Nov 22, 2024
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Invocation in Blue
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure. – Henri Matisse Matisse certainly had it right. For me, blue is the color of the soul and spirit and red the corporeal, the blood and body. Blue is the ethereal. Red is the carnal. I think that is why both colors play such a large part in my work. Actually, they play large parts in the work of most artists. They…
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Full Moon Fever
Here is another new piece from my solo show at the Principle Gallery that opens next week, on June 4th. This is another of the interior scenes showing a room in the aftermath of some sort of to-do. Myself, I don’t know exactly what took place and can only imagine. I think that’s the point of these paintings, to give an endpoint where the viewer has to use their own imagination as to what has…
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Tranquilium
Fanny spoke her feelings. “Here’s harmony!” said she; “here’s repose! Here’s what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what may tranquillise every care, and lift the heart to rapture! When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended…
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Eye to Eye
Eye to Eye— Now at Principle Gallery I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. –Harry Emerson Fosdick, Riverside Sermons (1958) I came across a page of quotes that resonated strongly with me from Harry Emerson Fosdick, who lived from 1878 to 1969. I had never heard of him and his last name reminded me…
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Details, Details, Details...
A New Cornucopia detail For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance. –Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) I began writing this post a while ago about a painting, A…
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A Way Forward
A Way Forward (2012)- Now at Principle Gallery If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold. –Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting opinion in Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan (1924) The painting above, A Way Forward, was completed in 2012. It left the studio almost as soon as it was done so I only lived with it for a very brief time. Since it left, with only its image to…
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Placid Pondering
Placid Pondering (2012)- Now at Principle Gallery Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories. For what has made the sage or poet write But the fair paradise of Nature’s light? — John Keats, I Stood Tip-Toe Upon a Little Hill (1816) As I…
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