Music & Time

In all the visual arts we are able to perceive the entire work at once so it is the relationships between all the components, isolated in a single moment of time that works upon us and determines our response to the whole. For painting, photography, sculpture, interior design, architecture and every other art which involves [...]

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Excellence – What is it?

I never write to this post without having enjoyed at least two glasses of wine. We can find it in anything, from a one inch long, pewter bottle opener that so simply and easily does what it was designed to do, to a concert hall which can be filled with as many people who want [...]

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The Case For Experimental Expressionism

Not everyone can draw at the level of Da’Vinci or paint like Turner yet people crave creative expression. Bernard Berenson, art historian of the early and middle 1900′s remarked about Picasso, that it was clear he could not draw like the masters so sought another method of expression. He wasn’t alone. Many thousands can’t come [...]

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Not about enameling

I do enameling. Enameling is an ancient art form which involves fusing ground glass to metal. I work in copper and at my level it isn’t exactly an art form – more of a craft. I make enameled what I call WaterFlowers for my fountains. But like the title says, this isn’t about that Part [...]

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Ornament & Art

I’ve often wondered how ceremony came into being. You know, a line of men on the right holding banners, matched by an identical line on the left and in front of them trumpeteers, also lined up perfectly. A red carpet is rolled out and the King struts down it with someone holding the train of [...]

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