Fringe Notes

Summer 2026

Artists portray the conflict of having emotions.

Painting is a responsive act and an inventive act. To paint, one must see, interpret, and invent.

Take time to re-charge as an artist, experience life, see, listen, and reflect.

Live with your work, it takes time to form a relationship—let the art speak back to you.

Sometimes one must go forward with bold strokes, and, sometimes one must go forward with ordered strokes. Art involves both sides of passion.

However achieved, painting is a relationship of parts.

To understand a subject, it is important to stay with it and produce studies.

If it is a busy day, spend some time with your painting later, perhaps at night. Small moves could be made or quiet observation.

Paint from your center.

The nuances of individuality, within the sphere of conformity, ask for your attention.

Art does not forsake you, it is ready when you are.