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Category Archives: Soapbox
Pink legs, more about spitting
Adding the pink velatura layer to the legs has made the girls more substantial, and will help me to make decisions about the balance of colour in the painting. Once I get the skin of the upper part of the … Continue reading
Unity of Purpose
Sometimes we meet people whose understanding of the world so reflects our own that there is an immediate sense of brotherhood, with a shared unity of purpose that makes us feel stronger by association. Meeting yesterday with Tony Pro, Novorealist Alexey … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Novorealist, Soapbox
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Pre-Raphaelites to visit California
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England has announced that it is putting together an exhibit of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. This isn’t particularly earth-shattering news in itself, but their plan is to bring the show to San Francisco, which is … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Exhibits, Other people's work, Soapbox, Sources
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Why not just toss the paints into the dumpster and do this in the computer?
That flu has returned with a vengeance, beating me up with a fever, coughing headaches and so forth, so I’ve spent the day at home, with only a brief trip to take my little girl to the dentist. However, yesterday … Continue reading
Posted in Making work, Soapbox, Tarot-related paintings
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Artist’s talk at Bert Green Fine Art
Photos from yesterday’s talk, which was enjoyable. I spoke about alchemical nigredo, the grail flints found in Neolithic tombs and the nature of inner transformation discovered in the search for the purified and re-integrated prima materia, embarked upon by all … Continue reading
Artists talk
I’ll be at Bert Green Fine Art for an artists talk on Saturday at four o’clock. My installations Grails and As the Crow Flies have been there this month. Do join me at the gallery if you’re in the Los … Continue reading
MOMA/SF
Last weekend I had the chance to visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I found this visit disturbing because my perception of the art in the gallery was that everything seemed old and shabby. A collection of photographs … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Other people's work, Soapbox
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Lecture for Delta Kappa Gamma
I thoroughly enjoyed giving a lecture to the Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority yesterday – I was invited to talk about museums and what we look at when we visit them. I’m posting my lecture:Â What are you looking at? as a … Continue reading
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Complexity
I was chatting with Nathan Tierney last night as we sat around the dinner table with Paul Lucchesi and Janet Amiri, when he pointed out that there is a difference between complication and complexity. He mentioned that the following comes … Continue reading
Transcendence as a foundational truth
Foundational Truths for studio artists. Transcendence In discussions of studio practice we hear our fellow-artists describe an unusual state that comes upon us as we work, in which we experience “being in the flow” or “in another world” or that … Continue reading
