New Abstractions

May 23, STILL cold and raining. 5 days now. I have been working, reworking some of my early abstractions from last year. They have gotten so much better... Kind of surprising how much one can keep learning even when one gets older. I am working from my heart, and it's easier now, more direct, than when I had a lot of ideas and worries about it all!!

My studio is in an old elementary school, 801 North Lincoln Drive in Hancock. I love visitors! I am usually there but please call first: 906-370-3183. My hours are erratic.

Locally my work is at the Ziyad Gallery, the Art Center, and in my studio for viewing. In Madison I am still at the Grace Chosy Gallery, and in Petoskey at the Crooked Tree, and now in Ironwood at the Z Place.

Artworks : New Abstractions

The title of this body of work is Meditations. Each one has been a meditation for me.

I began doing this new work early in 2012, but it was a return to work I had learned in college and graduate school and have gone back to periodically. This time it has become an obsession. It satisfies some inner feeling beyond words or images. Each drawing takes many hours, days of work until it reaches the point where it feels "right." This work should not be dismissed with a glance... it is my hope that the viewer will enter into the contemplative spirit in which they were done.