Grey Cube Skies show

I was pleased to be accepted into the Grey Cube Gallery Skies show recently, with my refractured watercolor ‘Crimson Thread’. One of the things I’m enjoying about so many online shows is that it’s really practical for me to enter them! Enjoy the show!

Unfortunately the contest doesn’t allow you to see the sonnet in the painting: Crimson Thread
The world is turning into dawn, and I
can see a crimson thread start to appear
announcing that the newest day is near –
it makes me greet the beauty with a sigh.
Soon the ribbon’s red will turn to gold
and other wisps softly to scarlet turn –
water, under influence of light will burn
such colors that it awes us to behold
the transition from nighttime into day
and cause to wonder how we could deserve
this vision – just for living on a curve –
and leaves us without words that we can say,
only the thought that perhaps we should do right
to earn the reward that brings the end of night.

Another Forever home

The title of this painting is ‘And Never Leave…’ I’m glad to say that it has found its forever home with one of my favorite collectors!

Dawn off my back porch (there’s a new one every day but few look as good as this one). The poem written for this painting and painted into it is:

To step into a place and just belong
to stand within a sky and to believe
to raise your head, look up and to behold
and never leave, and never leave, and never leave.

A bit of an aside

I recently submitted a painting to Grey Cube gallery art contest ‘Animals‘. No, I don’t usually paint animals, but I chose the cover, and one of the internal illustrations from my recent book ‘The Alphabet Clan‘ and the cover was accepted!

5 paintings in their foreverhome

I love seeing paintings in their ‘Foreverhome’ – brings closure to having sent your children out into the void, to see where they landed. One of my recent sales goes to a collector who now has a brood of five of my little ones, and he graced me with pictures of their new residence. His face really isn’t like that but as he ended up in one of the photos too, I gave him a little more anonymity!

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Newer work #117

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1454 Cloud Castles. 9.5×7.5 Watercolor collage on foamcore in mat to 14×11. $65
Contains the poem:
Do not be afraid
to build castles in the clouds,
the sky is where we live.

Newer work #116

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#1447 Golden Dawn. Mixed media on panel, 17×9″. $100. The following poem is written for and painted into the painting:
Look up to the sky –
the sun lights the clouds on fire
at the edge of day.

Sonnets keep flowing..

Place as secret

Your presence is a mirror, taut and round,
a love letter from a time I can’t recall,
so much of me, it’s hardly there at all,
the surface of a depth far more profound
than space. You are the wind with which I run,
the movement in the sky, that which I breath,
the essence of the soul that I believe
conjoins us all, the shining of the sun
without being the sun itself. Mute voice
reciting all the poetry I write,
inverse dark matter cradling me in light.
We look into each other and rejoice.
We never knew that we would find a twin.
We reach our arms out and then step within.

Newer work #115

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1446 “Love Clouds”. Mixed media on panel 19×6″. $100.
The following poem is written for and painted into the painting:
Love the clouds above
Nothing else will bring the rain
That brings earth to life.

Newer work #116

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1444 “Golden Dawn”. Mixed media on panel 17×9″. $100.
The following poem is written for and painted into the painting:
Look up to the sky –
the sun lights the clouds on fire
at the edge of day.

Newer work #114

There are so many species on the brink of extinction, hence this influence.

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1445 Remember Butterflies. Mixed Media 15×9″ on shaped panel. $135. Contains the poem:
Were they just a dream?
Remember the butterflies,
how precious they were.