Art is Long
The Beauty of Perspective
I am presenting a new exhibition of my work this month which includes older paintings from my personal collection not offered to the public before. The show did not start out to be a retrospective, but is, instead, a creative response to my recent injury, which halted all progress on the new paintings I had in the works in my studio. This left a gap which needed to be filled, so I selected the best of older pieces I had, to add to the exhibition. Now that I see it beautifully presented on the gallery walls, I think that this exhibition is really more interesting than what I had originally planned.
As an example, the painting above, Swan Dance, was created from a moment I saw in the Papal Gardens in Avignon, France. I was there, along with Ann, teaching a watercolor workshop at various locations in the south of France. I had the class set up at an overlook onto the Rhone River which had a spectacular view of the Château-Neuf du Pape vineyards in the…
