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The Grey Tongue of the River, 2026
Oil on Hand Primed Panel
24 x 19
Oil on Hand Primed Panel
“Catching this fish, being outside, laughing with my husband, and the difficult feelings of seeing life leave this immeasurably beautiful creature are all woven into the painting. The action of making the painting, looking at the fish over and over is not a separate reality but one that is integrated into the mystery of being alive. The hand remembers what the heart knows.
“I brought this rainbow trout home, placed it in the melting snow of spring and painted it. The fish told me to go get the vase and the violets, and the violets themselves told me not to paint all the stems. I painted The Grey Tongue of the River for myself to take pleasure in looking and to think in paint – and now the painting is for you. Its aim is to draw you into a relationship with what is real, remembered, and imagined; and render in you an otherwise dormant expression that simultaneously surprises you and yet is familiar within yourself.
“Painting is unique in that it allows us to ‘look at what was looked at’ (envisioned), encountered in the same language as looking. Without words, painting is born of experience and shared as an experience.”
24 x 19
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The Grey Tongue of the River, 2026
Oil on Hand Primed Panel
24 x 19
“Catching this fish, being outside, laughing with my husband, and the difficult feelings of seeing life leave this immeasurably beautiful creature are all woven into the painting. The action of making the painting, looking at the fish over and over is not a separate reality but one that is integrated into the mystery of being alive. The hand remembers what the heart knows.
“I brought this rainbow trout home, placed it in the melting snow of spring and painted it. The fish told me to go get the vase and the violets, and the violets themselves told me not to paint all the stems. I painted The Grey Tongue of the River for myself to take pleasure in looking and to think in paint – and now the painting is for you. Its aim is to draw you into a relationship with what is real, remembered, and imagined; and render in you an otherwise dormant expression that simultaneously surprises you and yet is familiar within yourself.
“Painting is unique in that it allows us to ‘look at what was looked at’ (envisioned), encountered in the same language as looking. Without words, painting is born of experience and shared as an experience.”
24 x 19
Oil on Hand Primed Panel
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The Grey Tongue of the River, 2026
Oil on Hand Primed Panel
24 x 19
Oil on Linen Mounted on Cradled Panel
25 x 30
“Catching this fish, being outside, laughing with my husband, and the difficult feelings of seeing life leave this immeasurably beautiful creature are all woven into the painting. The action of making the painting, looking at the fish over and over is not a separate reality but one that is integrated into the mystery of being alive. The hand remembers what the heart knows.
“I brought this rainbow trout home, placed it in the melting snow of spring and painted it. The fish told me to go get the vase and the violets, and the violets themselves told me not to paint all the stems. I painted The Grey Tongue of the River for myself to take pleasure in looking and to think in paint – and now the painting is for you. Its aim is to draw you into a relationship with what is real, remembered, and imagined; and render in you an otherwise dormant expression that simultaneously surprises you and yet is familiar within yourself.
“Painting is unique in that it allows us to ‘look at what was looked at’ (envisioned), encountered in the same language as looking. Without words, painting is born of experience and shared as an experience.”