Still Lifes

"It is not a matter of changing anything but of not grasping anything, and of opening our eyes and our heart."
- Jack Kornfield

Painting still life to me is about stopping to appreciate the minutiae of life, to perceive the sublime beauty of the commonplace. Rock, butterfly, rose, salt shaker, toad or shoe; all possess either a symmetry, proportion, countenance or even distortion which can be rendered in a painting as an interesting, beguiling piece of art.

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