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“Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.” Mason Cooly A pandemic has overtaken our world and changed life as we know it. As we wake to another day of isolation, searching to make sense and find stability, practicing the practice of life within the chaos of the new norm, we ask:…
Read details“Being an artist means that you have the ability to imagine yourself into all kinds of othernesses. Doing that, you can rearrange perspectives on things, which can provide a revelation.” Eric Fischl We all get comfortable and complacent at times. We know we can do something well and it is comfortable. But the truth…
Read details“The science of design, or of line drawing, if you like to use the term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture…Sometimes…it seems to me that…all works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.?” …
Read details“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” Thomas Merton Someone asked if I gave up writing the other day. I am late for those of you who follow along. “No” was my answer, it’s just that “Life Happens”. I guess I must have thought I was…
Read details“A work of Art is completed by the Viewer.” Marcel Duchamp The dialog created in all the art forms, between artist and viewer, listener, or reader, is an exciting form of creative human expression and communication. A way of enriching the human experience .The “non creator” wants to find a story in the art, something to…
Read details“We must paint only what is important to us, we must not respond to outside demands.” Robert Henri It is the New Year and a lot of classes are starting up. Sometimes people take a class so they can paint like the instructor. That is so wrong on so many levels. What is important, is…
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