Just yesterday I flew from warm sunshine on a luminous Caribbean beach to the gray winter skies of New England. . Fortunately it was not too cold so re-entry was not as harsh as it might have been. Today my forest view is muted with softly falling snow. I had group of young artists […]
There are those who think Lake Powell is an environmental desecration. I agree. It was a mistake. A political pork barrel. A great tragedy in process. Many say it will fill with silt and sand within a few hundred years and cease to exist. But the old adage: ‘when you are given lemons, make lemonade’ […]
Woody Gwyn in his studio The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Seeing the world through the eyes of another opens up new horizons. The art of Woody Gwynn offers a clear view into the distance. A year ago I had the good fortune […]
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Seeing the world through the eyes of another opens up new horizons. The art of Woody Gwynn offers a clear view into the distance. A year ago I had the good fortune to visit the studio of […]
Not all who wander are lost. –Tolkein I have been wandering. Not alone, but with a group of students from Castleton State College. We’ve been all over the southwestern US. Studying art and anthropology, we are finding both in abundance. The markings left by ancient people resonate with their ancestral traditions. Art is what we […]
“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. –Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior & orator There are moments when art just reaches out and grabs you […]
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill Did you know that Winston Churchill was quite the painter? He was a late starter- He didn’t begin painting until he was 40- but over the next 48 years he painted more than 500 paintings. One of his works […]
This is the most magnificent, balmy atmosphere in the world– ought to take dead men out of grave. Mark Twain in Hawaii As usual, Mark Twain is correct. Hawaii does have magnificent, balmy sea breezes which rustle through the palm fronds and froth the translucent waves. I had never been to these islands before, but […]