Sold a large framed print to unknown buyer – through RB – August 2007 Another version, less bright Seascapes / New Zealand / Frogs / Lensbaby / Infrared / Industrial / Spam / Panorama / Landscapes / Real Estate Series / People
Westfield – Nov 2007 – I’m not sure if it’s British or Dutch, it gives me that old pub feel.
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
Westfield, NJ – Nov 2007 – Surreal Version
I do. And everything she symbolizes – the familiar sights and sounds, the period of our lives embedded in long term memory with our mothers, sisters, aunties and neighbors in it, the uniform sound of a sewing machine intertwined with casual chitchat. I still remember those gentle hands, gliding skillfully over soft materials, more than capable of turning a piece of fabric into lovable garments. Even my first girlfriend, the sweetest of souls, from a family of many, used to make clothes for herself, in patterns and colors she desired, as tight as I could wish, to perfectly fit the young man’s eye. Nowadays, the skill has migrated to distant lands, in search of a new pair of hands, not necessarily gentler, certainly cheaper. Time flies. We are left to do what people whose expiry date is fast approaching do – recycle the recollection of the good old days, the age when we were young and good looking. Now, we are only good looking. Such is life.
Westfield – Nov 2007
Version uploaded and accepted at OE They didn’t like the colour in this one / NEW ZEALAND
To everything, / Turn, Turn, Turn / There is a season; / Turn, Turn, Turn. / And a time to every creature, under heaven. This photo is purposely grainy and choppy, to show the cycle of life. / Old, new and everything in between. / Those leaving, and those just coming. / Those with so much life, / And those with so much ahead. All things work together for a purpose unseen and unknown….!
Westfield – April 2008
Garwood, NJ – May 2008
Garwood, NJ – May 2008
This is Lake Gunn, on the way to Milford Sound, on the South Island of New Zealand. The lake is within the boundary of the Fiordland National Park, and is surrounded by native bush. It was summer and early morning when this shot was taken. This was taken with a Canon DSLR EOS 350D camera.
Cross Estate Gardens – Bernardsville, NJ – July 2008 – Shot as an HDR, handheld.
A fact never to be underestimated – someone, out there, may still call this their birthplace. It captured my attention while in the car on my way south. A short walk on the gravel road is all it took to reach the old house that parted with its best years sometime in the last millennium. That colour, the textures of decaying wood, rusting roof and the remains of the dead tree, fallen where it lived, still searching with its long fingers for the occupants, long gone. I was mesmerised by the scene. There is something profoundly sad about the remains of buildings, any kind of ruins. Is it because they remind us of the inevitable and our disposability in this world. And all the usual questions: how old is it, who lived in it, and will it make it to the next autumn or even next week? Time to go, I had better move. The sky of ‘I mean business’ colour has been gathering strength for a while. Its forward party already seized the strategic heights from the playful patches of the late afternoon sun. When it hits, it will hit hard. On the way back, just one more look … enough time to take another breath of impressions, to treasure, and an image to share, with you.
Sitated near Fox Glacier Lake Matheson is protected from wind, thus producing a mirror image of Aoraki / Mt Cook and Mt Tasman. The lake was formed about 14,000 years ago and is in a valley floor. It is surrounded by native white pine, red pine,flax and numerous species of ferns. This is New Zealand’s most photographed lake Canon 400D Canon 18/55mm lens / This work has now sold
featured in SOLO-EXHIBITION 10-19-2009 / featured in The World as We See It 10-12-2009 / featured in Pop Art 07-20-2009 / featured in ImageWriting 06-13-2009 / featured in Globes, Spheres & Curves *05-09-2009 / featured in Exceptional Ekphrasis 05-06-2009 / featured in OUTSIDERS 05-01-2009 / featured in Shapes & Patterns 04-15-2009 I don’t drink coffee I take tea my dear / I like my toast done on one side / And you can hear it in my accent when I talk / I’m an Englishman in New York See me walking down Fifth Avenue / A walking cane here at my side / I take it everywhere I walk / I’m an Englishman in New York I’m an alien I’m a legal alien / I’m an Englishman in New York / I’m an alien I’m a legal alien / I’m an Englishman in New York If, “Manners maketh man” as someone said / Then he’s the hero of the day / It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile / Be yourself no matter what they say I’m an alien I’m a legal alien / I’m an Englishman in New York / I’m an alien I’m a legal alien / I’m an Englishman in New York Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety / You could end up as the only one / Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society / At night a candle’s brighter than the sun Takes more than combat gear to make a man / Takes more than a license for a gun / Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can / A gentleman will walk but never run If, “Manners maketh man” as someone said / Then he’s the hero of the day / It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile / Be yourself no matter what they say I’m an alien I’m a legal alien / I’m an Englishman in New York / I’m an alien I’m a legal alien / I’m an Englishman in New York BASESHAPES CREATED WITH INCENDIA /
Bokeh hearts combined with a hand-held piece of paper with handwritten love message (I love you so much)!
New growth will grown on its own, but as the predominant animal on this earth we are obligated to give nature a helping hand. Second in the enviroment series for the new gallery show
Early morning reflection of New Zealands Southern Alps in the tranquil water of Lake Matheson, Westland, New Zealand
Featured in ! 100% ! on Sept. 21, 2009 / Placed 2nd in Happy Haven Photography ~ (2 per day) “October Avatar” challenge on Sept. 28, 2009 / Winner in Backyard Photography (NO MACROS… “October Avatar” challenge on Sept. 29, 2009 / Winner in COUNTRY GARDENS! Come… “Pumpkins and Flowers” challenge on Oct. 1, 2009 / Featured in Country Bumpkin on Oct. 2, 2009 / Featured in COUNTRY GARDENS! Come… on Oct. 2, 2009 / Featured in All About Your Best Work on Oct. 11. 2009 / Featured in Alphabet Soup (Letter G) on Oct. 23, 2009 / Placed 3rd in Shapes & Patterns “Pumpkin Shapes” challenge on Oct. 28, 2009 I grew these gourds myself accidentally by burying the old gourds the previous fall. ☺ This is autumn color in New England, specifically Connecticut.
new still life pastel by Maria Paterson / on black primed colourfix paper 50cm x 68cm 4481v “original for sale” See my new calendar of still life art for 2010 / for a great CHRISTMAS GIFT my bubblesite / my website Featured in impressionist art / Featured in impessionism cafe / Featured in Symposium of Modern Realists
Its a fun idea :) Created for a car challenge.
new work, still life pastel 35cm x 45cm on colourfix paper see 2010 still life art calendar / / my bubblesite Featured in Pastels Portraits,Florals & still life
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