Sometime in the 80’s my father, Robert C. Winsett, was stricken by a strange flight of fancy and he did a series of very odd and often ill humored birds. These three are, of course, the original angry birds. My wife Lisa and I were living in Hawaii when he penned the...

This amazing mouth painting was inspired by a psychedelic experience the artist had on Salvia divinorum. Mo is the oldest son of our much loved old friends and neighbors in Hawaii. From his bio: Moses Kai Hamilton aka Mo is a very talented, passionate and inspiring...

Here is mom’s wonderful wolf mandala. Pat McReynolds (mom) painted two large animal mandalas, the backgrounds of which were used on this blog. I posted the mountain lion or cougar mandala on this website about a year ago. In her 80s, she loved commemorating endangered...

Here is another oil painting by mom, Pat McReynolds, after visiting relatives in Norway. As an art history professor, she was always working when she traveled. She was fully engaged not only with family but the landscape, the history, the people and the culture. She...

Cliff McReynolds, my step-father and American visionary artist, painted this surreal landscape with oil on Masonite in 1976.  Per his website cliffmcreynoldsart: “As evidenced by his inclusion in Who’s Who in American Art since 1978, Cliff McReynolds has been an...

This is a pastel by mom, Pat McReynolds. Being half Filipino and half Norwegian, born of immigrant parents, she was drawn to the Native-American culture here in the United States. But being an art history professor, she was fascinated by the art and culture of all...

Here’s another example of the beautiful and authentic-looking Native American style pottery that Mom (Patricia McReynolds) hand built. As noted, she had the unusual opportunity to spend summers on the Navajo reservation in Arizona learning Native American pottery...

This one is very poignant to me. It’s an unfinished oil painting by mom, Pat McReynolds. It’s the last painting that was she working on at the time of her death. This is the painting that she wanted to get back to work on as she was lying in her hospital bed. She was...

This drawing was included in a series of 13 drawings in a collection titled “arcana A heterogeneous collection of enigmatic drawings by Robert Winsett for the discriminating collector of potpourri.” I’ve always liked this drawing of my dad’s a lot, partly because the...

Here’s a yellow hibiscus in oil by mom, Pat McReynolds, in abstraction. After she died in 2014, Cliff offered me her easel, but I already had my own. In retrospect, I should’ve taken hers. I suspect it would have given me inspiration. He gave me her paint brushes...

Mom (Patricia McReynolds) spent summers on the Navajo reservation learning Native American pottery making and teaching children’s hand-building ceramics classes. Here’s an example of a beautiful piece she made – it looks authentic! What a unique experience it was for...

Mom (Patricia McReynolds) was influenced by Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings, as seen by her many large flower pieces such as this night-bloomer but then presented in her own abstract style. Her drive to create was inspiring. She just never stopped creating.  Aside from...

Cliff just completed this gorgeous oil painting of me (when I was in my early 20s), as a ‘thank you’ to Kip for work done on his website: CliffMcReynoldsart. Cliff’s a master at capturing the lighting, but of course I’m one of his biggest fans! He’s spent a great deal...

This beautiful oil painting was completed in 1972 by my step-father, Cliff McReynolds, American visionary artist. Last year my husband Kip and I were watching a Netflix movie called Song To Song, directed by Terrence Malik and filled with movie stars: Ryan Gosling,...

Here’s another beautiful sculpture this time in wax by mom, Pat McReynolds, of her husband and my step-father, Cliff McReynolds, American visionary artist, as a Renaissance artist!

Here is another lovely painting by mom, Pat McReynolds, focusing on white lilies.  She took great joy showcasing various flowers in her unique contemporary style and composition.  Painting was so much a part of her life that at the time of her death she said all she...

Mom made this beautiful clay sculpture of me. She used different media over the years for her sculptures including clay, wax, paper mache, plaster and bronze. Her subjects were usually family members but she also created a religious figure for Christ The King...

Oil painting by mom, Pat Justiniani McReynolds.  This is one in a series of paintings showcasing trumpet flowers in her unique style using a modern interpretative composition in the softest complementary colors.

This minimalist piece was part of an art therapy series focusing on primary colors, utilizing paper and oil paint on canvas.

Mom created this oil painting after having a psychedelic experience in her 70s!  She was hiking in the desert and accidentally pricked herself on a cactus which apparently enhanced the mirage effect.  Even in desolate surroundings, she was inspired to reproduce...

I  made this ceramic plate using white clay first rolled into a slab at a ceramics class I took with my mother at Mira Costa College in San Diego County; this class focused on hand-building styles, not the wheel.

Here's my meditation mandala.  Typically I meditate with eyes closed to visualize internally and focus on the breath but created this mandala for grounding external visual focus.

Photographs of oldest son Mica and granddaughter Annabelle sleeping were printed on bits of torn textured tissue papers for this dreamy collage.

This sunflower is the sister painting to the dandelions by mom, Pat McReynolds.  It is one of several artworks that she created toward the end of her life in 2014, showcasing various flowers and animals.  The use of metallic gold paint was a new effect for...

Mom, Pat McReynolds, created two large animal mandalas, this cougar and also a wolf, the background images of which were also used for creation of this blog website.  In her 80s, mom focused her art on memorializing endangered species of animals, insects, plants and...

This is an oil painting that mom, Pat McReynolds, painted after one of her trips to Norway.  Her father Jose (Grandaddy) was from the island of Negros in the Philippines and her mother Ruth (Nana) was from Norway.  Mom loved to travel, visiting the Philippines and...

Following art therapy principles, inspired by Rothko, using bright red and green complementary colors, I was looking to achieve a different effect like a weaving.

Here’s my copy of The Dance by Henri Matisse – everyone has their own style of course but copying the masters is one way to learn how to execute a particular art style … I love the symmetry and simplicity - the image evokes such exuberance in its...

This beautiful painting by mom, Pat McReynolds, focuses on the dandelion.  It is one of several paintings that she created fairly recently prior to her death in 2014, showcasing various flowers and animals.  She used new techniques and media, including the metallic...

Guest post by my step-father, Cliff McReynolds, American visionary painter: I just hope other people get somewhere as much pleasure seeing my work as i do creating it. Blessing others blesses me.

I love the convergence of art and computer technology.  These photographs were taken in 2001 and colorized by my husband, Kip, but the art inspiration for the style poses and image manipulation were at my direction – he always asks for a smile with eyes wide open but...

In this art pastel of me as a teenager by mom, Patricia Haynes McReynolds, she used a photograph that was taken in our patio (see similar photo below of me and my step-father Cliff McReynolds).  I was overweight and had also overplucked my eyebrows.  At least that’s...

Mom always had a kiln at home in our garage so we grew up making bowls, dishes, cups, animals, etc.  She also taught children’s art classes in the 60s and 70s first at home and then at the La Jolla Contemporary Museum of Art and at Bishop’s School in La Jolla, so not...

This pot and dish were hand built / initially coiled by mom, Patricia Haynes McReynolds, at the Mira Costa College ceramics class that we took together.  She used an interesting raku-like glaze on red clay.  I loved to watch her creating art – she was prolific and her...

My dad, Robert C. Winsett, died nearly 20 years ago, summer of 1998. He was an artist and I have just had all his art packed away. He was really prolific so I had a lot packed up high, down low, on shelves and on the floor, scattered here and there in the garage. A...

I want to start by sharing this piece of art, an oil pastel by my mother, Patricia Haynes McReynolds.  It is one of a series depicting a mother’s devotion to her children and of her own spirituality; she created these for all 4 siblings.  This image is of me as a...

This is the first in a series of abstract art therapy paintings that hold special meaning for me as I muse upon the creative process. This has helped me reconcile longstanding emotional conflicts (along with a great therapist!). Art therapy...