I Don’t Want Pretty (or Nice)

richter

I want good, new, modern

I know it is an odd title but that is what I thought while painting and redoing this work. My idea was to bring the awakening of spring into this work, as in: the surrounding is beautiful red wet earth and the day light brightness opening up our . . . → Read More: I Don’t Want Pretty (or Nice)

Rusty Love and the Octopuses Garden

the bear

“The Vancouver Sun” brought an article about the huge rusty metal art and architectural use in the City, that made me very happy because…….. that is what I like.

       

the bear as guard dog by the entrance of our house

                  . . . → Read More: Rusty Love and the Octopuses Garden

Colored Clouds

cloud #7 greeting cloud

Do you see clouds in white or dark only?  I don’t, I imagine all kinds of colors in wind and weather or sun and friendly skies, just like a child sees castles in the sky – why not see colors in the sky.

A friendly color, wet color, stormy color, dreamy soft, wild . . . → Read More: Colored Clouds

Gerald’s Garden

Gerold's Garden, Aug. 2006 027 (2)

Dreaming of summer and the colors to come.

January is a good time to dream of a flower garden. Catalogues galore flying through the front door into my house, so to speak.

When we still lived in the Kootenays at the North end of the Lake,  not the best region for flower gardens . . . → Read More: Gerald’s Garden

Wassily Kandinsky

Between sea and sky

   1898                   1909

    1926                         1944

The central theory of Wassily Kandinsky’s abstraction idea was that there is such a thing as inner necessity that is capable of determining the outward form . . . → Read More: Wassily Kandinsky

It is a small world

a little song1

I am still working on my canvasses, stretching and putting the gesso on, sanding – 4 times – quite a few more to do, on my large table is no room for anything else, but I sneak in some small paintings, just so I keep the paintbrushes in use (my excuse), feels kind . . . → Read More: It is a small world

“Seestuecke” (sea scapes) – continues …. dunes…. weather

sturm at Red Kliff

Second part of  ”See Stuecke”

“Weather Painting”

four as one – each 10×7″

My paintings are a confluence of abstraction and realism evolving from natural seascapes. Also based on the reality of seascapes the composition is generated in the studio and evolves into inner meaning of my live

“Color Rising . . . → Read More: “Seestuecke” (sea scapes) – continues …. dunes…. weather

Summer’s End

monkshood2

Monkshoods are late to bloom this year

All spring and early summer they were waiting for the sun

Shooting up to the sky – now they are 61/2’ and one is 8’ tall

But the blossoms are so beautiful and large

These are some of my favourite plants; they like to grow . . . → Read More: Summer’s End

Water Ways

water ways

                                     

                                                          I follow you out into open water

 

                                                     Hovering between blue and green

 

                                               Never looking up; never looking back

 

                                        Deep into the abyss under endless surges

 

                                  You erode me and rebuild me

 

                         Washing over me in swells and fingers

 

                  You speak . . . → Read More: Water Ways

Painting at the market

no name

 

Would you call it still Plain-Air painting when – yes  – you paint outside – but – no –  not painting the real sceneries

 I did a promotional marketing for our “Reach Museum and Gallery” in Abbotsford – painting and talking ( boy there are a lot of people still out . . . → Read More: Painting at the market