Spring

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Into the Mystic Oil 36 x 36” John Hulsey

We began as mineral.

We emerged into plant life,

and into the animal state,

and then into being human,

and always we have forgotten our former states,

except in early spring

when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi

While preparing paintings for a major solo exhibition at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art titled, “Transcendence: Truth in Nature, John was working on the exhibition catalogue as well. In the course of writing about the paintings for that catalog, he walked the reader through the four seasons and the inspiration and challenges they bring to the landscape painter.

In this issue, we wanted to share some of his thoughts and paintings about Spring with you.

“Spring is an important period for my painting outdoors here. The light is still clear and penetrates deeply into the forest as it sweeps its low angles across the landscape. Things change quickly as trees reclothe themselves in the brightest greens of th…