Below is an excerpt of comments from Wolf Kahn, a noted landscape painter that Christopher Volpe did in 2017.  Here is a link to the recent article that Christopher did and posted at Streamline Publishing.

https://streamlinepublishing.com/inside-art/what-life-should-be-about/

After reading the article from Christopher Volpe, and looking at Wolf Kahn's work,  I find a kinship to the words that Wolf Kahn used to describe why he painted and what a painting is and what a painting meant to him in his life.

‘What Life Should Be About’

I try in my painting to express my sense of what life should be about – life in the sense of being large-spirited and generous, to not get involved in small issues. It’s very easy to get involved in small issues in painting. I want the whole painting to be like one big movement, the largest possible issue. Of course, it’s very difficult to do because you have to do it through a whole series of small moves.

My painting sort of proceeds through a series of mistakes …. that’s how you learn, how you get angry at the painting, how you generate energy – there’s something about the process itself that you have a feeling is very much like life. People live from day to day – I paint from moment to moment.

A painting is really the record of a moment of discovery, a moment in your life, a moment in your sensibility, and then of course, like everything else, you find a value in it that you want to share with the rest of humanity, because you consider yourself everyone’s brother and friend. So you hand it on and sometimes you get lucky and it’s accepted.”

I will be showing 2 paintings at the Galley ABQ show in April 2021.  There is planned a reception on April 2nd, 2021 from 5 -8 pm. 

The Art of Quarantine

February 22 - May 12, 2021

curated by Gallery Director Regina Held

I have 2 paintings in this show and sale.  I hope everyone can get by to see them on display starting July 22, 202 in Corsicana, Texas, at "The Warehouse Living Art Center". 

If you are in the Albuquerque area, please come and see the South Valley Visions Show at the Guitierez Hubbell House in the South Valley.  I have 5 paintings in the show.   They were all painted of scenes in the South Valley which includes farm fields, acequia's, and typical scene's from the south valley.  There are other paintings by members of the PALS (Plein Air Land-scapers) paint group I belong to in the show also, of scenes all painted in the south valley.  The show will go until Feb 23rd at the Guitierez-Hubbell house.

I have 2 beautiful plein aire paintings being shown in this show, see details below.

If anyone is in Texas, please go visit the OPS Show and Sale "Plein Vision in Miniature" that is at the:

The Warehouse Living Art Center 119 West 6th Avenue Corsicana, Texas 75110

From August 12, 2019 to September 26, 2019.

I am honored that my recent painting titled Texas Cypress Creek Study has been juried into the SouthWest Artists National SmallWorks Show at the Mena Gallery in Mena Arkansas.  It will be displayed in the gallery in Mena, Arkansas from May 2 to May 26. 

I wanted to post a picture of Cottonwood Friends painting framed as was shown in the PAPNM 9th National Juried Show in Santa Fe in November at Sorrel Sky Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

My painting, Cottonwood Friends will be a part of the PAPNM 9th Juried Show.  The opening reception and awards will be held Nov. 3rd at 5:00 p.m.  See the link below to Sorrel Sky Gallery page with further background information.

"PAPNM 9th NATIONAL JURIED MEMBERS SHOW"
Paintings on Display at Sorrel Sky Gallery: November 3 – November 26, 2017
Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony: (Open to the Public) Friday, November 3, 5:00pm – 7:30pm

https://sorrelsky.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/sorrel-sky-gallery-to-host-9th-national-juried-papnm-members-show/

This is one of my paintings that I did for the PAPNM Spring Paintout and Show.   It is on display at the Jemez Fine Art Gallery in Jemez Springs, NM. until the end of May.