The Orange art groups started in response to a need for artists from various backgrounds and experiences to work together, sharing skills and ideas and interacting while making images or working on craft. These groups have remained open and inclusive. The paying students pay a drop-in fee which covers costs of models, rent and refreshments. … Read more
Janet Bishop and Katherine Rothkopf. From an essay; Imagining into another; John Elderfield. “One of the most mysterious semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another.” (John Keats, Marginalia to Paradise lost.) “ Matisse and Diebenkorn; Both started with the wish to record something close at hand, to make … Read more
Francoise Gilot Consider this; “ We need one tool to do one thing, and we should limit ourselves to that one tool. In that way the hand trains itself. It becomes supple and skillful and the single tool brings with it a sense of measure that is reflected harmoniously in everything we do. The … Read more