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Tapping into the Unconscious – The Art of Sohan Qadri

February 16, 2020

When I first encountered one of Sohan Qadri’s paintings, I was plunged like a pebble into a still pool, radiating ripples of …

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The Mystical Mindscapes of Matthew Wong

November 3, 2019

I discovered a new favorite artist on the day he died–too young at 35, Matthew Wong. A tribute to Wong’s …

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October Trees, Falling Leaves, Bursts of Glory

October 31, 2019

October is my birth month. I’ve always had mixed feelings about that. Being born when the days are growing shorter, …

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Secluded Pool, Secret Garden, & Summer Plans Gone Astray

July 7, 2019

I haven’t been painting as much this year, but I thought I’d share these two. Both were meant to be …

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Michelangelo’s Pieta & Saint Peter’s Basilica

June 30, 2019

I have always been drawn to and moved by images of Michelangelo’s Pieta, his sculpture of the Mother Mary holding …

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Religious Art, Old and New at the Vatican

June 20, 2019

Visiting the Vatican Museums while in Rome is a must if you love art and history. The vast richness and …

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Astonished, Opened at Last

May 5, 2019

Fallen in Love by David Whyte That day I saw beneath dark clouds the passing light over the water and …

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Art that Mirrors the Inner Essence

April 28, 2019

I found this photo on the cover of Sun Magazine some years ago and fell in love with it. It’s …

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What Makes this Photo So Fascinating?

April 7, 2019

What makes a photograph great? What draws us to look again and again? What is it we see that fascinates …

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The Insatiable Eye – Sontag on Photography

March 31, 2019

In her book of essays On Photography, Susan Sontag speaks of the “insatiability of the photographing eye” in our image-obsessed …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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