End of the Year- Not the End of Days

Last day of yet another year…
I don’t want to drone on about this past year.  There are enough blogs out there doing that today and tomorrow, citing personal triumphs and failures.  Putting up their personal top ten lists of things like movies and music.  But even the most jaded and contrarian of us can’t deny [...]

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Exiles: Blue Guitar

I wanted to show yet another of the paintings from the Exiles series, a piece titled Exiles: Blue Guitar.  This was larger than the other paintings in the series and was the most intricate in design.  It was the only piece to show a full body, more or less.  The crimson sheets beneath the figure [...]

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Setting a Course

This is the part of my year where I step back and take a good look at the past year, how my work developed over the year and what I felt really came across and expressed what I wanted in the paintings that I executed.  It’s also the time when I start to set my [...]

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The Revelator

I find that whatever is playing in the studio, music or film, at the time I’m painting has a great influence over my work.  Songs or movies that have great dramatic impact for me often manifest themselves in my work, with me picking up their tone and rhythm and trying to lay it down in [...]

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Exiles: Cain

I thought I’d take a moment and show this painting, Cain, another from the Exiles series that I’ve discussed in past posts.  This is a smallish piece and one of my favorites, one with which  I will never part.
He is based, somewhat, on the biblical story of the original exile, one sent from his homeland [...]

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Much Worse Things To Believe In

Well, it’s the day after Christmas.  I always find this holiday a reflective time.  There are always a flood of memories of past holidays- moments of joy and moments that are a bit melancholy.  Memories of family and friends, past and present.
For many, it remains a small respite from the chaos and cynicism of the [...]

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On Christmas Morning

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! 
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The Deacon’s New Tie

This is another painting from the Exiles series, called The Deacon’s New Tie, a piece finished near the end of the series.  It is a bit lighter and more whimsical than the other pieces in the earlier post.  He has hung in my studio for many years now and is a fine companion.  
There’s really [...]

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Personal Mythology

I think a big part of my becoming an artist was the time I spent in my childhood, not as the center of attention,  but as an innocuous observer to everything around me, all the different people and events and stories that formed a personal mythology that very much shaped the way I think and [...]

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Exiles

  This past week I mentioned a series of paintings that I had finished in the mid 90’s called Exiles.  This series was the basis for my first solo show and remains a very prominent and personal group of work for me.  I had started showing my work publicly for the first time at the West [...]

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