Story in a Portrait

Original Artwork by Benita Garvin

Original Artwork by Benita Garvin


YOUR WALLS ARE TALKING

The purpose of my art is to communicate a story. Yours. Mine. Everybody. I want to create paintings that reveal themselves in a new way, every time you look at them.

CHANGING IT UP

As long as I'm imprisoned, I'm determined to make the best of it. I'm in the throes of a final phase in a very ambitious painting of New York City. The painting includes things I struggle with most: lines, perspective and more lines. Even with a ruler, I find it difficult to draw a straight line! How is that possible, you may ask. Trust me, it's ...

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COVID, CREATIVITY OR THE LACK THEREOF

I admit that by month seven - or whatever the hell it is - of this pandemic, I'm frazzled. I'm certainly not alone. Anyone with a pulse feels the same. I don't feel I can complain because I'm 1) alive; 2) healthy; 3) roof over my head and food on my table (and hips). Therefore, I shouldn't complain. And I won't. My SAVIOR is painting. I write, ...

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