The Heart of Nature features works on paper by Jim Waid and pottery by Andy Iventosch. Renowned painter, Jim Waid has lived and worked in Tucson for over 50 years. Andy Iventosch is a potter who calls Tucson his hometown. The two artists honor their connection to nature through their subject matter and media.

“The complex play of line, texture and space produces intuitive connections rather than simply literal or narrative ones. We witness a rendezvous of lovers, the insect and the flower uniting as one. It is in this in-between space of representation, one also revealed through the use of multiple perspectives, that the poetry of Waid’s vision of nature resonates with the improvisations of jazz music and dissolves the boundaries between artist creation and the energies of nature. As he puts it: Among other things, the drawings are about observed plant life; improvisation, growth patterns, insects, doodles, perception, all trying to capture that sense of life, of energy, that is at the heart of nature.” – Paul Eli Ivey

“It is the job of the artist to discover and convey wonder in the universe. The potter is perhaps the most well situated to make discoveries due to the close rhythmic, daily work with clay. Mud is the most basic yet most incomparable of materials. It connects the potter with primordial aspects of the world around us. The potter is grounded by the making of pots that contain volume.”

Image: clockwise from upper left (details): Andy Iventosch, Jim Waid, Andy Iventosch, Jim Waid