Monday, January 31, 2011

Madeline's Sky


"Madeline's Sky", Oil on Canvas, 24"x60" - North

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Snowbound


"Snowbound", Oil on Canvas, 18"x24" - North

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Whiptail


"Whiptail", Oil on Canvas, 26"x68 - North

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Moonlight Recordings


"Moonlight Record 20", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Monday, January 24, 2011

Moonlight Recordings


"Moonlight Record 19", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Friday, January 21, 2011

Winter Recordings


"Winter Record 34", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Moonlight Recordings


"Moonlight Record 18", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Paint Like a Man


"Winter Record 26", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6"

Paint like a man. The delicate traditions of Victorian ladies creating nature scenes from small brushes and even smaller rings of social experience, is not what I consider painting. Now, I’m not distinguishing between what is art and “not” art. That concept has been overly bastardized at both ends of the spectrum. I’m simply side-stepping the issue by asking if the artist can have that “aha” moment during the act of painting - the process-oriented action of discovery.

Just look at the early painted sketches of the accepted masters of art history. Their blocked-out color roughs have ten times the energy of the completed masterpieces that simply seem tired in comparison. Painting only works when you get caught-up in those innate Zen rhythms, something absent from the process of creating hundreds of glazes for a “realist” work. The machismo of the abstract Expressionists was an act of “throwing-down the gauntlet” to traditional painters. Jackson Pollock, like others of his time, grew-up in a house dominated by a small Victorian-minded mother. She painted dainty scenes and draped the family home in doilies, lace knitting and other “pretties” (a southern term I absconded from my mother-in-law). The excitement of acting upon reckless impulse is the motivating force that drives and sustains the artist’s ability to create literally thousands of paintings without limitation. - North

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Moonlight Recordings


"Moonlight Record 16", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Moonlight Recordings


"Moonlight reciord 13", enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Moonlight Recordings


"Moonlight Record 23", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Winter Recordings


"Winter Record 31", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Monday, January 10, 2011

Moonlight Record 4


"Moonlight Recordings 4", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Friday, January 07, 2011

Winter Record 15


"Winter Recording 15", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 6"x6" - North

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Winter Record 12


"Winter Recording 12", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 5"x5"
-North

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Winter Record 17


"Winter Recording 17", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 5"x5" - North

Monday, January 03, 2011

Moonlight Record 8


"Moonlight Recording 8", Enamel on Glass and Ampersand Panel, 5"x5" - North