Simplicity of Drawing

There are those who never realize the close and intimate relationship of art and the extension of your inner self. Like playing a piano solo, the pencil is like being on stage without the supporting orchestra. I try to describe with the pencil a world that has continuously lain parallel to every other world I have discovered, explored, and left . It is this world, of vision, created when black mixes with white, that has most influenced who I am and who I am becoming. It is a world of risk, of no turning back and a world that requires you to bare your soul in the most raw, vulnerable form to all those within eye shot. Yet all can discarded with a simple turn of the page. That is why I love the simplicity of drawing.

The pencil has become my companion. It holds me like a friend, the lead supporting my weight, the wood hugging my fingers without malice or judgment. It is such a simple instrument, so simply made and yet sits waiting for any so willing to share in stories and visions of beauty. The pencil never criticizes, only listens, allowing the completion of a thought process that can only lie deep within the areas or the mind where words are not to be found, where there are no barriers between the heart and ones personal reality.

Here are a couple of new pieces I have done for The Neumann Gallery for the Disegno drawing show November 25th. Drawing is sorrily overlooked when it comes to art and galleries These days it seems to be all about the painting. I so look forward to simplicity this show will bring.