This painting is at the Attic Gallery in Portland OR. It is an image suggesting the complexity of the foothills of southern Idaho and the intense impact of light falling on their contours.
22 x 33 priced at $1,825.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
"Brushed"
This painting of a small section of the Boise Foothills might not even register as a landscape by a flatlander from the Midwest or a New Englander accustomed to tree covered hills. It could be seen as an abstract painting of weird shapes, but it is actually a fairly reliable depiction of weird shapes found just north of Boise.
20 x 30 $1,500 at Rowe/Lisk Gallery in downtown Boise.
As someone involved in both the visual arts and concert dance, my approach to landscape painting is theatrical. I am drawn to strong color, emotional lighting, and a human perspective.
Idaho is a land with such powerfully evocative landscape that it is a treasure house for a landscape painter. It is why I live here and find never-ending motifs to paint.
Since 1976 I have been a dancer and choreographer. For the past 21 years I am co-artistic director of the Idaho Dance Theatre in Boise, a professional contemporary dance company. I am currently working on my 101st dance.
In 1990, I sheepishly began to explore the visual arts by first drawing and then beginning to paint the Idaho landscape around me to which I have always been unusually sensitive. For some reason, this place feels deeply personal and visually comforting. Starting in 1995, I began a second professional arts career in painting to accompany my career in dance.
These two areas of art making, through their different natures, have given me a balanced life as an artist. Dance, which is a very social art and quite public and intense, contrasts with painting, which is a more solitary pursuit without the hubbub of performances.
Each informs the other for me and each helps balance the excesses of the other.