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Sundancer

Sundancer— At Principle Gallery “Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether. You don’t ask what a dance means, you enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means, you enjoy…

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Beheld

Beheld— Now at Principle Gallery It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things,…

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Reflecting Time

Reflecting Time— Now at Principle Gallery I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places. —The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams (1945) I am going to be writing less in the coming days. Or weeks. I feel like I’ve said enough to last a while. Maybe too much. But I will share some things, some words from others that I like, images from myself…

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Becalmed

Becalmed— At Principle Gallery Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question….. The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable…

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Paint Toward the Light

The Passing Parade— Now at the Principle Gallery It’s akin to style, what I’m talking about, but it isn’t style alone. It is the writer’s particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There’s plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at…

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Jos. Campbell

The Wisdom Beyond Words– At Principle Gallery The hero adventures out of the land we know into darkness; there he accomplishes his adventure or again is simply lost to us, imprisoned, or in danger; and his return is described as a coming back out of that yonder. Nevertheless—and here is a great key to the understanding of myth and symbol—the two kingdoms are actually one. The realm of the gods…

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Soul Time

In the Free World-– Now at Principle Gallery, Alexandria Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. –Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887) As an artist, if you will allow to call myself that, I believe these words the famous 19th century preacher Henry Ward Beecher are true. I know that I feel closest to my work when it most…

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Rockwell Kent- In Quietness the Soul Expands

Rockwell Kent– Sunglare, Alaska (1919) Often I think that however much I draw or paint, or however well, I am not an artist as art is generally understood. The abstract is meaningless to me save as a fragment of the whole, which is life itself… It is the ultimate which concerns me, and all physical, all material things are but an expression of it… We are part and parcel of the big plan of…

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Aftermath

Semi-Finished Demo Painting- Principle Gallery 2025 Thought I would share a recap of this past weekend at the Principle Gallery in the aftermath of my opening there on Friday evening. The opening itself was a bit more subdued than in previous years but that was something that was anticipated by the gallery and me.  With the high temps (94° on the highway during the drive into town) and humidity…

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Thank You!

Yesterday was a pretty long day and I find myself kind of whipped this morning so this is going to be a relatively short post. I will write more about the opening of my Entanglement show at the Principle Gallery on Friday evening and yesterday’s painting demonstration in the coming day or so. I will however take this opportunity to say Thank You! to the folks who came out to these events. I am…

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Live Painting Demo @ Principle Gallery Today!

The opening for my Entanglement exhibit was last night at the Principle Gallery. I am writing this beforehand so I can’t elaborate on how things went. I will do that in the coming days. But I need to remind you that this morning, Saturday, June 14th, beginning at 11 AM, I will be giving a live painting demonstration at the gallery. This exhibit is my 26th solo show at the gallery but this is my…

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"Entanglement" Opening Today!

On my way to Alexandria this morning so this will just be a quick reminder that my solo exhibit, Entanglement, opens at the Principle Gallery tonight, Friday, June 13, with an Opening Reception that runs from 6-8:30 PM. I will be in attendance for the exhibit’s reception to chat and answer any questions you might have. If you can’t make it into the gallery, the show can be viewed online with a…

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The Regeneration/ Virtual Walkthrough

The Regeneration— At Principle Gallery, June 13, 2025 There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy, Three…

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A Bit of a Show Preview

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. –-Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount (1938) I was a little hesitant in using the quote above from Emmet Fox. I didn’t know much about him. You never want to quote someone then have them turn out to be some…

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Pax Omnis

Pax Omnis– At Principle Gallery The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one’s family, to one’s neighborhood, to one’s community and so on. —Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World (2004) The name of this new painting is Pax Omnis which translates roughly as Peace for All…

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The Floating World

The Floating World— Now at Principle Gallery Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples, singing songs, drinking wine and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; caring not a whit for the poverty staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current:…

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A New Urge for Going

Urge For Going— At Principle Gallery Today Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge. –Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart (1947) I am on the road this morning, heading down to Alexandria, VA to deliver the work for my Principle Gallery show, Entanglement, which opens this coming Friday. The new painting above, Urge…