BLAKE THE MYSTIC
WILLIAM BLAKE CONNECTED TO THE MYSTERIES William Blake was trained as a Journeyman Engraver in the 1770s. Mind you, this was the age before photography. And the printing arts—engraving, etching, [...]
SHIVA / SHAKTI
The Male / Female Paradigm in Art It is an area that interests me in painting, namely my painting―SACRED SEXUALITY. And this amounts in my world to the Male / Female Paradigm in Art. It is also [...]
COROT’S GREEN
Who Has Mastered Green? I was in graduate school at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia (actually Elkins Park, a northern suburb of Philadelphia) when I met Roger Anliker, a long time professor [...]
GREAT MUSEUMS
THE GAMUT OF THE HUMAN SPECTRUM The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is truly a Great Museum. I blundered into this video on YouTube, one in a series called GREAT MUSEUMS. I saw it was [...]
A PAINTER’S LIFE; OUT ON THE EDGE
A PAINTER’S LIFE; OUT ON THE EDGE OF NEW DISCOVERY One who is out on the edge of new discovery is often facing the fine line between sanity and insanity. This would have to be so. [...]
A PAINTER’S LIFE; GAUDI’S GENIUS
THE BARCELONA INFLUENCE Few Architects had such a Divine Connection as Antonio Gaudi. His architecture, especially Parc Güell, had an essential impact on my vision of art and art-making. It may [...]
A PAINTER’S LIFE; FOUR DECADES
A Painter’s Life; Four Decades I am writing another book. But this time it’s about art. My art. Perhaps you could call it an autobiography. All art is autobiographical in the end. [...]
THE PAINTER’S POWER
THE POWER OF COLOR Painters are to the window of the pictorial world as God is to the great Void of the Cosmos. They wield color like God spins worlds and galaxies into play. There is a notion of [...]
ON THIS RESURRECTION DAY
ON THIS RESURRECTION DAY It is Paradise we want here. Joy is it. We ask for well-being beyond belief, nothing short of Heaven on Earth. Art is only that, even if it is gathering up all the [...]
THE ART OF JOY
The Art of Joy There is a JOY that comes from painting something. Anything. For me, just making marks of color on a surface is something of the ecstatic. Perhaps it derives from memories of doing [...]
