BIO
"The land holds a story, an ongoing narrative element, that is becoming more apparent to me. For my landscape painting, this is an element I seek to best represent the experience of this land. Years ago, in my landscape painting, I was definitely a representational painter. It's not a bad place to start as the land in northern New Mexico is so uniquely beautiful. Now, I see and feel a poetic element to the painting of it, a manner of approaching it visually that embodies the experience of living with and in this land for so long. I'm adding my experience and voice to the continuous story that is the life of northern New Mexico.
Painting in wax has been a life-altering experience, akin to learning to swim in the middle of the ocean. It is a big medium full of almost infinite approaches and possibilities. For me, it has been a matter of learning what to leave out in order to find and organize what to put in. My studio used to look like an apothecary shop, an herbalist, a grocery aisle, and an imported paper shop all in one as I explored the alchemical incorporative properties that the encaustic process can encompass. After about twenty years of painting with it I am pretty much down to just the wax. Working with the colors, orchestrating them, and using the transparency of the wax for layers and depth. I find this alone satisfying and challenging.
In one word, I am looking for the “Narrative” in painting. There is an interconnectedness to life, all the elements making the whole. The narrative element is the story of this interconnection."
Solo Exhibitions
2021: Globe Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2018: Globe Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017: Globe Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2106: The Globe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2015: The Globe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014: The Globe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012: The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2011: The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2010: The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2009: The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2008: The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2007: The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Group Shows
2007-2008: The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2004-2005: Red Dot Fine Art, Santa Fe NM
2003: Eldridge McCarthy Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Gallery Representation
2006-2012: The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2008-2009: Robert Frazier Gallery, Kansas City MO
2003-2005: Red Dot Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2001-2003: Eldridge McCarthy Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1997-2000: Laurel Seth Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Collections
University of New Mexico -Permanent collection- Albuquerque, NM
Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Lovington Hospital, Lovington, New Mexico
Several purchases by the State of New Mexico for their “Art in Public Places’ program
Over one hundred private collections in the US, England, and Australia
Publications
Clubbe, John: Byron, Sulley, and the Power of Portraiture (Ashgate Publishing 2005)
Rooney, E. Ashley: Contemporary Art of the Southwest (Schiffer Publishing 2014)
Education
University of New Mexico 1976-1981
Recognition
Three time honoree of the New Mexico Acclaimed Artist Series