about JACK SWINNEY

Artist statement:

Learning to draw and paint has proven much harder than I had thought it would be.. I would like to tell stories and capture the moment like Lisel Mueler's poem.

2009, 2010 Wayne McDowell and Steve Early

2005,2006,2007,2008:: workshops with Ken Auster, Roger Dale Brown, Steve Earlyl , and Nelson Shank's Incaminati workshop; gesture, duo tone studies for figure and portraiture, Philadephia, PA

2005: January thru June: Mims Studios; Bargue drawings, Southern Pines, NC

2004 & 2005: Steve Perkin's sculpture classes , Cedric and Joanette's January workshop; figure and portraiture, Annapolis, MD

2002 - 2007: Tony Griffin; figure drawing and plein aire painting, Charlotte, NC

2002 - 2204: Elizabeth Ross; still life and landscapes, Charlotte, NC

2000 - 2002: Andy Braitman studios; figure drawing, Charlotte, NC

 

 

 

From “Monet refuses the operation”__ Lisel Mueller

 

"Doctor, you say that there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration…
.
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
"

 

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