Paintings of Ennis

A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in Joe Kennedy’s pipe workshop hanging out &  listening to some friends go on about all things ulliean-related. Quite esoteric for a non-piper, but very cool. While there Joe brought out a massive volume of transcriptions of Seamus Ennis’ playing. The book was huge and to call it “exhaustive” [...]

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More Alex Grey

ART is communion of one soul to another, offered through the symbolic language of form and content.” (p 19) “The only way to formal inventiveness and technical ability is to work and work, studying and perfecting the craft.” (p 19) “Technique is just the way to arrive at a statement. Great art is a concentration [...]

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Words with Rufus

A few months ago, I came across the website of an old teacher of mine. I wrote to him just to say hello, see how he was doing and tell him some things I’d never had the chance to tell him before our time together ended. He was very gracious and interested in what I’d [...]

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Folk Art

“FOLK art is an expression of one’s life, not one’s culture. The past and the present co-exist. Local artists have an instinct for creation. In a place without tradition, they make art that does not look like art. Let’s call it community spirit, its sensitive and open-minded. Human-centered…. A folk artist takes pride in bringing [...]

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