Bill Jehle Projects

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  • leonidas

    Leonidas: Named after the great king of the Spartans elected to defend Greece from the combined armies of Xerxes at Thermopylae in 481BCE. For you, inhabitants of wide-wayed Sparta, Either your great and glorious city must be wasted by Persian men, Or if not that, then the bound of Lacedaemon must mourn a dead king,…

  • superthing

  • some paintings from 2019-2020

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    porsche

  • bergamot metro station

    Connie Mallinson and I applied for some Metro public art contracts. I didn’t get one but she got the final showdown between three other artists. She started on it but the images she wanted to use were way to complicated to get done by the deadline. I had shown her a couple of images I…

  • If You’re From New Mexico

    maybe you would recognize these as some kind of landscape or a memory of swimming in a beautiful ocean.

  • gardens and drive-bys

    These works are free form landscapes, if you will, meaning these are worked in what could be called a free style that allows the image to flow onto the paper without any preconceived idea of what it will look like. Inspired by the quiet and sublime beauty of New Mexico and Southern Colorado landscape and flower…

  • westcliffe watercolors

    Mostly walking around our place, working up a little watercolor sketch, taking a picture, wrapping it up after lunch. One might call it lazy as far as traveling to the scenic wonders of the Sangres and other parts of the Wet Mountain Valley but dramatic landscape features were not what I was interested in that…

  • painted slowly, look slowly

    Here I made (for me) a more elemental expression using the most direct and simplest means possible. Even though I like looking at dense multilayered images I wanted a pulled back, cooler and maybe slightly more elegant image that combined my interest in asian and middle eastern calligraphy, western golden mean geometry, automatic writing and…

  • AutoCAD VAJRAS

    I made a pile of both drawings and paintings based on an abstract conception of human chakra system. I won’t go into what that is-if you don’t know give it a quick google. My drawings (I called them CANDLES) looked kind of like this on the right: I have 30 more or less of these…