There Is Many A Slip Twixt Cup And Lip

To be stuck is a pretty terrible place to find oneself. One minute flying along , having an uplifting and optimistic dialogue with myself and then…where do I go or even where did I go! I had an expectation, hope, a goal without a vision, but now I am disoriented and lost. It is nice to have adventures and do fun things when painting is not working out. However, it seems that the only way to get unstuck is to paint and even to paint over it, and paint until my painterly path reappears .

I paint most mornings and so I have an ongoing painterly discussion from one painting to the next. Starting a painting is exciting and challenging. Finishing one is fulfilling . There are lots of slips in between. Options are examined. Decisions are made. I think I got stuck on a verbal narrative.

As an abstract painter I tell a different kind of story. It is a story that begins with paint, shapes, lines and color. It grows from my personal and changing attraction to these elements. It could be that the bigger reason that I got stuck was because I simply lost contact with the place in me that makes the paintings.

At one point I looked at another painting on my wall and it was as if a little worm wiggled into my brain and said “hello…can you hear me?”and I replied, “Yes, I hear me now.”

2 thoughts on “There Is Many A Slip Twixt Cup And Lip”

  1. Willette Brown
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    Perfect

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