Over the last several years I traveled throughout Japan visiting numerous Zen temples, the teahouses and famous historical ruins. My paintings describe the elegant beauty of simplicity and tranquility I found in these places, inspired by the formal exterior and interior structures of the Japanese teahouse as well as the meditative properties of the teahouse ceremony. Nijiriguchi, the title of several of my works, directly translates to mean the threshold or opening of the teahouse. I use Multiple layers of acrylic paint on sheets of paper and then adhere them to a wood panel. Then, using a reductive process, pigments are removed by incising lines and sanding the paint to expose parts of the under layers of color. This technique creates a geometric structure with a subtle sense of space. The viewers eye is drawn into the composition as if entering a structure. Light seems to emanate from within through the exposed areas of submerged color.

Address: 83B Hana Hwy.,Paia, Maui, Hawaii 96779
Telephone: (808) 579 8444
Website: http://www.bigzenphotography.com/