Chimney Point Nov 10, 2025
Paul Simon once sang; “Don’t know much about history”. Same goes for me. But I do know about fine painting possibilities, and there’s an abundance of both at Chimney Point. Most of this piece was accomplished on location over the course of two days. I set up in the shadow of the Lake Champlain Bridge and painted to the rhythm of passing traffic overhead. I even ducked underneath a few times to skirt the passing showers. From where I was sitting I couldn’t quite see the Champlain Memorial across the lake in Crown Point, New York. It was an easy decision to employ artistic license and move it into view for the painting.
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A nuanced change in style or technique perhaps? Like you adjusted your focus on a camera?
Very nice piece indeed!
Hello Sebastian, great to hear from you, and thank you! How to answer your question…when I don’t know?
You have been supporting my work for 30 years, so you would spot anything suspicious. Any change was not deliberate. At this point as an artist my main (conscious) decisions are what to paint and where to set up. Both are practical, logistical, rational choices made with the left brain. I can explain that stuff. Once that’s done and I shift into painting mode, style is the last thing I’m thinking about. In fact, I’m not really thinking all that much. All my focus and attention shifts away from the day to day theoretical mindset (where words, inner dialog, planning, etc live) and into, as Terrence McKenna said so well; “The felt presence of immediate experience, in the absence of theory.” Fully in tune with the present moment, in the embrace of nature, a sincere “wonder of it all” pervades. Terrance also said: “Astonishment is the appropriate response to reality.” I become riveted by what I’m perceiving though every sensory input, vision being the most pronounced of course. From this place, the work kind of unfolds by itself as I humbly attempt to translate that experience into paint. Regarding technique, ie the tools, ways, and means, I love and obsess over that stuff daily. But when I’m actually painting, there’s no time or space to think about that. Robert Henri said it best: “If a man has the soul of an artist, he needs a mastery of all the means of expression so he may command them, for with his soul in activity, he has much to say. The canvas, paints, brushes, hands and brains are but tools, to be guided by the soul on man.”
I look forward to viewing and potential purchase if it reacher my heart and center.
Thank you George!