artist statement for my painting exhibit

     For those of you who will not be able to find you way to Zuma Coffee in Marshall to see my new paintings.  Here are two versions of my artist statement that I will be posting on the wall...  I have choosen the top one.

Artist Statement:

     Emotions run deep in the forest.  They spring up from the earth to become waterfalls in the creek flowing across my face.

     The big questions can never be answered.

     I only ask for the strength and courage to continue and develop.

     This drives my work daily onward.

     Good friends push me to think bigger.  I thank you.  Keep pushing.

     The concentration it takes, the emotional excitement during these hours in the action of spontaneous painting, and the joy I receive looking at what has been created -  (by God, by Me, by Everyone) – I swear my heart will one day burst out of my chest in the wonderment and beauty of it all.

     lois simbach

                                   www.simbachdesign.com

               

Artist Statement:

     With a much needed kick in the pants from GOOD Friends, I am pushing myself to think bigger.  Studying many mentors to expand my little life here in the forest – where I can see the entire world in a one inch patch of dirt, realize our physical sameness in the veins of a leaf, and awaken to the awesomeness of god-stuff in the bear at my window.

     Sitting by my morning fireplace I am about to self-ignite with this new enthusiasm.  As the Thoreau quote, imbedded in cement on my home states, “Heaven is under out feet as well as over our heads.”

     These days Heaven is coming straight thru my arm into the

action of painting.

lois simbach

                                    www.simbachdesign.com