 Of course, the Straits of Magellan Show has been pushed back. I believe the new dates from mid-August to mid October will hold. Yay vaccinations! A reception should be held mid- way through in conjunction with an ArtSpace Festival weekend…. good times ahead. I continue to put works in the W Gallery of Arts Wayland and The Store at Elwell Hall will be open this summer.Now that I have painted out my passage through the Straits of Magellan, I am both apprehensive and excited to see in what direction my brushes take me next. There are many images piled up from the woodland walks, but this may be the time for something completely different. Time will tell.
To set a place and time truly in my memory, I need to sketch or paint it. Snapping a photo can be done mindlessly and rarely focuses on the particular details that that make that view capture me that day, or holds the depth that is there when I am a part of it. Our environment has overwhelming complexity amplified by our constant motion. There are whole days when we look at everything and see nothing; as a culture we are increasingly frenetic and disjointed. I paint as a way to see things, a way to be where I have been, to hold on to light and air and to tie myself to places and times. This makes each of those places a home to me. |
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