After the storm in West Texas 1994

Terlingua, Texas is part of West Texas in the Big Bend National Park. A place where you can see beautiful colors and morbid shapes and serenity. An inspiration of life where life is not near. The desert has a lot of life mixed in with danger to one if they are not familiar with the extreme weather patterns of this area.

This area inspired me to create this landscape called, (After the Storm in West Texas 1994). Using textures and colors that describe it's beauty is what drew me to this inspiration to paint and capture the roughness of the hot wind of a hot summer drought.

Now this painting is part of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, Border Region MHMR Conference Center. A gift by Betsy Gill of Laredo, Texas to the state for the center in South Texas.

Altar to San Judas De Tadeo 2011

This 14" x 16" painting on canvas. An altar made with gold, vines and natural fibers creating an oval frame of Saint Jude. This Saint is the patron of most lost causes.
The canvas has been dyed with natural pigments and fibers from south texas.

Looking from Above

Detail (Looking from Above)
Acrylic on canvas. 12" x 12"
After seeing what happens when you go up the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas - this what I came up with, all forms of color coming together...

One afternoon I started to look at landscapes from a new prospective (literally form above). Then I discovered that you don't have to go up 24 stories above ground to see this, just go to Google earth and this is what you will see. Nealy the same image, shapes and forms of color that makes a very modern abstract landscape. What a view, this was my inspiration of doing a landscape from above.

Green is grass, black is tar from buildings, blues are pools of waters and all other colors are other forms of buildings that are seen from above. What an exploration to see from above.

Grass Blades

Grass Blades was created in the 90's when I was influence by all organic forms. This was done on a large roll of paper. The images it self has very organic and fluid like shapes, the 3 half circular forms are worms showing coming from the ground. I was much involved with dirt at time, I would get very messy while creating any art. I would spend lot of my time rolling in the grass to see more of this shapes and forms to create more and explore more.

Grass Blades was acquired by Linda Naltermier and is part of her private collection.