terrible things have a certain harmony: light and dark, seemingly good and seemingly bad.

I compose my pieces while listening to music. In the last 5 years it has been mainly Persian classical music, which is full of passion, longing for love, tenderness and harmony.

I offer my art as a contribution to beauty, love and graciousness. I write poetry about nature in the cosmos and within myself. Some of the pieces incorporate the written words when poems and art coincide.

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