Maine Lake 5
oil on panel 8" x 10"
"All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."
Pablo Neruda
Maine Lake 2
oil on panel 8" x 10"
"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
Paul Cezanne
"For me, a landscape does not exist in it's own right,
since it's appearance changes at any moment."
Claude Monet
These are two studies done on the shore of Orange Lake near Whiting Maine,
during the last week of September - just got around to photographing them.
I am convinced that painting from the landscape, while being a humbling struggle before elements that never remain constant and are a continual struggle, elevates the painter to the level of a magician and a nuclear physicist. After all, one is compressing time while juggling light and space and form. This is the stuff of Einstein as well as Monet and Cezanne - and could only be attempted with the searching process of the poet such as Neruda. Enjoy!
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