Blue Magician

Widman has produced and exhibited a major body of artwork. Impressed by Robert Motherwell's collages, he adopted collage as a way of working and often built on the shapes and ideas that emerged from that process to develop paintings on a greater scale. His ink-wash drawings generate images used in large figurative paintings of mythological and archetypical subjects. The invention of abstract images that could represent identities and express purpose and emotions—The Magician, The Navigator, and The Oracle—has been one of his ongoing quests. - Robert Shotola, Oregon Encyclopedia