Dennis Dobbs

Following 40 years as an educator, Dennis devotes time to his passion for creative exploration and artistic expression. He has been inspired and tutored in artistic techniques of applying resins on canvas by master San Francisco Bay Area artist Cynthia Schuman.

He often creates abstract works outside on the deck of his lakeside home in Wildwood, both to allow dissipation of resin fumes and to permit the heat of the sun to induce opalescence of multiple layers of color on canvas. Images are altered with heat and physical manipulations resulting in colorful ridges, bubbles and cells that are pulled and elongated or compressed to create visually engaging patterns.

His polished surfaces suggest rivulets of hardened color suspended in transparent medium. Multiple layers of enamel pigments, metallic powders, inks and dyes infused in clear resin, both separate and blend, creating luster and beauty of fluid motion and energy.