May 12, 2023 Weekly Musings
Posted on May 12 2023
Announcements:
Inspiration Accepted Into Exhibition
"Inspiration" has been accepted into the Culture and Agriculture Exhibition at the New Visions Gallery in Marshfield WI.
This exhibition can be viewed May 15-July 28, 2023
New Visions Gallery
1000 N Oak Ave, Marshfield, WI 54449
This is the third exhibition this inspirational work has been accepted into. It has also been accepted into the VMRC Exhibition at Park Gables Gallery in Harrisburg, Virginia and the Place Gallery Exhibition in New Orleans, LA.
Musings:
White Feather
Featured image: White Feather
Each morning my life becomes transformed and I awake to mother nature once again becoming new. If anyone wonders what new and authentic, and one-of-a-kind is, watch the day begin. Watch the sun rise.
I watched this morning as a tiny white feather floated from nowhere down to the earth. It was so small, once a part of flight and living, now to become once again part of the miracle of earth, nature and creation.
Natural things like this one are hard to recreate for an artist. For me, it is the idea of receiving a gift such as a floating feather and sharing it with others, one way or another.
Wild and Joyful
Featured image: Red and Yellow Flowers
wild and joyful
flying with ravens
magical
mystical
collecting
precious
treasures
ribbons and
flowers
twisting in
the wind.
Fine Wine
Featured image: Amarylis 2023
Art and artists like fine wine only get better as they age.
This is a Good Day to Imagine
Featured image: Gram's Vase
Imagining is a major part of who I am and how I think. I used to be pretty clear on what was real and what I made up, but with everything going on in the world, none of that seems to matter. So there are things I do because they are right and they make sense to me, be that they are imagined or real. It seems right to me that experience is the real reason I create art. I figured out a long time ago that what I think and what I wanted to create were two different things. Both are very powerful. I just don’t let them fight anymore. I don’t fight the paint and the mark making anymore when things don’t turn out the way that I expected. I just imagine them differently. Abstract work allows not only the artist but also the viewer to engage in the work and to imagine, to create.
Each day I just go to my studio, turn on the lights and immerse myself and my life to the beautiful mystery of creating and imagining.
When I finish a day in my studio I say to myself as I turn out the studio lights, “this was a good day to imagine.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” (Albert Einstein)
New Works:
