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A Crack In Everything
I was listening to Leonard Cohen when I painted this piece, and it was very much inspired by his music and my intense feelings at this time and place we live in. The lyrics to the song, "Anthem" are below, and I'll let the painting and the song speak for me this time. Leonard Cohen died a few days after I painted this piece, but he generously left us one last, beautiful album to explore. I thank him.
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While many of my paintings are representational, I chose in this instance to do a purely abstract work, and found it very freeing. I enjoyed the opportunity to create a composition intuitively and based purely on emotion and gesture, and I hope you can find in it, a place of freedom for your own thoughts.
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I usually work in watercolor, but this time I wanted to try something different. I found joy in the texture I could create with the thicker paint and also by using a palette knife for much of the mark making, spontaneously adding color or...

To me, making art is about the stopping of time, as are so many of the things I most love doing. I don't believe in time as we know it. When I become engaged in creating something, I no longer feel subject to time's constricting whims. That is why I am driven to create. I love the light touch and thrilling chemistry of watercolor painting, the bold strokes possible in pastel work, the patterns I can create with an ink drawing, and learning something new, always. Color thrills me. Texture delights. I hope with each work to retain the clarity of what I see, and bring that into view for others. I may not always achieve that, but the honest desire is present in each of my pieces. For those who enjoy facts; I am a signature member of...