I have participated in art festivals and fairs for eight years. The first time I applied I had to borrow Pro-Panels from a fellow artist to create a ‘Booth Shot’, required to apply to the juried art festivals. I set the panels up in my front yard with my art hung in them and created a ‘Booth Shot’ photo. After my very first festival, The Bellevue Art Museum Art Fair and Festival, I was able to buy my own Pro-Panels I had so many sales! It was exhilarating and validating as an artist to have success right off. I only...
You're invited to a solo show of my work at Dodson's Fine Jewelers and Gallery, 516 W Riverside Ave, Spokane, WA. Please join me for an Artist's Reception, Friday, Nov. 4th from 5 pm to 8 pm. The show runs through the month of November 2016.
"Arashi", the title translates to the word 'Storm' in Japanese, is a large 60Hx72Wx2D three panel triptych. This piece is headed to a fine home in Las Vegas, NV. I can create this piece as a diptych, triptych, quad, or simply as a one piece.
In my artwork, I strive for an artistic style characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory impressions rather than the re-creation of objective reality. I aim to capture a momentary, sensory effect – the impression an object makes on the eye in a fleeting instant, art that does not necessarily rely on realistic depictions. What the eye perceives and what the brain understands are two different things and I seek to capture the former - the optical effects of light or the passage of time and so on. I think it is hard...
I am mounting one of my archival pigment giclee prints from my 7600 Epson wide format printer. I use a safe adhesive from Glue Safe company to adhere the print to the custom box mount.