ArtView March 2015 | Page 49

After the Rains in the Desert (2015) of medium), I would set the classroom up with various stations. Needless to say, did not get the job. Anyway, I wanted and needed to reflect something else in my work. Making art is always challenging and it always involves growth. Oddly enough, reflecting upon it now, I returned to search for that balance between my love of the natural world around, a respect for beauty, with the intellectual play of ideas brought into the visual realm. It is almost like I am picking up where I left off in 1981, but with the wealth of experience and perspective that 30 years