Art Bio

Deni has lived in the American Southwest for more than 30 years. For 10 of those years he lived at 9,000 feet at the edge of Indian Peaks Wilderness in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. His art focuses on the environment, people, and spirit. He uses surreal, abstract, and realism styles to convey his life experiences.
   Working with a variety of media his images are represented through etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, earth paintings, drawings, and digital prints & photographs. Deni offers one-of-a-kind art, unlimited and limited editions of prints.

Deni completed his BA in Fine Art with an emphasis in Painting and Printmaking at San Diego State University. He has shown in California, New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Virgin Islands. His work is in private collections throughout the United States. Recent shows range from one person and private viewing, to juried group art shows in Colorado and Virginia.

Deni’s Digital “Nature” Photographs are comprised of many shots of a scene blended into the final image. The images are composed and colour balanced for the mood I’m trying to represent. With the ability to digitally manipulate the image, my aim is to create the feeling of the moment. Some images are direct representations of the scene and images have been merged and balanced only. The images are printed on 100% rag & neutral pH papers made for traditional printmaking and are 200 - 300 grams per sheet- heavy. This gives the images a softer appearance, a printed quality similar to a hand-pulled lithography.

"Spirit" celebrates the joy in execution of repetitious form, line and textures with flow, rhythm, harmony and balance. Some of these images are designed from a Feng Shui perspective of flow and harmony.

Deni did his first “Earth Painting” in 1975 and since then the images have explored primitive symbols, land forms and ocean forms. These focus on mine perceptions and reflections of the land. The images are naturally coloured earth bonded to shaped canvas with inlaids of colour chalk, cooper, brass, simulated gold.

"People" This series of images looks at universal man~ images of people, glimpses of humanity from the edge and near edge experiences.

For several years, Deni worked on a body of work called “A feather is hard to catch”. This is a series of images that signpost a story of questions asked through a vision quest and the events that followed over the past 30 years.