Artnotes: Wild Water

 

Montecorone   Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas 24 x 16"  60 x 40 cm  490.00  … I was beginning to see how the moment we incline action toward achievement, we drain the activity of joy; how anything we approach transactionally will never yield transcendence. I stopped swimming abruptly, disaffected and worn out. It would take me a quarter century to return to the water… from Waterlog by Roger Deakin And that, as well, was the rub for me, for many years. In Art School, I didn’t want to paint what I was told to paint, what I was expected to paint.  I was young and unguided, wild as water.   It made me change my college major from Art to Art History.  When I removed that pressure I felt free to be creative again. Morning Song     Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas panel   12 x 16"  30  x 40cm  350.00  I think about art school as the “leader” intends to pull the plug on loans and aid  for pursuing advanced degrees in the arts  at American colleges – it is like China in 1948.  Our friend Gengivan  left in that year, when Mao prohibited her further study of the piano.  She eventually opened a Chinese music center in Rambouillet, outside of Paris. Art is so important in our lives, it is a real privilege to be producing it.  Now that I am older, I let myself go with whatever I feel like painting.  Honeysuckle  Laurie Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  25 x17 "  61 x 43 cm  290.00 We played pool today at the Chinese café.  The Immortals weren’t with me, and I scratched when down to just two balls.  It’s a poor pool table, and the price is a far cry from the 25 cents a game the last time I partook.  We are going to go back.  Pool is one of those physical activities one needs to assimilate after practice. I think competitive sports are one of the things you MUST love to keep on playing and trying.   Like most things, it is those early days that are the greatest.  I remember the Catcher for the Torrington Twisters  telling us as we painted him, “I get to PLAY all summer”.  I learned a lot from that painting foray.  Although art and baseball are quite different, we both shared the passion for our work “ I don’t care who wins or loses, I just love the game.”  Georgetown House  (Seattle)   Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas panel 12 x 16"  30  x 40cm  350.00 My father, who was a remarkable runner (shoe manufacturers sent him models to try out) never wanted to compete.  Despite being invited to the Boston Marathon year after year, he declined.  He just loved to run. Dotty Dog   Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas panel 10 x 12"  25 x 30cm  250.00

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