Ron L. Milhoan
Tour Stop Number: 9Category: Drawing, Mixed Media, and Painting
Website: http://www.ronmilhoan.com/
Email: ronmilhoanart@gmail.com
Phone: 505-685-4104
Mixed Media, Oil and Acrylic Paintings and Assemblages
I’ve painted myself into this landscape. Visualization brings focused outcome. It is essential to put oneself into a frame of mind which is close to prayer. When one experiences and identifies nature’s rhythms and patterns through empathy and keen visual awareness, the act of painting is a collaboration of imagination and memory. Hopefully the mysterious appears. In retrospect, my growing up in the plains of Nebraska with its open spaces and dramatic seasonal change was a metaphor of the cycle of life shaped my visual aesthetics and sense of place. Those impressions never left me. New Mexico spoke to me with its primal exposure of the strata of line, vistas of light and other-worldliness, yet familiar.
This place inspires wonder and transcends the ordinary. I feel not only a park of nature; i am closer to the creator. By connecting with the ever evolving landscape, I feel in harmony with the earth. Creating light and luminosity in paintings is my self portrait.