Journal
inspiration, Perspective, and process 

Now well into his seventies, artist Norman Carr has vigorously reinvented himself as an abstract or non-objective painter.

As a report card grade, “C” designates mediocrity. Place names that begin with that letter are anything but. In spelling and...

This year’s major painting was sold during an early preview of the 2024 National Watercolor exhibition which recently opened at Mark Arts...

Hardedge painting, concrete art, and formalism are terms with merit, but a summary of two other art movements will...

Songwriters such as Paul Simon and Paul McCartney have claimed that on rare occasions the melody and lyrics of iconic songs in their...

As I consider the letter B, I wonder, is it just me or does “B” begin more than its fair share of place names? Moreover, the letter might be

The Mark Arts School of Creativity Salon 2024 Exhibition will be open August 2 - September 21. This annual exhibition is one of many...

In my very early 20s I wandered along the canals of Amsterdam and spent a lonely, cold Christmas in Aachen. Before that decade was over...

What I call “pure painting” is a concept that has prevailed in American aesthetics since at least the 1940s. Most prominent among its...

Father’s Day is this weekend in the United States. Whether you refer to your patriarch as father, dad or pop, please take a moment to...

The link between poetry and painting is well established, wrapped in the term “ekphrasis,” what I call the poem’s attempt to recreate...

In Circle Suite No. Four, the lowly paper grocery bag has been degraded and rendered useless for carrying groceries. Reassembled, the paper

Were there always ghosts and visions over this hill?... In "The Palace" windows I saw flickers of movement: one split second an acrobat...

Recent paintings were accepted for the juried 55th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition which opens in Hays, Kansas on April 27.

Might the poet, songwriter or artist prod confession and nurture beauty when and where beauty can be found?