southwest ancient desert
In northern Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, there is a layer of earth they call “Chinle” meaning ‘Where all things come together.” We know it as the painted desert, and is a layer of the magnificent Grand Canyon, but revealed here on the surface of the earth. Quiet, peaceful, ancient – magical.
Soul Storm
“Soul Storm” 30″ x 40″ Oil on canvas, framed. $5,750 For all those who live in northern Arizona, the miracle of a storm is hard to imagine. The air is dry in this area and so when a storm rises up and rain comes down, you can smell the rain for miles. Flash floods of…
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Betsy’s Formation
“Betsy’s Formation”. 22″ x 28″ Original Oil on canvas, framed. $2,950 In Flagstaff, Arizona I had a neighbor who had the most beautiful pastel rendering of this brilliant desert formation captured by his artist friend, Betsy. After my own adventure of over a year painting this part of the Navajo reservation, I never actually saw…
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Ancient Symbols
“Ancient Symbols” 20″ x 24″Oil on canvas. $2,300 When visiting the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona, you can’t help but feel the ancient history of the land. All those who have come before, all those who live on the land now, and all those who will come in the future. Even through that timeline, these…
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Spirit Spring
“Spirit Spring” 16″ x 20″ Oil on canvas, framed. $1,500 The Navajo’s sacred source of water, their only source of water except for rain. This spring is used to water and irrigate their crops of sacred corn and other eatable plants. This painting was done deep in winter when the sage and other range plants…
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At Peace
“At Peace” 16″ x 20″ Oil on canvas, framed. $1,500 Mid-day on the Chinle is quiet, peaceful and calm. The colors of the minerals in the layers aren’t easy to see at that time of day, and the tint of the morning sun often touches the clouds that rise up early to begin the summer…
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Dine’ Spring
“Dine’ Spring” 20″ x 24″ Oil on canvas, framed. $2,300 Right in the middle of the Navajo (Dine’) reservation desert is this miracle spring that the Navajo use for all their irrigation, including corn, one of their important staples. This painting captures a part of the spring that has been captured in a deep, hand…
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Brilliant Abundance
“Brilliant Abundance” 16″ x 20″ Oil on canvas, framed. $1,500 The Chinle formation on the desert in northern Arizona gets it color from ancient minerals in the soil. Petrified wood, fossils, dinosaur footprints all inhabit the mounds of sand and earth, layers upon layers built up over thousands of years. On this day the fan…
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Cotton Candy
“Cotton Candy” 9″ x 12″Oil on canvas. $450 Sometimes in the early morning hours a mist will rise up and make the formations soft and colorful. This painting is more of an expression of the ancient origins in the land of the reservation.
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Hopi Clown In Contemplation
Oil paint on canvas. 14″ x 18″, $1,200. The Hopi Clown Kachina plays an important role in the ceremonial dances on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. He is often depicted with a watermelon because it’s considered a real delicacy, especially in the heat of the Arizona desert, and because it adds color to his…
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Ying Yang, Rock Water
Oil paint on canvas. 20″ x 24″, $2,300. The presence of male and female in nature is one of the universal truths that appears for us to appreciate. The solidity of stone and the fluidity of water is a beautiful melding of Ying and Yang in nature – how the water sculpts the stone, how…
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Innocence
Oil paint on canvas. 8″ x 10″, $400. In meditation we seek simplicity and peaceful quietude. Often in my work I am thinking of someone who would want that in a painting because our lives today are so filled with abundance in information and visual communication. This piece is the ultimate expression of simple, clean…
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Moon over Marvelous
Oil paint on canvas. 24″ x 30″, $2,700. The vast open sky and land of the Western Slope isn’t often thought of as a Colorado landscape, but the joy and freedom that comes from such an open big-sky landscape is incomparable. Low in the sky is a beautiful daylight full moon, blessing the viewer. -…
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First Rain on the Western Slope – 2
Oil paint on canvas board. 8″ x 10″. $450. SOLD. Some of the fields on the Western Slope often turn a beautiful golden color. In the early morning sunlight, clear and clean, you can see bright spots in the gold, with orange and brown tints. With the San Juans in the distance and a building…
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Raspberry Sky
Oil paint on canvas board. 11″ x 14″. $850. Pink and blue sky with reflections in the landscape. High pinyon pine on the western slope, painted from inspiration on the way to Nucla from Montrose. After a rain in the early evening a sunset lit the sky with pink fire. The dirt road I was…
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First Spring Green
“First Spring Green” 20″ x 16″ Oil on canvas, framed. $1,500 In Maryland, the rolling farmlands that get covered in white, winter snow, become lush and spring green right after the now melts and the sun begins to warm the land. Even before the bare trees have the chance to start grow buds, the grass…
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Homestead in Winter
“Homestead in Winter”. 30″ x 24″ Oil on canvas, framed. $3,450 Outside Washington DC there is an apple orchard that has been turned into a Disneyland like experience for city dwellers. It gets very busy during the summer months with cart rides to the apple trees for visitors to pick apples. They have pumpkins in…
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To the Moon
“To the Moon”. 9″ x 12″ Original Oil on canvas, framed. $450 There are many farms in Maryland with rolling green hills most of the year. In the winter, when the snow covers the ground, in between the fields are rows of Oak or Hickory trees grown to slow the wind. In the winter they…
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