You Can’t Make Art.

“You can make paintings and sculptures, murals, movies, poems, performances, but you can’t make art. Time and taste, fashion, insight and hindsight make art. Artists are those who, at any given time, are said by an arrangement of the elite or, very occasionally, by democratic consensus, to have made art. So it is more important to be a painter or sculptor than it is to be an artist. I am a painter, a member of a very old profession, maybe the fifth oldest after prostitutes, preachers, prophets, and profiteers, and I do what painters have always done, namely, make pictures. The pictures I make are of places I have been, in that strange space between reality and invention, and more and more, they come to represent real places, a celebration of the gift of being here, and there. (Christopher Pratt)

I too, make pictures; while travelling, in the “plein air” tradition. These become postcards of my life. I remember this day more than most. After a climb to the top of a lookout south of Twillingate, NFLD, I spent a solitary few hours in total bliss. The sun shone, the breeze blew as I sat atop a picnic table trying my best to capture the vista before me. The iceberg was there, albeit out of the frame. Another one of the fond memories that I will carry with me always.

View From Pike’s Arm (14" x 10-1/2")