If memory serves , Flodden Field was the sight of a tremendous slaughter of valiant , yet overmatched Scots who followed the over -confident James IV to a massacre in Cumbria . This painting has nothing to do with that battle , but the name for me , always held a resonance of heroic failure .20 July 2009
Flodden Field
If memory serves , Flodden Field was the sight of a tremendous slaughter of valiant , yet overmatched Scots who followed the over -confident James IV to a massacre in Cumbria . This painting has nothing to do with that battle , but the name for me , always held a resonance of heroic failure .
28 June 2009
Sooner Than You Think
Sweeping changes on the horizon . The lucid , tidy maps and outlines of how we sometimes envision life will play out . . . another phase or era looking to begin . Ready or not . . .This sketch is from an old sketchbook from a few years ago . The man was a former cook in Glasgow who had been fired for drinking .
10 June 2009
03 May 2009
The Sacred Journey
"Each life is not just a journey through time , but a sacred journey ."
F. Buechner
Christopher Andrew Renner
1962 - 2009
06 April 2009
The Return
It has been a fluid , prolific season - completing a succession of work for "The Deserters " exhibition . I have neglected the other " fields " - music and printmaking , and I know I must return .
I remember when I was very young , I would rise before my parents and brothers and walk out to a certain space in the pasture behind my father's barn . There was a certain pleasure in knowing that small slice of the world was mine alone to enjoy . Even at that young age there was a sense that the moment must be made the most of , that I would soon be summoned back to the beckoning of that other world .
04 April 2009
My Path
"My path has long hours,jolts and pains . My path has peaks and sea-troughs,sand and sky . Mine or thine . "Edmond Jabes
21 March 2009
Fecundity
In the clouded hours before dawn , contemplation and creative energy always seem the strongest . Silence has it's gifts - an undisturbed fruitfulness .16 March 2009
Teach Us To Number Our Days Aright
Little time for soliloquy . Resisting the tyranny of abandoned notions . Flashes of pencil in notebooks , hastily scripted on backs of envelopes . Prone to wander . . .
24 February 2009
Words From The Front
Other recent paintings.These will likely be included in The Deserters exhibition.
23 February 2009
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