My newest painting is inspired by Frederick Delius’s Sea Drift, an amazing choral and orchestral work with Walt Whitman’s poetry as text. Virtually unknown during his lifetime, other than in Europe, the introspective composer continued making music into old age and bad health. The 1993 recording I listened to was an early performance by baritone Bryn Terfel, [...]

The town center of Avondale Estates, Georgia, within walking distance from where I now live, resembles Princeton, New Jersey’s main downtown block, where I grew up. That synchronicity is slightly disconcerting. You can go home again, at least aesthetically. Both used a Tudor revival style for their visual reference, although sprawling directly across Nassau Street and [...]

The Y has been closed all week, no lap swimming. The roads have been too icy to drive and almost everyone in Atlanta has had the week off, including city leaders – City Halls are closed, no mail delivery, no garbage pickup. Anyone would think we’d had 30″ of snow. Nope, only three. I’m about [...]

Last night it began snowing big fluffy flakes that Bootsy the cat decided were pretty fantastic. She ran down the snow covered steps, jumped and pawed at the white stuff, did a couple of pirouettes – and then raced at top speed across the yard into the back ‘woods’. My neighbor’s woods, the ones I’ve [...]

Artists are not actors, they don’t usually do well on video or in film. Most will admit that they never know what they’re doing, even after the work is finished. So unless you tape an art historian or critic, or happen on a garrulous and charismatic personage – maybe like Gulley Jimson – you’re flat [...]