Artist Statement
"Loving to draw all my life there was nothing I wouldn’t try in the art world mediums. I have done oil paint, pencil drawing, and burning on wood.
But I decided to try burning leather to see how that will work, and now I hook on it. Start buying pieces of leather and stretching them over canvas it works but hard to get it flat and not to bounce. When I started glue leather on wood, and it work so well with the hard surface.
With each art piece I can see the small details that will work from burning deep for the bison fur to the light shading of the tee-pee smoke. It takes time and patience in do this, once the HOT tip touches the leather there is no turn back.
I get my ideas from magazine and the internet mixing one photo of the background to the second photo the main subject.
At first in my early work, I just did the burning on the leather and now I have been adding color from soft tints to heavy coats to bring them out or adding a color to their eyes, I starting to like this a little bit more to give the extra WOW factor.
I hope you enjoy the art that I have created."
But I decided to try burning leather to see how that will work, and now I hook on it. Start buying pieces of leather and stretching them over canvas it works but hard to get it flat and not to bounce. When I started glue leather on wood, and it work so well with the hard surface.
With each art piece I can see the small details that will work from burning deep for the bison fur to the light shading of the tee-pee smoke. It takes time and patience in do this, once the HOT tip touches the leather there is no turn back.
I get my ideas from magazine and the internet mixing one photo of the background to the second photo the main subject.
At first in my early work, I just did the burning on the leather and now I have been adding color from soft tints to heavy coats to bring them out or adding a color to their eyes, I starting to like this a little bit more to give the extra WOW factor.
I hope you enjoy the art that I have created."
Touring Schedule
Lake Region Heritage Center
January 1 - 31, 2023
Ellendale Opera House Gallery
October 6 - 27, 2023
Long X Arts Foundation
November 3 - December 29, 2023
The Arts Center
April 11 - May 18, 2024
MonDak Heritage Center
July 31 - August 31, 2024
January 1 - 31, 2023
Ellendale Opera House Gallery
October 6 - 27, 2023
Long X Arts Foundation
November 3 - December 29, 2023
The Arts Center
April 11 - May 18, 2024
MonDak Heritage Center
July 31 - August 31, 2024
PO Box 714, Williston, ND 58802 | (701) 557-9443
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NDAGA is sponsored in part with funds from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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