Francis Bacon documentary by David Hinton (1988)

-work regularly.
-inspiration comes from regular work.
-you make your own technique, trial & error.

"Trying to do it, that's all."

-a deeply ordered chaos.

"to do with your own instinct & sensibility to turn it one way or the other."

-put yourself (as an artist) @ risk.

-every mark to be like the first mark.

"I have a very optimistic nature."
-Francis Bacon

Last shoot day (night!) with HK & JPC!

Giorgio Morandi,
Via Fordazza 36,
Bologna, ITALY

July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964

Q?: What's your position?

A: Keep going!

Paul Cezanne, "Sous-Bois", 1885, oil on canvas.

Patterson Ewen, "Moon over water", 1977, acrylic & gouged plywood.

Titles (2007-09)

Wing it
Old ground
Deep Wish
Do we?
All paths lead home
Swish (for Paul Lynde)
Poor Tom
Text me
Cloud mountain
Whirling mountain
Pegasus & the Unicorn
Seer
Echolalia
Oh lad!
Rock Land (I)
Monk Land (II)
Wolf skin
Lord on High
Mystic thunder
Guido
People say crazy things
OK Anxiety device

Marcel Barbeau, "Les combustions originelles", 1951, huile sur toile.

Edmund Allyn, "Abstrait", 1962, huile sur toile. ($28 000 CAN.)

"A painter should paint not only what he sees before him, but what he sees within himself."

-Caspar David Friedrich
(1774-1840)

Caspar David Friedrich, "Monk by the sea", 1808-10, oil on canvas.

"Fix your course to a star & you can navigate any storm."

-Leonardo da Vinci

"Beauty is an awareness in the mind."

"The goal of life is happiness & to respond to life as though it were perfect is the way to happiness. It is also the way to positive art work."

"The way of an artist is entirely a different way. It is a way of surrender. He must surrender to his own mind."

"Make happiness your goal."
 

-Agnes Martin