Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Recycled Still LIfe Objects



While organizing my studio this month I came across an old painting that inspired me. It is entitled "Bottle with Roses" but it really should have been "Ode to Morandi". I was living upstate NY when I did this so I don't think I had seen much of Morandi's work in person (books,yes). I was fortunate to see a show of his last year. I think I always carry around with me some of his influence. The stillness and the mysterious quality of his bottles are fascinating. Anyway, since I'm on this "cup" journey I wanted to use one or more of the same bottles in a new painting. The other two bottles made it to my desk, but didn't seem to work in the painting. Maybe another day... POR

2 comments:

kookaburra said...

Welcome to the world of blogging!

I love that your paintings are so small & beautiful.

Megan Barron

Mary Sheehan Winn said...

Another beauty.
I'm looking forward to spending the winter with your book doing the specific color palettes, on teeny boards of course ;)