1500.00 ENTRE NOUS Original Acrylic and Oil Painting 20×24 on 1 1/2″ linen canvas This painting hits all my emotional marks. A cobble stone in France, still wet with the afternoon rain, under a bright blue sky, a couple deep in an intimate conversation, oblivious to their magical surroundings. Their intimacy is a great contrast…
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WHEN IN ITALY
I’m finally in a place where I can concentrate on ART! That’s the theory anyway. Several of my paintings, new abstract figurative, were included a group show at the Santa Monica Art Galleries and Studios this last week. Unfortunately, I wasn’t there but understand the whole show went very very well. I woke up this…
BACK TO REALITY
Like all things, my idyllic summer spent in Europe came to an end last week. Yes,reality has reared its ugly head and I’m not happy about it. Traffic, high rise buildings blocking out the sun, people wandering around in flip flops whose feet haven’t seen a nail clipper since 1999, architecture that combines Italian, French,…
ITALIA!
I’ve visited Italy many times, but have never stayed in a place so isolated. The house in Cireglio in the Province of Pistoia, is a tower which was occupied by the Nazis during the war because it has views that gone on forever. I can see Florence and countless other hilltowns, villages and towns. Last…
BEAUTY
Beauty is to seek out and cherish. I don’t mean superficial beauty that fades with age. I mean beauty that deepens with age. I’m fortunate enough to have spent the last six weeks surrounded, most of the time, by ancient and natural beauty. As a result, I’m acutely aware of its importance in my life….