My Work is On the Cover of 2 Magazines in November

M! an English language magazine in Mazatlan chose a piece for its First Anniversary Issue. "Intersection II" - The orginal painting is a 7'x5', oil on canvas. www.maz-amor.com




Inquiring Mind is a semiannual journal dedicated to the creative transmission of Buddhadharma to the West. This small, 7" x 5" monotype is part of a series entitled, "Borrowed Forms in Nature" since I have incorporated the work of 19th century illustrator Ernst Haeckel.
http://www.inquiringmind.com/Current.html

Mazatlan's First Fridays Artwalk in Full Swing

The first Artwalk of the Season was this past Friday, Nov. 6. Trevor and I had around 60 people come through the studio. Lots of enthusiasm and interest in our work. It's always a great opportunity to meet people from all over. We had tourists, a few from the cruise ships, snowbirds as well as full-time residents come thru the door. We always serve some refreshments and welcome everyone to studio.

This year the Artwalk has expanded to 24 sites and 41 artists all within walking distance in Centro Historico. Painters, Photographers, Printmakers, Jewelers, Hichol Artists - all kinds of styles and techniques. Here is the website, created by Darian Day, where you can access the map and the participating artists. www.artwalkmazatlan.com La Cultura is the official sponsor and provides the maps and banners. The artists are exposed to the public and have a venue for selling their art while the visitors get a chance to view a wide variety of art - sometimes in studios and homes that they would not have access to. It's a great event!

First Friday of the month, Nov. thru May (except January will be 2nd Friday this year).
4 to 8 pm. Maps can be downloaded from the website or picked up at local businesses in the area.

Favorite places in Mazatlan

El Faro, lighthouse. A great hike .......

Taking a panga to Stone Island.

Isla de Pierdras/Stone Island - our favorite beach.

Centro Historico

The Plaza Machado - a tropical paradise that centers Old Town.

The view from Lupe's Palapa on the Malecon.

My garden & patio

Amazing Crop Circles

You have to take a look at Lucy Pringle's crop circle website. 2009 has produced some amazing images inscribed in the crop fields of Wiltshire County, England. I'm sorry, 2 guys and a board in the middle of the night? I don't think so..............

Lucy Pringle's crop circle website

My Latest Public Art Project in Chico, CA

Bridge Railing design for Lindo Channel

Railing in Process

Mary Gardner, me, & Craig Murray at the bridge site

Craig Murray, Jeff Lindsay & Mary Gardner at Red Hot Metal

Craig Murray testing the metal strength

It's been 5 years since I was invited to create a Master Art Plan for the city of Chico's Manzanita Corridor Reconstruction Project. I offered an overall theme, Weave of Nature/Web of Life, which was adopted to inform all artworks within the Manzanita Corridor.
The bridge railing was the element that we chose as the first project.

And now, Jeff Lindsay of Red Hot Metal, Inc., has started the fabrication! In June, I went up to meet with Jeff to discuss fabrication details. I really enjoyed meeting Jeff and visiting his shop in Chico. I also met with Mary Gardner, the public art coordinator, and Craig Murray, the engineer assigned to the project. We took a look at the first metal cuts that Jeff had in the studio. We also made a site visit to choose the color for the railng - a rusty red- which will be powdercoated.

Los Gatos Museum of Art Exhibition

Me with my paintings

Feng Jin with his sculpture

3x3: 3 Artists - 3 Visions

Glen Rogers, Donna Orme, Feng Jin

June 11 – August 7

Reception: Sunday June 14, 1-4pm

The Art Museum of Los Gatos

4 Tait Avenue on the corner at W. Main St.
Los Gatos, CA 95030
408.354.2646
Open Wednesday – Sunday, Noon – 4pm

Mosaic Project for Marco Polo Park, Mazatlan

Marco Polo Park is a park and play area specifically for children with disabilities designed by Recrea, a group of architects in Mazatlan. Fanciful swings and slides, interactive walls, walkways of colored glass are designed and waiting to be constructed with the help of the Rotary Club of Mazatlan.
Leticia Alvarado Fuentes heads the project and has the enthusiasm to see it happen.

Because of my past community based public art in the San Francisco Bay Area, I offered to design an element to involve the community. The mosaic project - Circles of Nature - was a way to offer the neighbors of the park, as well as the users and families of the nearby Educational Center, a way to get involved in the Marco Polo Park project. The Rotary Club used it as a kick-off project for their community work day which also featured tree-plantings, lunch and presentations.

Circles of Nature consists of 2 sizes, 9" and 6" circles, all with a nature theme. We brought buckets of broken tiles and various leaves and flowers for inspiration from the area. Everyone - kids, adults and whole families - were invited to create the colorful circles. They will be installed in benches and walls around the park.