Who am I? What do I Want? What is my Dharma?
These are the questions that I have been pondering while painting over the past three weeks as I also participate in a 21-day Meditation Challenge offered by the Chopra Center. Sounds a bit sophomoric but, in fact, it was perfect timing for me to go within and process my answers with fresh eyes and an [...]
“Moment of Engagement”
Yesterday, a frigid Sunday in December, I decided it was time for me to resume painting. It’s been several weeks since I put palette knife to canvas; so, I had to go through the process of setting up my space, beginning with covering the floor with a green oil cloth. Next, I laid out my tubes [...]
Artist’s Process – Fixing the unfixable?
I’ve been working on a painting which I have carried in my mind for many moons. It’s a view of the marsh at high-tide at Kiawah, S.C. I’ve painted the marshes before, mostly in an abstracted landscape form; but this time, I wanted to try realism, to a point. I decided to use a 24″x48″ [...]
Water & Sky
When I take myself to the place in the world where I am most me, most centered, most awakened, it is always along a shore, a wide-expanse of water going on forever with an open, ever changing sky as partner. It is there I come to be. Whenever I desire, I can be there –in [...]
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