MERRILL MAHAFFEY

"As you proceed eastward around the rim from the parking lot at Hopi Point there is an overhang which provides shade, quiet and...

improvisation: mostly heard of in theatre and music. If realism is the script then observation and response without rehearsal is...

Esthetic Free Form Grounded in music. What is beauty, what is lasting. Form: light, dark, outline, mathematics, generalized form,...

From Merrill's sketchbook, 1977: " Between arrivals and departures of tour groups we swatted mosquitoes and marveled at the light...

Following the geometric trail into natural form has brought me to paint dynamited rock. Not every trail should be followed, but as many...

Excerpt from Merrill's book 'Upstream Downstream'. About Small Watercolors: To fully appreciate them is to understand that I invest as...

Excerpt from Upstream Downstream, written by Merrill Mahaffey circa 1974: "In 1970 two friends and I coined the term Southern Colorado...