The art shown here is part of the “Elemental” series began several years ago with my nature inspired compositions done in Northern New Mexico, where I lived for many years, and have always visited. They are full of surreal geometric and organic forms and language, and vivid colors influenced by the urban and natural landscape, as well as an interior cellular landscape.
The distillation of the series to some of these highly graphic and vivid, almost pulsating canvases, featuring all the elemental motifs, is a major focus over the last few years.
Like many artists, my method for this series is highly conductive, as I find myself in a flow state and simply acting as a conduit or medium to these visions and energy once a seed of an idea, and composition has been planted. Many of the paintings can actually be hung in various orientations because of their organic nature. The work is also influenced by visual artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Roger Brown, Philip Guston, and musicians such as AC/DC, Miles Davis, Zero 7, and others, but mostly the flora, landscape, and atmosphere – of the biology of the earth, and inner workings of my mind.