Monday, November 17, 2008

Stuart Shils


Stuart Shils is showing at Tibor de Nagy November 20; an open air landscape painter, He works on a small scale finishing in one session. His work exudes a beautiful mood almost of lost memory - like a poem fragment or a translation - only the most important things emerge. His quiet paintings are restful to the eye and spirit.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932


An Artist who covered many surfaces besides canvas with paint - signs - walls - fireplaces - glass - ceramics - cabinets - did woodcuts - etc. etc. she never signed her work and painted mostly for her own pleasure. She was a force of nature - the model for many characters in the novels of DH Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham-Lewis.....

She lived with Lytton Strachey for seventeen years and ended her life shortly after he died.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Emily Nelligan


Emily Nelligan an artist who has been working in Charcoal In a very small 8X10" format for the past 50 years is having a show at the Alexandre Gallery In the Fuller building about 57th Street in NY is described by Stuart Shils as a prophetess.

Seeing these reminds me why I am an artist - OH that is why.