MarkARTurner

This wild abstract demonstrates the mystery that we cannot describe everything in words. Even pictures are not always enough. Sometimes you just have to experience it. Zoom in and explore.

This wild abstract demonstrates the mystery that we cannot describe everything in words. Even pictures are not always enough. Sometimes you just have to experience it. Zoom in and explore.

This is the transparent version of "Related Separated", the composition I created then divided like we dissect the whole Creation for control and manipulation. Most do not remember that nothing is actually disconnected. This art reminds us we are still part of each other and can come together. See its companion piece “Diversity Joined”.

The dizzying lights and motion transport us to the playground of the carnival. Experience this other world full of fun and action, flavors and music, that you will remember with a laugh.

This tree is standing proud in solidarity with you. Send your roots deep and let your foliage wave in the breeze because you know you're not alone.

Words are not enough to write of Love, but Love energizes us to try and express the inexpressible as I once did standing in awe of the light and shade on the snow in front of my home.

The complexities of our lives cannot overcome the Light dawning upon us.

This is about that time between combustion and calm, attack and retreat. Many energies compete for actions of flaring up or peace. It is a time when wisdom is forged within us to channel passion for creation or destruction.

It is good to see doves nearby when you pause to look up in the sky. See the white version on dark colors to choose the best look for you or the one you gift.

It is good to see doves nearby when you pause to look up in the sky. See the black version on light colors to choose the best look for you or the one you gift.

When you're climbing you feel one with the rock and breeze. On your Tee this reminds you that you are part of the cosmos. Get it in black for a light Tee in my shop.

When you're climbing you feel one with the rock and breeze. On your Tee this reminds you that you are part of the cosmos. Get it in white for a dark Tee in my shop.

Show what you're made of with this picture of your machine parts and we'll see you're in working order. Get this in black for a light Tee in my shop.

Show what you're made of with this picture of your machine parts and we'll see you're in working order. Get this in white for a dark Tee in my shop.

Creation is explosive like a volcano. It seems like a mess but it can also be beautiful and in due time we emerge as the miraculous, thinking creature. Love yourself with this design about you coming to be.

I smudged my paint brush around as I contemplated 9-11. This makes you think.

I created this abstract to show differences working together. In its companion piece "Related Separated" I divide it into pieces like we dissect the whole Creation. Here is shown that nothing is actually disconnected. Compare the two to help remember we are still part of each other.

I created an abstract then divided it like a puzzle like we dissect the whole Creation for control and manipulation. Most do not remember that nothing is actually disconnected. May this art help remember we are still part of each other. See its companion piece “Diversity Joined”.

This action design will pop on your wall, clothes, bags and cases to accompany your active life.

Thinking spontaneously as I experimented with lines and shapes, a profound setting seeming floral emerging from mysterious forms behind reminds me that we are struggling to evolve. I hope it encourages you to keep growing for the better.

Let your imagination travel to another level of reality through this portal. The painting was first done in acrylics on Masonite in 1983 and 38 years later is now a digital painting in 2022. You too are a portal for others to find beauty, peace and Goodness.

Walking a nature trail, I enjoy countless shapes and forms. Explore the infinite patterns, lines and shapes by meditating on boulders and plants along the trail.

This dynamic design sparks life in a room or on clothes making it fun to wear or just look at.

The childlike gestures evoke the energy and freedom of the “beginner’s mind” exploring space, line, texture, shape, like a dance creating something ineffable in nature.

In a childlike style this painting is a symbol about symbols we have been making and using to address the intangible meaning of everything and everyone since pre-history. It illustrates the blog post at https://horizongate.org

This painting was an outlet of energy during my prayer for the world in so much trouble. As you carry and wear it may the prayers continue and heal wherever you go.

We all touch something and someone. We all bear the marks and leave the marks for better or worse. This is why God's Grace is so crucial.

This poem contemplates the past, the moving present and the future. It is a hope and a faith statement with a prayer for all the details of life to work together for good purpose. Written in my personal devotions early in the morning, it's letters eventually became the grid for this collage of marks, and images of past moments with children, grandmother, beloved old buildings, ocean waves breaking on the rocks, my wife looking very tiny under a very tall tree among the rock walls of Zion National Park and other beautiful compositions which you will discover as you explore the intricacies of this composition. Partly hand drawn on paper, partly digital drawing, the composition experiments with layering, addition, subtraction, transparency,...

This is a metaphorical composite from photos by Kathy Marsh, Dave Hoefler, and Nagara Oyodo. Inspired by the end of Isaiah 6.

Early one morning I contemplated the epiphany of Moses alone in the remote wilderness tending his father-in-law's sheep. There he was attracted to the phenomenon occasionally seen when the heat of the desert causes a random bush to catch fire. Usually short lived, a thin filament of smoke would ascend and it would be over. But, this time the bush kept burning without being consumed and, on Moses' approach to the inexplicable, he began his life-long conversation with the Divine. As the scene played upon my spirit, I picked up my oil pastels and joined the conversation by making these marks. May you also enter the conversation as you live with this drawing.

mixed media, pencil and digital painting Markings by intelligent beings reveal the soul expressed through the hand and tool. They have meaning beyond words, though they may be called "asemic" (without meaning). I assure you these markings speak of life from my soul to yours and it is in language that goes beyond what we learn in school. On your wall, apparel or objects it is evidence of the life we are all awakening to.

Sitting on the rocks of La Jolla, California, letting the Pacific Ocean waves wash and massage me on a summer day, is an essential part of my life. Let this image of the rocks and water transport you to the sandy coolness I enjoyed when framing it in the summer of 2016.

Walking down to Green Valley Falls in the dry season the amber grass and grey branches made infinite compositions with the black speckled pink and white granite boulders. This is one composition which caught me and which I have processed digitally so as to show the composition more clearly.

This poem has been incorporated into a play, a short story, a volume of poetry and now a metaphoric image. It is about the unexpected beginning of life when death is final. The power to overcome inevitable dissipation to nothing is shown in the churning universe giving birth to stars and humans even while destruction carries on. I offer these words and collage of images for your meditation and illumination.

I walked searching out the beauty where I grew up in San Diego beside this tide pool on the edge of the continent. Here is a moment in time when the shapes, lines and rhythms of life are frozen for us to contemplate. I am always awestruck to see the basis of all art in Nature, the lines that direct my eye, the shapes arranged in relationships which tug ineffably to something in my soul. I find the subtle and the dramatic contrasts between light and dark reveal building blocks of Creation and therefore a kinship between myself and the elements in this image. The faithful, long-term work of the water shaping the rocks gives me perspective on my place in time. The understated colors remind me of the confidence I can have to be who I am ...

Mixed media of oil pastel, pencil, and digital painting. On April 24, 2017 my morning meditations led me to contemplate the transformation happening which makes where we have been merge with where we are going. Ponderous words of the old, dark ground have layered around our roots which generate growth up through a lighter atmosphere acknowledging where we have come from, yet reaching forward to the ineffable spirit uniting all things.