Meet the Artist

"Art is pure and intense play." (Machado)

Ron Masa's drawings and paintings are inspired by the magical beauty of animals and nature and also by intuitive images and creative imagination. His style is playful, mystical, colorful and evocative.

Ron drew and painted for many years as a sideline to stone sculpting. He showed marble and alabaster sculptures in a dozen galleries in California, Arizona and Colorado and at the Loveland Invitational Sculpture Exhibition (5 years). Now painting and drawing are Ron's central focus. He has been selling acrylic paintings, photography, and hand painted silk at the Russian River Gallery in northern California. He lives with his partner, a fellow artist, near Santa Cruz, CA.

Ron says: "I love tiny art! When I am making ACEOs, the format itself, invites experimentation in style and in subject matter which accelerates my growth. Plus I love that they are the truly affordable art! I make them and I collect them myself."

RON MASA

 

 

 

 

Throughout my professional career, I was always also an artist. Now that I have found my ideal partner ( of course an artist too) and we have found our ideal place to live (at the ocean), I am making art full time. The unhyphenated term "Artist" now describes my work and at last, my identity.

I believe art is a hard earned gift from deep within us and to create art one must attune to the source of creativity itself, call that whatever you will. Art makes us as much as we make it. Art invites the soul to participate in waking, outer life... for the soul is nourished by beauty. I hope to create images which touch that source within the viewer.