I’ve been painting the same apple for a month. At first, it was just a symbol. Then a feeling. Then I really started to see it. The more I focused, the more it revealed color, texture, stillness, energy.
Week after week, the skin and shape of the apple changed. Somehow, feeling, form, and process all found their way into the painting.
Is there something in your life that reveals more as it ages?
What if everything we see is just the beginning, and every form holds something deeper, something we can feel?
This is a photo of a cauliflower. It shows the form, and how it looks to the eye. We notice shape, texture, and pattern. But this is only the surface.
This sketch is my human interpretation of the actual cauliflower. Sketching helps us slow down and observe. When we draw, we begin to notice energy: movement, connection, and flow.
”Form Bloom.” Oil on canvas. 36” square. Here is my abstract painting of the cauliflower’s energy. It’s less about how it looks, and more about its aliveness. This painting reveals my sense of the invisible energy within the form, rising and unfolding.
What do you see when you look at the world? What do you feel? ”Form Bloom” invites you to notice both, and to remember that every form is also a doorway into energy.
It’s springtime in Virginia, and I find myself beneath a flowering tree. I am drawn by sudden blossoms. Nothing holds them back from quiet grace and wild bloom. How freely they open.
As I paint this aM all being, I sense again that we are all one raw and flowing energy. And in the moment, I feel free and in love.
aM all Banner 3. Work in progress. Six feet square. Acrylic on canvas.
Work in Progress. The aM all beings are energy portraits—living reflections of inner gardens. And like you, they are glorious. aM all Banner Number 3. Acrylic on canvas. Six feet square.
Three months journey to create the second of the aM all banners. Dimensionality, movement, and energy seem to form and emanate from this aM all being.
aM all Banner 2. Acrylic on Canvas. Six feet square.
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Details from the eight-week painting. Currently, I’m exploring color, space, mark-making, and texture.
Iteration Nine detail. Color and space.
Iteration Nine detail. Mark-making variety.
Iteration Nine detail. Texture!
This eight-week painting may become a forever painting. : ) Watch this space for updates on progress, meanwhile… Have a marvelous now!
A work in progress, this aM all being is sturdy yet translucent.
aM all banner 2. Acrylic on canvas. Six feet square.
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This talk, given at Studio IX gallery, covers why I paint, my process, and my progress so far as an artist. It also reveals an unresolved insight about art and concept that I’m exploring.
Take a look: https://youtu.be/JwDcjDO-Ggw?si=epelYMwzz91xiU9I
This is my painting process: Play > Narrow into an intention > Rebel against the intention. In other words, a painting that fights against itself. What’s valuable about this is that it includes conflict and harmony, beauty and ugliness. It is an exploration into loving our whole selves—even the parts we reject and try to keep hidden. Here’s an example. It is the eighth iteration of the abstract discovery painting.
Iteration 8. Three feet square. Oil on canvas.
After many months, the first aM all Banner is finished…
The Call. Six feet square. Acrylic on canvas.
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