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Winter Solstice
A few years ago at an opening reception I noticed a woman staring at a little painting of a coffee shop in the rain. I asked her what she was thinking. In broken English she said, ” I left my … Continue reading
C.S. Lewis on Loving Nature
“It is the ‘moods’ or the ‘spirit’ that matter. Nature lovers want to receive as fully as possible whatever nature, at each particular time and place, is, so to speak, saying. The obvious richness, grace, and harmony of some scenes … Continue reading
Robert Henri on Subject
“The error rests in the mistaken idea that the subject of a painting is the object painted.” – Robert Henri (The Art Spirit, p. 128, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, originally published in 1923)
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Gathering Shells 20 x 24 | oil on canvas
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