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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Transformation
It seems I’m surrounded by symbols of transformation, in dreams and at my front door. I found a dead female Promethea Silk Moth on my front doorstep last year. I kept it because it was beautiful. I knew at some point the time would come to paint it. This week, that time came. The name […]
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Seriously!!
There is a road that runs through cattle pastures, not too far from here. I would park the car and walk the length of it passing all kinds of cows, most of which I couldn’t confidently identify, except for the longhorns. They were largely reserved and watched me at a distance, but a few would […]
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