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Tag: zenmondays
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The rice field by Kashima shrine at noon. Documenting with care.
It was only meant to be a few days away from this other mixed media painting, weeks at most. Yet, here we are on the first week of April and the Kashima shrine painting is still not complete. For a while I simply found it hard to paint a landscape set in Noto. Does this…
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After the Rain in Suzu. On recognizing inspiration.
“Where to next?” That one question is always staring you in the face as an artist or writer. The minute you set down your brush after writing your signature on a painting – in this case “After the Rain in Suzu”. When you hit send on that email with the final “good for print” on…
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Closing the circle on the season of fresh leaves – “The spring fifer”.
The boundaries between process and meaning. Before I left for the season of fresh green leaves in Japan I fell under the spell of this white blossom branch on a late spring rainy day and started a new painting in “The bookbinder’s world” series. It was the week of Zurich’s Spring festival, and I had…
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Keeping the link between ink, nature and poetry alive.
In between lotus painting sessions I painted a postcard view from another well-known Zurich garden – the Rietberg Park.
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Paint the lotus season. Rinse. Repeat.
I have been meaning to do this for a while, but somehow I was always in the wrong place at the right time of year. Recording the development of the lotus season from a single place in Zurich – the small pond of the Old Botanical Garden.
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A rainy day, at level with the treecreeper behind brushed green clouds.
I have to admit, as much as I love the warmth of spring blossoms, there is something special about the musical rhythm of a garden or park on a rainy day. Have you noticed it too?