Hotel Paisano

The "Butterfly Series" consists of approximately 25 prints, ranging from realistic to abstract, from a collection of butterflies and moths purchased over e-bay. A high resolution scanner combined with the top of a saucepan was used to create the "transparency" from which the final prints were created. All prints in this collection are created using a Glycee fine art ink jet printer. I've been fascinated by the patterns on butterfly and moth wings for some time and wanted to find a way to represent them that was both realistic and yet, moved the images in a more abstract direction. The images are matted and mounted with archival materials. Each of the current images is unique and not part of a series although several of them will eventually become part of a limited edition "butterfly portfolio."

Richard

Richard Fenker is a Texas artist who lives in Fort Davis and Santa Fe. His strongest artistic influences came from Picasso, Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams, with whom he was privileged to study in 1976. His traditional black and white landscape photography has been featured in many shows and published in his book on the Big Bend, "Where Rainbows Wait for Rain." Although Richard often uses photography as a starting point for his prints, at heart, Richard is more of an impressionist or abstract realist than a photographer.