"Ekphrasis" II "Earth and Ether"..(SOLD)..and the poem.....

24x36

oil on gallery wrapped canvas

so this is last year's painting..and once again Antonia Matthew honored me with the following poem:

Out There: Earth and Ether

Air,

snowstorm-white, smog-yellow

surges by.

Air Howls, snagged

by shadowed mountain range

whose rocks are silent, enigmatic.

Air becomes river.

Mountain becomes

packed-earth bank.

River becomes torrent

battling earth.

River becomes sea.

Earth, becomes rocky shore.

Sea becomes great wave

lifted by wind, rising, cresting,

to assault shore,

crack rock open,

expose secrets.

Rock, silent, hunkers down.

The watcher's hands punch sky,

feet grip rock, as sea foams

around her, filling her ears

with clamor.  Possessed, her eyes

burn.  She is poised to leap.

Force of wind and water

push her back,

keep her

watching

(and yes..i love this one too!!)

"Home from Church"...(SOLD) first ekphrasis...and the poem...

14x11

oil on board

so this is the first "Ekphrasis" happening...poets and artists joining forces.. my friend jim asked if i would post the poems..so i'll start with this first one from 2015.. the poet is Tonia Matthew...

At first

loneliness:

the single figure,

the sky spilling into the street,

the blue shadow on the roof

a single bell toll,

the street moving from sunlight

into the dense shade

of overhanging trees.

But then

through a break in the fence

along the path, 

sunlight slides,

soaks into a clump

of orange flowers, 

sets them on fire.  

The small woman

dressed in black,

white kerchief over her head

pauses    there,

leans on her cane.

She has come from the church

where she lit a candle,

sat in the cool dimness

alone.

Now, she is on her way home

to that small, silent room

But, see   she has stopped,

warmed by the glow of orange flowers.

Waiting, perhaps, for them to speak.

(and yes, i do love this!!!!)

finally back at it...somewhat...

KOI III

36x36 oil on gallery wrap canvas

so this is another commission for my friend david.  i absolutely love painting koi.. they have so much personality..i could do a koi painting every day!!.. and here it is september and all of a sudden it's fall!!...golf is winding down..i did manage to snag low gross in our club championship ...laura decided NOT to go fishing in canada so she was over all club champ..and well deserved!!..had a pretty good day at timbergate today..84 with two doubles..too bad i couldn't do that a few weeks ago!... but you know what that's called?!???....GOLF!!!  some days the bear gets YOU!!  i have some other commissions to get going on..but the weather is too nice to spend in the studio.. those days are coming..in a way i can't wait!!