Please note I am currently on a 2.5 month painting retreat; I return home in early March, 2019 and will be able to fulfill orders and add artwork then. Thank you for your patience.
Deeply moved by natural earth forces, I started this series with a new approach to applying fluid paint to landscapes. It’s become more entrenched then that, with a look at the primordial forces beneath the mountains, trees and oceans. It’s a consideration of the fact that humans can’t control everything, but that we can affect the earth in a profound way.
Something that I need to add that sets this series and other recent work apart: I am determined to let nature and animals loosen me up. I was trained and had a career as a medical illustrator. Nothing could be more wonderful, but more constraining at the same time! I enjoyed the career but my own vision is working its way out, slowly but surely. The freedom is profound but terrifying at the same moment, but when it works, it works.
There is a Manifesto of the earth, and then there is this, a manifesto for the most wonderful creatures of that earth. I’m starting with horses because I ride, except right now I have to have my third surgery on my left leg and can’t ride until the spring at the earliest. If that isn’t on the agenda, then painting my muses is the next best thing.
This series starts with some careful, controlled studies of the anatomy of the horse in a Renaissance style. The plan is to continue the studies, but add in a great deal of looseness and dynamic movement.
I have big plans. Many more animals. All in due time.
12X16”, mixed media on Canson canvas board.
12X12”, acrylic on canvas, framed.
12X12”, acrylic on canvas
11X14”, digital, print.
11X14”, digital print
11X14”, digital print
11X14”, digital print
11X14”, acrylic on canvas
Winner of the national “ArtInPlace” contest, the original was reproduced on a 12 ft. X 24 ft. aluminum billboard; seen by thousands of commuters daily in Charlottesville, VA.
First Place winner of the American Horse Publications Association Illustration Category. On the cover of the United States Dressage Federation “Connections” magazine.
Winner of TED competition (Technology, Education & Design) this illustration was projected on high definition screens throughout the San Diego Conference Center.
Selected by Wine & Country Magazine for cover and inside spreads; also added to the publisher’s collection. 10X10” oil.
Selected by Wine & Country Magazine for cover and inside spreads; also added to the publisher’s collection. 10X10” oil.
Randy Higbee 6X6” competition, Costa Mesa, CA, 2018.
Randy Higbee 6X6” competition, Costa Mesa, CA, 2018.
Randy Higbee 6X6” competition, Costa Mesa, CA, 2018.
2015 Giliola Gamerini Award International Competition, Finalist, University in Florence, Italy.
2015 Giliola Gamerini Award International Competition, Finalist, University in Florence, Italy.
Digital, William H. Benton Museum Selection, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Digital, William H. Benton Museum Selection, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
To the collectors worldwide, my deepest appreciation for your support and encouragement.
This is a sampling of sold works.
