Jim writes: "Neptune" is a combination of old man winter, the images on the sides of old maps, Botticelli, and the fearsomeness of the ocean.

Jim Fuess has had hundreds of group shows and more than forty solo shows over his thirty-two-year artistic career. He is known for his vividly colored abstract paintings. He also has a series of black-and-white paintings that are an exercise in going back to the basics of form and structure. They deal with the relationship of shapes and figures to each other and to negative space. He works with liquid acrylic paint on canvas. Most of his work is abstract, but there are recognizable forms and faces in a number of the paintings. He is striving for grace and fluidity, movement and balance. He likes color and believes that beauty can be an artistic goal. There is whimsy, fear, energy, movement, fun, and dread in his paintings. A lot of his work is anthropomorphic. The shapes seem familiar. The faces are real. The gestures and movements recognizable. More of his work, both in color and black and white, may be seen at www.jimfuessart.com.