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Galleries

Personajes Soñados- Mixed Media

Joaquin Amelia Shaman Chayo Teresita Venado Play Pause

Personajes Soñados are loose process oriented portraits incorporating drawing and painting that emerge from a dark background through layers of mark making and texture.
​They are available as fine art digital prints.

Imagined Identities - Mixed Media Paintings

Desert Wizard - Mixed Media Mascara Espinada - Mixed Media on Paper It was Always about the Longing - Mixed Media There is just no Taming this Wildness Inside of Me - Mixed Media Guadalupe of the Desert - Mixed Media Chili Pepper Hula - Mixed Media Play Pause

IMAGINED IDENTITIES is a series of mixed media paintings that evoke at once a dark yet playful dreamlike quality. Using images from my own photos, they are then painted with acrylic or oil paints that are applied in additive and subtractive layers to reveal emerging imagery that surprises and pushes the imagination beyond logic into the unexpected. What results is a merging of inner and outer realities that form a complex narrative of human relationship to the natural environment.

Hand Colored Linocut Prints

What She Carries - Hand Colored Linoleum Block Print 8”x6” Niña Espinada - Hand Colored Linoleum Block Print 8”x6” Iguanita - Hand Colored Linoleum Block Print 8”x6” Noche de los Colibris - Hand Colored Linoleum Block Print 8”x10” Ambos Mundos - Hand Colored Linoleum Block Print 14”x11” Woman with Bird - Woodblock Print 8”x6” Play Pause

Creating linoleum block and wood block prints is a process that requires thinking backwards to produce a desired image, as well as focusing on the intricacies of design and creating darks and lights. I love the meditative hands on process of carving and the magic of printing and creating hand made multiples from the same image, then hand coloring them so that each piece is unique. The images are inspired by nature filtered through my wild imagination.

Bird Paintings

Hummingbird in Flight/ Colibri Volando Acrylic on Canvas 12”x12” Hummingbird with Hibiscus/ Colibri con Jamaica Acrylic on Canvas 12"x12" Seated Hummingbird/ Colibri Sentado Acrylic on Canvas 8"x8" Hummingbirds with Cactus/ Colibris con Organos Acrylic on Canvas 20"x10" Kiskadee/ Luis Bienteveo Acrylic on Canvas 8"x8" Chickadee/ Mascarita Acrylic on Canvas 8"x8" Play Pause

In our urban environments, birds are the only true wildlife we see on a daily basis. Perhaps we connect with them so deeply because they remind us of our own  inner wildness and the freedom we long for. Perhaps it is the beauty of their form and graceful movement. These paintings are from birds in the US and Mexico and are painted in acrylic on canvas.