We took a quick visit to Flat Rock Park in mid-August to see the lily pond for the first time in almost two years. The pond is nearly entirely taken over with lily pads, tiny openings of smooth water visible only from its reflections. It was early in the morning and you could feel it […]
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Symbols of Change & Gratitude
Joy. We all need more of it these days. If we pause long enough, the happy dance of Nature is ever present to provide it; the lilies, fireflies, butterflies and hummingbirds of Summer. The need for more joy in my life is expressing itself through my desire to paint water lilies in the ponds here. […]
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Terminal Fragments of Time and Space
Abstraction can have the power to reveal the sacred. Abstract painting can be a simplification of reality or a way of revealing its most complex elements seen through the filter of the soul, outside of time and space. Georgia O’Keeffe said the most important thing and artist can do is make their unknown, known. Each […]
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Texture Cracks are Cool!
I think I finally cracked up… In the last few months, I began experimenting with texture. I tried a number of commercial crackle pastes in the process, and was disappointed in the results. So I started experimenting with other materials and got some interesting effects. I posted the photos above and below on social media, […]
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Forest Bathing, Memory and Lingering in the Liminal
With the changing of the seasons, I’m beginning to focus on the ephemeral. I love this time of year. The heat goes away and I get to enjoy things outside for more than a couple hours in the early morning. But I’m exhausted, burned out. The art has been draining and exhilarating. Life has just […]
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Digging Deeper
For the last few weeks I’ve been going down a rabbit hole. Unsatisfied with the work I have been doing, I wanted to do more. Reading the latest books from artists/writers Brain Rutenberg (A Little Long Time) and John Seed (Disrupted Realism), I have been thinking about what art is, where the best of it […]
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