About Myself, My Artwork, and This Site

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In case you missed this on the Home Page, thank you for visiting my site. I mean it!

(Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic the Shop Section is currently offline. Ultimately, that wasn't even the point of this undertaking in the first place - to build a website to share my art, diverse interests, and hobbies. I hope to make the Shop available at some point in the near future. For anyone visiting for iris flowers and plants, I still intend on making them available for shipping in June through Sept.)

This site is intended to be home base for my art, my iris flower obsession, the things I make, the musical projects, both current and past that I've been involved in playing the drums, plus various album artwork, and other eclectic pursuits. 

The website is meant to archive and promote my art, in all its forms, and to inform the viewer about the inspiration and meaning behind it. It’s a visual story and written thoughts about all the minutiae and details concerning my art and various interests. This has been like building ten websites in one, but it could be no other way, in my mind. I hope you will enjoy this mini-wormhole into my cosmos. 

- David R. Mauerman

There's also a section for my mother-in-law's artwork found under Joanne's Art Corner.

All images Copyright © 2020 DavidsArt - All Rights Reserved - unless otherwise noted. Please Contact me if you'd like to use something (and if you spot any navigational issues or general problems - this IS my first website rodeo).  

More About Myself and This Site

I've made art for as long as I can remember. I've never not felt like an artist and/or a creator of things. I aspired to be a good painter since a very young age. I honed my drafting and drawing skills at an early age, through high school, and then while earning my BFA - but always with a painter's aspirations. I can't remember not wanting to be a painter, or an artist, or just simply be creative. I am proud of what I have accomplished. Currently, my work is focused on gardening and hybridizing iris flowers and the resultant spectrum of art that is coming out of those efforts. I have been very surprised and pleased by this long-term project and the fusion of art with gardening, science, and genetics.

I've spent countless hours to literally make a digital portrait of nearly every artistic pursuit I've ever gone after and catalog my artistic journey with the intent of sharing as much of that, and my ideas, as I possibly can. Perhaps, my ego is just ginormous, but I lean toward the former explanation. Making this site has become something of a massive cathartic reflection or overview, and hence is part gallery, part blog, part thoughts on everything and anything.  

As a bit of a site-map, this website can be broken down into several major areas:

1. My Artwork - including painting, photography, and other things I have made.

2. My involvement with musical projects as a self-taught drummer, and the artwork born of that.

3. My work in the area of gardening and hybridizing iris flowers, which occupies much of my current modus operandi. This, and watercolor, remain my true passions of creating.

4. A website (within a website) devoted to my mother-in-law's art. 

Also included : Tributes to my late father-in-law, my close family members (you mean everything to me), an extensive links page with all thing's art, music, iris flowers, and a glimpse into some of my diverse interests...and more! 

Finally, I hope for this site to be TOO much. Truly. Last I checked, there are nearly 1,700 images on DavidsArt.net. I've worked too hard to NOT do this and, in my own way, throw a wrench into the norms of what an artist's website should be. Throughout my life I have left enough unsaid. I detest conventions. I prefer an expanding and exploratory approach to learning new abilities. As such, they are continually morphing and evolving. I view my art and creative process itself as having an ever-expansive trajectory with many loops back onto itself, if that makes any sense at all. In short, you learn something in an area you didn't know applies to another. I don't know about you but I get pretty bored being repetitive or recognizable. 

I see the connections between all that I do and how it all co-mingles. How exactly do iris flowers and heavy metal go together?! Eh, it's logical to me....at least I think it is...HA. So please, do me a favor and enjoy all of it. Life really is ART! Welcome to my chaotic, co-mingled, and eclectic universe of creation.

-David