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Portland
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| MY DETAILS |
| % OF INCOME FROM ART?: |
25% or less |
| $ YOU SPEND ON ART SUPPLIES EACH YEAR: |
$100-999 |
| LAST LOGIN: |
05/19/2008 16:04:48 |
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| MUSIC |
Just a bit of the music I love: Twinkly but eerie carnival music, my dear friend-the amazing Jason Becker, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Richard Davies, The Moles, Cardinal, Dating Godot, The Feelies, Yung Wu, Bob Fay, Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Guided By Voices, Malcolm Travis, Eric Matthews, Kaleidoscope/Fairfield Parlour, Judee Sill, Don McGlashen & the Mutton Birds, Stephen Malkmus, Pavement, The Shins, Spoon, Milton Nascimento, Lo Borges, The Honkers, Jorge Ben, Fernando Brant, Beto Guedes, Paula Morelenbaum, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, a lot of Brazilian Bossa Nova, Samba, etc., Selda Bagcan, Bulgarian Folk Music (most folk music), Kathleen Yearwood, Lloyd Cole, Ed Kuepper, The Marmalade, The Modern Lovers, Morgana King, Mable John, Mercedes Sosa, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, David Werner, Nick Drake, The Monochrome Set, My Morning Jacket, Hugh Masekela, Dave Pike, The Beatles, Genesis (the early years), Big Star, Mountain Goats, Voom, Bob Mould, Husker Du, Grant Hart, Lindsay Buckingham, The Verlaines, Graeme Downes, Tall Dwarfs, Chris Knox, Dimmer, Abel Tasmans, JPSE, The Chills, The Bats, The Clean, David Kilgour, Bailterspace, Look Blue Go Purple, The Lils, Goldbug, Straitjacket Fits, Neil Finn, Neutral Milk Hotel, Son Volt/Jay Farrar, Wilco, Durutti Column, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Earth Wind & Fire, The Isley Brothers, Olivia Tremor Control, Wire, Comsat Angels, The Jam, The Who, Nick Cave, Roger "Syd" Barrett, Pink Floyd (early stuff), Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead, Yes, ELP, Mecca Normal, Miriam Makeba, King Crimson, Bodine, Dennis Wilson, Quartet Tres Bien, Elton John, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Sly & the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Gnarls Barkley, Ron Hargett, Nive Nielsen--to name a few |
| BOOKS |
Honor Killing, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, And I Alone Survived, Into Thin Air, Alive, The Stranger Beside Me, The Perfect Storm, Notes From a Small Island, Man's Search For Meaning, The San Francisco Earthquake, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Somerset Studio magazine, Arts and Antiques magazine, National Geographic, Where the Wild Things Are, The Moon Jumpers (illustrated by Maurice Sendak), 1984, ARTFORUM, Notes From New Zealand, Frog and Toad (all their adventures), Alice in Wonderland, The Anything Box, We Have Always Lived In the Castle, The October Country, The Secret Garden, Cordury, A Summertime Song, The Underwater Melon Man, anything by Keri Hulme, ... |
| MOVIES |
#1 Fave: No Country for Old Men, then--and not in any particular order, Sicko, The Golden Compass, Eastern Promises, Down To the Bone, Michael Clayton, Deep Water, Ratatouille, The Illusionist, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93, Supersize Me, Touching the Void, Rain, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Two-Lane Blacktop, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Death In Venice, Babette's Feast, Animal House, Brazil, The Pianist, The Shawshank Redemption, Breaking the Waves, Sexy Beast, An Angel at My Table, Memento, anything Alfred Hitchcock, Gaslight, John Garfield movies, The Manchurian Candidate (original), A History of Violence, Cape Fear (the original with Robert Mitchum), William Castle films, Carnival of Souls, This is Spinal Tap, The Usual Suspects, anything by Ingmar Bergman, The Piano, Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hotel Rwanda, Resevoir Dogs, Magnolia, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Green Mile, Gladiator, The Deer Hunter, A Christmas Story, The Full Monty, It's a Wonderful Life, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Muriel's Wedding, The Party, The Pink Panther, Harold and Maude, Stranger than Paradise, Down By Law, Heavenly Creatures, Sling Blade, Office Space, Don't Look Now, The Others... |
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| ABOUT ME |
A LITTLE HISTORY
I am fortunate to have been brought into the world by two very creative parents so it was inevitable that I would have an interest in art. Most of what I know is self-taught, although I did spend one school year totally immersed in art classes at the City College of San Francisco from 1993 to 1994. Afterwards I spent the next several years traveling throughout New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. In the interim I had my daughter, Ella, my current muse.
I create images that are emotive and tantalizing - impressions representing the core of my imagination, from transient thoughts and deep-rooted memories to endured tribulations. I am fascinated by dreams and the haunting images the mind conjures up while we're asleep. Most of my work is as spontaneous as these unconsious images and I tend to work directly on the canvas, rather than drawing a preliminary study or mixing paints separately on a palette.
I am also interested in spiritualism - not necessarily in the sense that the living communicate with the dead, but more in the sense that I question where our energy goes after we die. In the wonderment of these questions I create dreamy landscapes that represent the state of passing from present life into the next state of being. They are both light and dark, depicting both joy and melancholy, often with the focal point being a window of light or an ethereal, winged being on a path into the unknown. I sometimes incorporate copies of vintage photos into these landscapes - visages of unknown people who have passed on, in order to give them a purpose and to honor those lives that are long forgotten.
I am a perpetual student of art and art history and I continue to study the work of masters, past and present. I am inspired by many great artists and it is my talented uncle, Mark Esper, who gave me my very first drawing lesson and whose own work has been instrumental in fueling my desire to persevere in this challenging career.
Besides art, another passion is music, and during 1998/1999 I played in the New Zealand band, Dating Godot, with Andrew Spittle and Nigel Duncan. We produced two cds: Everyone is Leaving and Nights Through Your Window. In 2000 I came back to the U.S. and have played around here and there, but nothing steady. I'm getting ready to do two shows with Richard Davies (The Moles, Cardinal) and Bob Fay (Sebadoh) at the Cake Shop in New York City on September 8th and 9th and who knows what will come of that. |
| TURN ON'S |
My beautiful daughter Ella, creating art, helping children, philanthropy, promoting the arts, music, writing poetry - stories - songs, singing, museums, books, playing my guitar, experiencing life, happy gardens, fitness, fun houses, melotrons, theremins, my shiny blue metallic Ibanez bass, looking at little things, tornado chasing, watching a good storm, the smell of rain, giraffes, sushi, coffee and tea, good wine, Lindeman's kriek & frambois, cultures of the world, hiking in the rain forest, Australia, kookaburras, emus, kangaroos, New Zealand, coincidences, fossils, Brazil, fruit & vegetables, sitting by the fire, holding hands, memories, the ocean waves, learning to knit, inventing things, people's life stories, outer space, globes & maps, animals and reptiles, blueberry pie, the bottom of the ocean, the wonders of the world, mysteries, the seasons, flowers, dancing barefoot, having my hair brushed, pasta, Christmas, finally learning to swim, significant others, the pursuit of happiness, sparkly twinkly things, fireworks, optical illusions, things in 3-D, pop-up books, good shoes, flowery twirly dresses, silver jewelry, lipstick, rock formations, fireflies, old churches and abbeys, Lanercost Priory, the Cumbria district, London, tunnels of trees, driving, cats & dogs, insects, fairies, fairy lights, the Northern lights, butterflies & dragonflies, ponds, shells, stones, found objects, falling stars and wishing on them, a good film, travel, forensic science, mountain-climbing (but only in my dreams), old friends, new friends, passion, hugs, people with a zest for life, positive thinkers, strong women, honesty, respect,integrity |
| TURN OFF'S |
Doom, gloom, negativity, lying, cheating, stealing, hatred, prejudice, waste, exploitation, corporate greed, political power, WAR! |
| HOBBIES |
Art, music, nature, reading, writing, creating, eating, drinking wine, coffee culture |
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