Conscious World Art

Character is much easier kept than recovered.” – Thomas Paine (1737-1809) In 1977 I met fashion-photographer-turned-fine-art-photographer-turned-hatha-yoga-teacher-and-personal-guru Wingate Paine through mutual friend Barbara Somerfield, a book publisher whom I knew through Donald Weiser, owner of Samuel Weiser Inc. “Wingate Paine (1915-1987), was a member of a Mayflower New England family with ties to law, banking and […]

“I am not a man but a clown in trousers.” – George Balanchine (1904-1983) Recap: from my arrival in NYC in August 1968 until February of 1974, my life centered around Seventh Avenue, first as fashion designer, then as free-lance fashion illustrator. In the fall of 1973 I painted my first oil paintings, convincing myself […]

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” – Voltaire (1694-1778) 1962: as a budding teenage artist – cartoonist wannabe – there were lots of options in terms of who to imitate. A Walter T. Foster How to Draw… book on cartooning introduced me to the ease of imitating Disney-style cartoons, as shown in the drawing […]

“Dawn love is silver, wait for the west: old love is gold love, old love is best.” – Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929) Paternal grandparents: Weymouth Harris Cole (Jan 14, 1879 – Nov 19, 1973) & Edeth Belle Waterhouse Cole (Sep 1, 1880 – Jan 15, 1979). Married Dec 25, 1902, they lived to experience their […]

“There is such a sweet pain in parting, that I could hang forever in thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.” – Thomas Otway (1652-1685) 1962: Ah Romance! since there wasn’t any happening in my personal life that I acknowledged comfortably – to myself, let alone the object of my affections – […]

“There is music, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.” – Sir Thomas Browne (1905-1982) Camera Sketches, aka “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou…” • 2 photographic prints • 18″ x 24″ framed • collection of the artist. Inspired by the DaVinci Art Alliance’s […]