Artist Journal • Birthday Vow
I contemplated my birthday before the sun rose. I generally like to breeze on past my birthday without confetti and party hats. Incognito birthdays. This birthday I could feel the launching of soul fireworks. Maybe it is the full moon lunar eclipse or it being a super moon or both? What I do know is as a child I felt an urgency to live. As a grown man, here on my birthday, the calling is deafening. Life has never tasted sweeter and I am so deeply grateful to be healthy and alive, however, I thirst to suck the wine right out of the vine of life. I have love to make, love to give, paintings still in tubes, songs unsung, music unplayed, films uncaptured, stories untold and experiences impatiently waiting in the unknown. On this birthday I vow to live the rest of my days running deeply into the wildness of life.
Artist Journal • 09.24.15
My formal training in collage was life drawing from cadavers. The description sounds contradictory I know. I became obsessed with the human form. Every couple of years or so I go back to the human figure. I am working on a new series of nudes. I will be posting them soon. And by the way, I am not in the photo above. - Rhett
Felicia Bartley
When Felicia Bartley first came to work in the studio, I was a couple of months away from a major exhibition. I pretty much threw her into the fire. She wasn't afraid to tackle anything and did so with skill and ingenuity. Felicia just set up her own studio in Denver, CO and the Denver art scene is taking notice. Read these wonderful articles on her recent installation of featured works at the Dada Art Bar. Introducing Felicia Motivation & Roots