soCurio | art is for everyone

As far back as I can remember, I have understood composition and the principles of art. Then I met an artist/teacher, Ruth Janes, who was a major turning point in my life. While I had always drawn and painted, she was instrumental in helping me focus and develop this desire through technical means. However, her greatest gift to me was opening my eyes to the spiritual in art, the deeper meaning.” This is when I also started working abstractly. At the time I made extensive color charts of all my acrylic colors mixed with each other in three steps. I also mixed them with their complements to create grays and blacks which has resulted in my never using black for a dark as I can get much more lively darks using complements. One of my colleagues says of my art “it touches on the powerful, universal energy that connects man to spirit”. My work is spiritual and centering, told with simplicity, expressing in color and composition what cannot be spoken with words. It embodies the music, harmony, and mystery of the Universe, the underlying energy of our world, the music of being within all things, creating a peaceful, harmonious space wherein one can experience silence, still-point, and oneness with all. Some works are non-objective while others are figurative or abstracted stone shapes.