A Classical Education
A Hunting We Will Go
West Barn At Leatherwood
Content In Confinement
Out of Whose Flowers
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A Classical Education
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A Hunting We Will Go |
West Barn At Leatherwood |
Content In Confinement |
Out of Whose Flowers |
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am influenced as much by certain
writers–––especially George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis–– as I am by great
visual artists
because they help me understand the deeper purpose of the arts. Lewis speaks of
nature being “only the first sketch” of a greater glory. It
is that greater glory that I see in the ordinary world around me and that is
what I hope to communicate to the viewer. Whether in an old bearded
gentleman with character wrinkles or in the white light patterns on the deep
green grass, I see the glory of God everywhere.
I am captivated by the ordinary man, the simple little house, the rugged oak,
the curly hair of a spaniel, the white explosion of a cumulous cloud.
Nothing is insignificant.
ART ASSOCIATIONS
Mint Hill Arts
Piedmont Pastel Society
Oil Painters of America, Associate member
Oil Pastel Society
Copyright 2011 All rights reserved by the artist.