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JOB: Oil painter
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% OF INCOME FROM ART?: 25% or less
$ YOU SPEND ON ART SUPPLIES EACH YEAR: $2,500-4,999
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LAST LOGIN: 05/02/2008 18:29:10
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GREGORY ALBRIGHT
Inspired by lyrical lines and lively colors, these paintings develop out of my feeling and response to landscape motifs and natural forms. I am inspired by the abundance and working of water in the New England landscape, in contrast to my childhood home in California. I enjoy painting the bucolic moods where I live in Vermont, and imbuing these with idealism and whimsy. The initial drawings sometimes serve as a tool for an imaginative exploration, and occasional glimpse into the spiritual forces working within our organic world.

New work explores landscape as a voice of nature’s expression, force with its own destiny, vitality and independence from humankind. I explore nature as personified in all of its wonder, both real and imagined through landscape. I often include animals, archetypes, dryads or nudes in my paintings. I also work as a figurative sculptor. The discipline of sculptural work informs my painting, and develops my sense of nature's turgidity and forces. Likewise, painting has trained my eye for sculpture and developed sensitivity for detail and value.

I exhibit work regularly. I have studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, with the Russian painter, Ludmila Gayvorinsky, and sculptor W.J. Williams at the former studio of Augustus Saint Gaudens. My studio is at the Historic Woolen Mill in White River Junction.


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Life in Vermont is too full of things like snow shoveling, mowing, splitting wood, weeding, making pumpkin pie and swatting black flies to have a hobby, except perhaps, chatting on the 'ArtButt'.


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05/12/2008 19:43:29
new painting, Shade, is 16 x 12.. I am trying to get some new smaller work for paradise city, just so I have less expensive paintings this time


From: mjblanco
05/09/2008 13:56:45

I remember that the painting at the auction had trees. I think it was about 2 feet wide(?) It definitely looked like one of your paintings.  I don't coach for Nordic (but they do keep trying to pinch my players,) though my daughter played for them about 8 years ago.  Trevor Squirrel was the director and it was right after Far Post broke off, so it was a pretty miserable experience.  Nordic trains in Essex, so that must be quite a dedicated boy you have there to commute from Hartland.

 I'm the middle school girls coach and coach the U-14, U-13 and U-12 boy's city club team with Bob Day, the Burlington HS coach.  The U-13 is the first team we've had go D1, but this is their first year, so I think we are going to get shellacked.

 I'll look for you at Art's Alive.  Maybe I should wear a carnation or something.

 -Marcia



From: mjblanco
05/08/2008 11:58:54

Hi Greg!
I do plan to be at the Arts Alive. I'll look forward to meeting you. Were you at the auction last month? I saw your work but didn't know what you looked like.  Also, I went online to try and find the waterlss litho class you mentioned but couldn't find anything at their website. Is it still going on?  (It's soccer season and I'm coaching two teams, so I'm not getting on my computer too much these days.  Sorry for the delay in responding.

 .Marcia



From: karafree1
05/07/2008 09:13:01
Sync moment because this link was sent to me today as I finished writing my last comment to you....right on topic...


From: karafree1
05/07/2008 09:10:10

OH WOW!   another sync moment


 http://208.131.157.96/fce/content/images/steve_bhaerman.mp3


check this out 


 


Do you know of Bruce Lipton? 



From: karafree1
05/07/2008 08:17:23
Yes!  thank you for the Alex Grey note....Been enjoying his website...Surprised I haven't already come across him as I spend much time with this kind of thought....


From: karafree1
05/07/2008 08:04:20
Hey Greg,

Ha, You may already know more about Teilhard than I.....


49%?  how scary!  I do not understand why science cannot also be God Inspired.


I personally am one of those who believe duality is a misperception,  The Grand illusion.


And wonder if it really is necessary inorder to experience life in the human form...


like you, not only does painting provide a link, but to me shows the absolute connection  as One with Creator, As Creator


  thus my Question...what Inspires you... I'm sure you know the first meaning of Inspire...To Breath in...the Breath of God.


anyway, maybe this is not a subject for the comment section of our art pages...and then again...


By the way, I am not one who believes in God of Religion...I am more the believer of Quantum physics, The realm of Infinite possibilities... and why Can't God take this form I ask?


Teilhard de Chardin: “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

 

A friend sent this quote yesterday, without knowing that I had found the same quote the day before and sent it to another friend.

Are the Energies of Creation Swirling Around...inspiring us All.?

Ps...I was hoping you'd spend more time looking up Terrence Mckenna....You should read his theories on Evolution.

Kara


05/07/2008 05:31:57
Scotties Canvas - EZ Up Tents this looks better than the one I got at Costco for $200. My tent leaks ever since it was in a hurricane! Make sure you have side walls, in case of bad weather, and 10 x 10 is my size of choice


From: karafree1
05/06/2008 18:54:11

I'm a big fan of leary, named a child after him, but more recently I discovered Terrence McKenna and absolutely love him.   I do recall a time when I was on a job stripping stained paneling in an unventilated room...definitely interesting inspirations from the ethers....then a really bad headache....I quit the job...right after I tumbled from the ladder...


 I find whiskey(although I prefer wine) helps me with creative writing...... 


I had the most interesting coincidence happen today..Do you know who Pierre Teilhard De Chardin is?


they make house paint really really good these days...especially Benjamin Moore....but I usually only use it as a base...and often I protect my work with a matte varnish.  You  might be surprised if you knew all the different things I use...and some of my work has been around for 10- 15 years and still looks new. (i know that is not a very long time...but it is relative to me...


Ok remember some of the colors are used as a wash,  if you want I'll send you a file(jpg) of the painting so you can study the color.. I do think the combinations made some really interesting shades and reminds me of a pond with sun reflections..


and back to inspiration,  I'd have to agree with you, it does flood in, that was happening to me a few weeks ago and everytime I'd start a painting it would just become this mess of many ideas and inspirations.  So I just had to stop and enjoy all the inspirations but do nothing with them, until I could settle down.


I've been looking at your second painting as I type this...It's actually very interesting...stormy!  eerie, and at the same time Hopeful! Kinda like life...out there!I can't believe Myanmar...all the tornadoes here...


K. 



From: karafree1
05/06/2008 15:03:18

"cleanse our doors of perception."


Now this is something I'm going to have to think about....


Ok, so I use lots of color washing  and blending, making my own colors but I can give you the basic palette on the wispy willow.


Remember I'm an acrylic painter...I use several different paints including houshold paints. but for the most part on this painting I used liquitex and Basic.... Brilliant yellow green,, bright Aqua Green, Bronze yellow, lightblue violet, Raw Sienna.  I used a sage housepaint mixed with a sky blue.  and I used a bright turquoise.


It's hard to tell in this photo but all the leaves and the branches are from a stencil I made, it is heavy texture.


 I've actually never really done collage,as for cheating, maybe in the sense that you are including possibly someone else's creation in your work.


So when I ask what inspires you(or anyone for that matter) I know personally Other Artist and their work inspires me.....I'd have to say even though I don't technically use someone else's product, I certainly have taken parts of someone elses vision to create my own work.  As original as I try to be, can't make something from nothing....Everything (well, almost) around me inspires me at some point or another...It's nice(courteous) though when we "copy" or are inspired by another we are conscious of the process... 





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