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February 2012

My time continues to be frequently divided between Utah and California. In late summer I traveled to Maryland and Boston, and got an eyeful of art, architecture, ocean and woodlands. In the fall I had two paintings accepted into the Juried Salon of Logan Fine Art. Terra Nova Gallery’s small works exhibition included two of my paintings in December. I also showed work in the Springville Museum of Art’s Spiritual and Religious exhibition. On Monday March 5th at 6pm at Springville Museum of Art, I will be the guest artist for Community Night, showing and speaking about some of my paintings. Wintering in Utah: hunkering down, making improvements to my studio, and painting.

June 2011

Two of my paintings, "Circinate" and "Pose Without Number", are in the Freedom Festival Invitational through July 28 at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo, Utah. I like the word, “Circinate”, title of my most recent painting; it means to form a ring. I continue to work on circular human figure poses in circular formats along with other yoga contortions.

April 2011

“The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium,” said Kandinsky. I am painting in circles. Renaissance artists knew the dynamic capabilities of the tondo format. The painting surface, three feet across, is to my eye, at once a giant, static dot - and a race track with frantic visual movement around the edge. It is very satisfying to put the brush to this flat, benign shape - a universe in my studio.

March 2011

In February, for the second time, one of my paintings was featured on the cover of Catalyst Magazine, a Utah publication about healthy living (www.catalystmagazine.net).  The painting is Washing, framed in an antique, circular, cast-iron washstand top.  Catalyst is a great little rag with articles on health foods, artists, yoga, the environment, and other contemporary issues.

My painting, Crazy Eight, is currently showing in the Elmhurst Art Museum until March 30, in the National Art Premiere 2011, by the museum’s partner, the Elmhurst Artists Guild (www.elmhurstartistsguild.org).

January 2011

“Postures of Devotion” was my one-person exhibition at A Gallery in Salt Lake City in April. Since May I have traveled to Sedona, Yellowstone, Washington, D.C., Maryland, California, Mexico, Hawaii. My travel heightened my awareness of the impact of peoples and cultures, of miracles of healing and of the boundless visual feasts of art and nature. Over the summer I showed work in the Woodbury Art Museum, and in February one of my paintings will be in the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, Illinois.