“He loved nature and the Hudson Valley landscape so much — and I think we all need to be inspired by that or there will be no icebergs left to paint.”
Ellen Harvey: Winter in the Summer House
The Strangely Familiar Art of Celia Reisman
I want my paintings to be worlds unto themselves, where you feel you are experiencing something for the first time even though it is familiar.” – Celia Reisman
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
“The wires of Dürer’s knots do, in a sense, chart the paths of entwined networks — of knowledge, commodities, cultural and material translation, repeating idealistically within a flourishing system.”
Sheila Fell – Painting the Dark Side of Cumbria
A brief introduction to the work of one Britain’s finest (and under-appreciated) landscape painters.
Beauty in Odd Places: An Interview with Lauren Barnett
“Like everywhere we go, even a highway or a junk yard or a parking lot has something about it that you want to capture or remember. It’s nice to go through your day expecting to find beauty in odd places.”
Breakers
“In subsequent weeks, I might take time to look at it and see what I’ve done. Or in this case, listen to the waves.”
Black on Black: Louis Draper Made His Subjects Visible
“For Louis Draper, who grew up in segregated Richmond, Virginia, in the 1930s and ’40s, navigating expectations about photography’s realism posed a unique challenge.”
Color, Memory, Place: An Interview With Jonathan Hooper
“Colour is the way that I seek to convey the total experience of a place — an experience that is only partly visual, but physical, emotional and built from memory as well.”
Rye Tippett: Poems and Paintings
Some poems and paintings from Rye Tippett.
Hanging Around Lambertville
“It’s easy for your art career to get derailed. The important thing is to get it back on track.”
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