Sunday, September 10, 2017

"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!!)

Saturday, September 9, 2017

"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!!!!)

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

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!!