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Kitsune: Ghosts and Shadows at Three Stones Gallery  2020

5/18/2020

 
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Despite the pandemic closing everything down, my annual dual show is now up at the gallery. They are doing their best to give virtual tours and they can have showings by appointment. Perhaps by the next week or two they will be able to selectively allow the public in. It's great to see so many Kitsune together (not in my home!). There is one more in the window . Will post my latest statement concerning this series
in the About the Artist section. The show is up until 6/23.

April 2020

4/8/2020

 
It has been a long time since I have posted. I realize looking back that it is perhaps in my best interest to wait before featuring my latest work because I so often keep working on paintings after my initial thought that it is finished. I will have to delete a few images from my blog and site.

That being said, the Kitsune series is now officially Kitsune:Ghost &Shadows.​ The series consists of 17 paintings thus far. I have made a video so one can view 16 of them (one is at 3Stones Gallery) in my home and in the studio. See my ldk-art page on Facebook or view it on Youtube from my Video page. There is so much I can talk about but I tried to keep it to a minimal so one can just LOOK.

You'll see influences from 3 artists: Kiyoshi Saito, Paul Klee and Stuart Davis. Using color to balance the composition is key. Every painting has to have it's own unique palette.
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End of year update: Kitsune series

11/10/2019

 
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 The Japanese influences continue. I ventured away from using the torii image and have just featured the kitsune (sacred fox :a messenger of the god Inari)) . As always , I like to experiment with colors and textures .  
The Kitsune/Saito series (see right hand side) is based off the works of the print maker Kiyoshi Saito .These are my very latest paintings. I chose the palette from a previous painting in the Calder series . Primary colors were his feature (especially red). However you can see I veered from this idea in the Saito series #4 (bottom).used pop colors instead. 

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On the left are works inspired from the show The Life of Animals in Japanese Art which I saw this summer in DC.
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Japanese Influences

5/28/2019

 
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  The Japanese Influences series goes forth without any Inuit Influences!
    The two latest (above) are still an off shoot of the one lower right which was the first in this series on paper. The spice tone  palette was achieved by using a red oxide gesso as a base layer. The bottom right one had black gesso as a base. What a difference in feel! I am weaving the Kitsune(fox) image into fragmented parts in the above while on the above right the foxes as reduced a ghostly outline. I am playing more with abstraction but still want to use imagery from myths and stories. The torii (gates) are compelling to use for layering and bring about a strong vertical and horizontal line and form.
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Spring Update

4/15/2019

 
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Here's what Three Stones Gallery is currently showing of my work. The blue Dual Owl has been recently updated. There are three paintings in the the Dual Owls series.The white Inuit figure is the 1st in my Calder Series. It's combining a section of an Inuit print called "Juggling Balls" with two images of Calder's mobiles.
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Inuit/japanese Inlfuences: Torii and Sedna 2019
This is the 2nd painting in what seems to be another series.  This time about Torii. Torii are the gates that divide the mundane world from the spiritual. This work is on canvas and is enveloped all in the many ranges of red. It seems to suggestive a subtle narrative. Sedna (the Inuit sea goddess) seems to be floating through a series of Torii. Did she come down from Mt. Fuji?
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This is a small painting on canvas. It started out as a painting with a Matisse influence that was not working out. 90% of it got painted over. Now it has more of a Paul Klee aura.
I used his The Goldfish, 1925 and the Black Prince, 1927 for the  dark the dream-like palette with luminous highlights. The images are Japanese and Inuit. It all relates to transformation.

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This is my most recent painting. Inuit/Japanese Influences: Torii & Fox 2019, pastel, gouache on paper (41"Hx29.5"W) unframed
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You can see here what helped inspire the painting. We notice so many of these cloth rectangles over entrances in Japan. when I found this one (on the internet of course) I was thrilled. This is over my studio entrance from the house
I took many photos and projected them onto paper and did over-lays.
The fox is Kitsuni, the assistant to the god Inari, and has the power to transform. The syllabics say "fox" in Inuktitut.

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Lastly, a few of my life drawings. I will be continuing the weekly sessions until June. It's good practice for me. I haven't used figures in my works for many long years!

Japanese Influences merge with Inuit ones

1/27/2019

 

My long term series Inuit Influences consists of a melding of artists,&/ or themes. They are about juxtaposition. They are also about color.
My paintings embrace the style/feel of an admired artist and incorporate that image directly or indirectly with an Inuit one. 
I often use the theme of transformation which is prevalent in Inuit mythology and many other cultures.

This latest painting, Inuit/Japanese Influences: Kitsune got started when I decided I wanted to use a sections of Shinto torii gates.
Prior to an entry of a shinto or buddhist shrine one passes through a Torii gate which let’s you you pass out of the material world into the spiritual.

Much is happening in this painting.
Kitsune tsuki is a fox messager for the god Inari. Kitsune are able to possess human beings which for humans can be good or bad.
In the upper left hand corner are images of the porcelain alter offerings. Often the statues at shrines have bibs. The white band through the center of the painting has an Inuit fox merging with Inukitut syllabics which say fox.
I have given him/her some of the Kitsune spirit indicated by the yellow ball and tip of the tail.

 I have used Inuit syllabics for many years as pattern integrating with the subject matter.Here I use both languages.
In Japan the color red is associated with the sun and happiness.
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Inuit/Japanese Influences:Kitsune pastel & oil on canvas:       44"Hx40"W      2019

2018 was a very good year for me in so many ways.

12/31/2018

 
I took several weeks of a life drawing studio held art the Munroe Center for the Arts here in Lexington. Very casual but serious artists doing their interpretations of two very different models.
I pinned a few up in the studio. Some I worked on when I brought them home, but improvement was about 50/50. I found it interesting to work with figures again..it's been a very long time.  I will continue with this diversion from painting in 2019. 

Meanwhile, my Japanese inspired painting, which will be called Inuit/Japan Influences: Kitsumi Tsuki will be finished soon....
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November Update

11/25/2018

 
This weekend was the Boston Baltic Centennial which included an art show. Because of my Estonian heritage, I had submitted three works. 

Last month Erik and I had a journey of a lifetime traveling to Japan. Tokyo and Kyoto were amazing but because of our guided electric bike tour, we experienced the rural Noto Peninsula which has retained a great deal of the Japanese landscape and history.

It has had a direct effect on my next painting. If you were on the Butterfield and Robinson trip with us you knew this was coming. When I finish it, I will post it immediately, hopefully in December. 
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September Update

9/22/2018

 
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The show at Three Stones Gallery opened on Sept. 6th.  The reception was on the 20th. A good crowd convened and enjoyed the show. It's always great to talk to people about what my work is about. I am holding my special visitor, my granddaughter Olympia who is now age 4 months.
The Spirit of Place, The Spirit of Culture will be in the front gallery space, Azure, until Oct. 20th. After  that time some of my work will be on view in the Gallery Beryl at all times.
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Below is my most recent painting: Inuit Influences: Transformation Totem: Contrasts . It's a diptych on canvas. It's been a while since I painted on canvas. It is different than paper but it has many attributes including not having to get it framed (right away anyway). The left panel is the mirror image of the right and it's a real play on contrasts. It has a yin/yang pulse to it. I felt that each panel wanted be to the more dominate one. The colors really sing . It has a great deal of texture which is hard to capture in a photo. The Inuktitut syllabics I selected translate to the words transformation (at the bottom) as well as the words shaman, spirit, bird and goose.
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August Update

8/25/2018

 
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I am quite excited about the upcoming show at Three Stones Gallery. You'll see many more photos for my September update.


















PictureInuit /Gottleib Influences: The Spirit of Pauta's Bear - 2018
I have made one more painting featuring a polar bear created by the Inuit artist Saila Pauta. Pauta's bears are very highly collectable and he is one of the Inuit culture's most famous artists.

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