15 Jul ‘stretching canvases-attitude’ and ‘how a painting gets born”
always being born...
Life & Art
26 May Song
At 4:40 am when I got up to get ready for bed, (having fallen asleep dressed), I heard the first birdsong of the morning: one crystal clear 'full-sentence' undulating melody. Within minutes came a myriad of call-and response songs from all sides of my house...
25 May ‘hungry’
The staff at the Funeral Home is beginning to look like relatives. I hope we don't have to return for a good long while yet. My sister pointed to where I have a plot; she said she'd 'be right next to me,' to which I...
16 Apr Boston Arts and Entertainment Artist Q&A Examiner Visual artist Lorna Ritz announces upcoming exhibits and discusses her approach April 15, 12:09 AMArtist Q&A ExaminerJudy Pokras
Lorna Ritz and her pet, Kukumba, who she says is "not really a cat, but something I dreamt up." Photo courtesy of Mark Prince Visual artist Lorna J. Ritz has announced there will be an upcoming show of her work at the Edward Hopper House in Nyack,...
26 Jan Painting Statement
The way I work, one painting begets the one yet to come. The paintings grow out of each other. My paintings come from the things around me that I see, such as ancient mountains, (the...
26 Jan Northampton
“In Northampton some one went around lighting houses on fire while people slept around Christmas time, one right after the other. People died, and some lost their houses. Everyone was so nervous to sleep at night, but the arsonist was caught and confessed. The community...
26 Jan Winter 2010
Painting and Life Writings "My introduction to Jim Gahagan came as an undergraduate student of his at Pratt Institute in the 60's. I was also studying realist painting under Lennart Anderson at the Art Students League. I felt frustrated because something in me was not getting...
20 Mar Winter 2009
I only know winter is here because I succumbed to unpacking my Jeep of my portable outdoor studio, (drawing boards, two easels, stacks of oil crayons, paper, and recycled frames for new drawings). Three days in a row I set my easel up, only to...
20 Oct Fall 2008
I took students of mine to the Smith College Art Museum. One of the paintings I talked about the longest time is Monet's 'Poppy Fields,' forgetting even that the students were there. As I studied the painting, I made discoveries in this same painting I...
18 Mar South Africa 2007
South Africa has a most perfect balance of beauty and danger, (to the extremes of both), coupled with an imbalance between wealth and poverty, where anti-apartheid is still new, so society continues to act it out in subtle ways. For example, late this afternoon I...