These works were on display at Broadway Center for the Arts in Belleville, Illinois, during the 2005 Belleville Art Walk (October, '05).
This was my very first public exhibit. So much has happened since I got my first taste of putting my work before the public. Thanks, Tom Hohn, for encouraging me to exhibit.
Clockwise:
"Mood Indigo" at top.
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"Winter Coming"
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"In the Country"
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"Into The Woods" was purchased from the center by Patty Gregory, director of ART ON THE SQUARE, Belleville, during an art walk."Into The Woods"
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"Every good painter paints what he is." - Jackson Pollock
Interesting notes on Pollock:
It was Jackson Pollock who blazed an astonishing trail for other Abstract Expressionist painters to follow. De Kooning said, ``He broke the ice'', an enigmatic phrase suggesting that Pollock showed what art could become with his 1947 drip paintings.
It has been suggested that Pollock was influenced by Native American sand paintings, made by trickling thin lines of colored sand onto a horizontal surface. It was not until 1947 that Pollock began his ``action'' paintings, influenced by Surrealist ideas of ``psychic automatism'' (direct expression of the unconscious). Pollock would fix his canvas to the floor and drip paint from a can using a variety of objects to manipulate the paint.
