Women in Cloaks Canvas Print

Beautiful butterflies and moths remind me of women in those lovely silk opera cloaks from early 20th C. designers like Poiret. These women wander gazing in wonder at the clouds of their opulently-dressed sisters flying around their heads. This might be an ideal scene but for the small cat who sits surrounded by the butterflies she has killed.

I live and work in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My perception of things is expressed in a narrative, story-telling form. The style is cartoon-influenced, yet painterly; sometimes refined, sometimes crude. In recent years I have been moving toward a more Cartoon-Realist approach. I want a simpler look, where I can get the utmost expression out of each line, and each brushstroke expresses energy. My influences range from the scenes of everyday life pictured in the margins of medieval manuscripts, Late Medieval and early Renaissance art, Indian narrative folk painting, classic European Surrealism, Latin American Fantastic Realism and Mexican Social Commentary, comics and graphic novels. I draw my subjects from daily life, news stories,...