Scone in the Russell Page Garden
Oil on Panel
6" x 8"
The painting posted is from a series painted in the Russell Page Garden at the Columbus Museum of Art. The garden is going away with the expansion of the museum. Ohio Plein Air Artists were invited to paint and preserve the memories. This painting does nothing to preserve the Russell Page Garden, but it was a beautiful night with beautiful light and so much fun to paint.
I love to read and credit my Father with that. I have vivid pictures of him sitting in his chair after dinner with a book in hand and classical music or an opera playing on the stereo. So I want to share from a book I just pulled off the art shelf,
Art & Soul, Notes on Creating by Audrey Flack. I hope she doesn't mind, there is more than one post in her musings.
“A work of art is the energy manifestation of the one who created it. It holds the spirit of the artist within the shapes forms, and colors.
The Mohawk Indians have a saying: ‘Spirits can be expressed as energy forms manifested in matter… A blade of grass is an energy form manifested in matter.. grass matter. The spirit of the grass is the unseen force which produces the species of grass and it is manifest to us in the form of real grass.’”
