2D ARTWORK
THE RALEIGH GARDEN SERIES
The Raleigh Garden Series is an emerging response to Raleigh’s culture and location at the nexus of the Piedmont and the coastal lowlands.
DESERT GARDEN SERIES 1981 - Present
The Desert Garden Series alludes to the walled paradise gardens of the Islamic tradition and to the modest, early residential gardens of my Bay Area Modern mentors, Robert Royston and Garrett Eckbo.
“In desert lands, the oasis is typically viewed as a kind of paradise, a respite from the parched land and withering sun.”
Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. (2001). Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (p. 103). New York: Abrams.
“The creation of a garden… becomes something halfway between the making of a painting and the making of a house.”
Royston, Robert. As quoted in: Pepper, Steven C. (1948). “Introduction to Garden Design.” Landscape Design (p. 5). San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art.
EVENING GARDEN SERIES
"Evenings are the beautifully sweet spot between the harsh light of the day and the dead darkness of night."
Anonymous retrieved June 10, 2020
From: https://www.wiseoldsayings.com/evening-quotes/#ixzz6P43vyz4w
HOMAGE SERIES
This series pays homage to three mentors: Mary Abbott, Peter Busa, and Harry Nadler.
“It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.”
Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press
DESERT GEOMETRY SERIES
“The desert is, for me, a metaphor of that place where the human being reaches into his [her] own being, opens it up so that it can be pierced by truth. It is a place of solitude and contemplation. The studio is one such place and my painting is an act of contemplation.”
Hoversten, Mark Elison. (1981). An Idea, An Object, and A Place (p. 11). Albuquerque, NM.: University of New Mexico. Master of Arts in Art Thesis.
WHITE GEOMETRY SERIES
“Life was not meant to be free from contradiction or ambiguity.”
Gould, Stephan Jay. (1989). Wonderful Life (p. 257). New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
MEETING MINUTES
From quick sketches in meetings to outdoor landscapes, these sketchbook pages come from several journals compiled, collected, and curated over the years.