Painting 1 2014 January.

Here is the first months painting in the aforementioned year long project. I intend to put this and the other posted painting in the Washington count teachers art show tommorow. This painting is entitled "Where your treasure is, there is your heart: the calling of Mathew" pardon capitalization errors etc. it is really hard to get my iPad keyboard to work well.

I'd rather not over explain what I am doing here other than to sayi start with the inspiration of the title. I've been pondering the action moments of the call of Jesus disciples. These are pivotal spiritual moments that meet and demand an immediate earthly response. My paintings and thinking for the past 20 years have been meditations on these two ideas, spiritual existence within an earthly confines for the a finite time and the tensions experienced between the two. These two paintings are an expression of that pondering of those events. On the other hand, just as the lives of Nathaniel and Mathew unfolded, the life of a painting unfolds and it becomes what it becomes for me and anyone who views it. the inspiration is just the starting place for the life of the painting.

I intend to end the life of this painting after February and paint over it and start again.