Glow Oil on birch panel 12 x 12″ unframed but ready to hang $300
Here’s a painting I did as a study for a much larger painting that I’m working on now. Since clouds can be a landscape in themselves I’m painting some with no other middle or background.
We’re back from L.A. and blogging with dial-up seems even slower after 2 weeks of wi-fi. Life in the woods is wonderful but we do yearn for a faster connection.
While we were in L.A. we had dinner with Ed’s niece, Terryn Westbrook, a successful actor. She gave me a wonderful quote from Martha Graham to Agnes deMille. I think anybody who attempts anything creative can relate to what she says. I’m certainly glad to hear that dissatisfaction is “divine” since there’s plenty of that along the way!
“ There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, the expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and there is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. “
