Paintings | Paintings
Mar.01.2013
Elizabeth Bishop, the prominent 'America' poet has deep, earthy roots in Canada. She spent many obvious formative years in Nova Scotia, less than a hour drive from Halifax. She was raised (in part) by grandparents in Great Village, which I visited a couple of summers ago.
I have some...
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Jan.06.2013
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, in the very dead of winter, the Epiphany...
Random reflections celebrating the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, whose transcendent luminosity transports us to its source.
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that...
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Aug.02.2012
Whether you’re a professional writer, a student writing a paper, or an executive writing a business proposal, everyone at some point experiences writer’s block. Writer’s block is a condition in which a person is unable to create new work. It varies in severity from mildly annoying causing one...
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Dec.07.2011
I always suspected that Mona Lisa was a bit of a wild cat. Something to do with the Cheshire cat smile. Oh, I know, it has been analysed to death – from toothache to the pleasure of labour pains to muscle dystrophy to sucking on a lozenge. Okay, that’s not been explored yet. Anyhow, New York...
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Jul.20.2011
The Acting Studio That Forms Leaders: Holy Wood Acting Studio
Our Best Role Models
I read that the first “Mystery Plays” performed in the early Church, along with the scenes depicted in stained-glass windows, were created for people who could not read or write. The earliest of these plays took...
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Aug.01.2010
Two original brush paintings by Kitagawa Utamaro, last seen at an exhibition in 1975, have been rediscovered in a private home in Tochigi, Japan.
The one scroll (see photo to the left), measuring 81 cm by 27.5 cm, depicts Shoki, the legendary demon-queller (a god of the Taoist pantheon who is...
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May.02.2010
Yesterday my husband and I went out to The Hunter's Point Shipyard to an artist's studio (Lynn Rubenzer) to see a very important painting, well, important to me, because, well, it's me. I was fortunate enough to pose for Lynn about a year ago and I wanted to see how the painting was coming along...
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Apr.30.2010
Dimitrije Popović
Kafka’s Metamorphosis on canvas at Dea Orh
The gallery is already participating in prestigious art fairs such as Art Dubai and Art Amsterdam and is currently exhibiting works by the highly esteemed Montenegrin and Croatian artist Dimitrije Popović.
Set in a location...
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Apr.07.2010
Claude Monet, the Water-Lilies, Paris and L'Orangerie Our family traveled from Prague to Paris for a getaway in the West last weekend. Along with time walking along the Seine, the Tuileries Gardens, around the Eiffel Tower and Arc D' Triumph and Trocodero, and mass at the Notre Dame on Ile d'Cite,...
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Sep.06.2009
Sunday rain is the sound of tin foil crackling on the skylight. It is rain full of curses and spits that resound all morning long. All morning long until a gale blows in and temporarily dispels it, only for it to return with a vengeance after lunch. The gale is a sudden swoosh pushed in from the...
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