#contemporaryart #painter #sculptor #artistlife #artistblog #jamesmaygallery #melissadorn 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? Daybook by Anne Truitt Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2. What are you currently working on? I’m working on a series of Mop Portraits using acrylic, mop strands and industrial felt. This is a continuation of a larger series based on industrial mops and my fascination with them. 3. How has failure set you up for later suc

#abstract #abstractpaintings #contemporarypainting #painter #jamesmaygallery #nicholegronvoldroller 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? One of the first books that influenced my life was The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen. I remember reading this book as a child and was horrified by the illustrations and the story. It was my first introduction that life could be sad and unfair, even for children. Another book that stuck with me beyond the in

#creativelife #artistblog #12questions #painter #newrealism #surrealism #matteoneivert #biosphere #jamesmaygallery #botanyofdesire 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? Hmmmm. This is a very hard question. 'Atlantis’ by Mark Dotty ‘The Lives of the Artists’ by Giorgio Vasari ‘When You Are Engulfed in Flames’ by David Sedaris 2. What are you currently working on? Art-wise, I am working on paintings that illustrate the strength and delicacy of our current natura

#artistlife #painter #artistblog #lynngilchrist #artofwater #jamesmaygallery #creativelife 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? I read "The Second Sex," by Simone de Beauvoir, as a young adult in the late 60's. It helped confirm and inform my feminist outlook "The New Art," a late-60's anthology of essays about contemporary art, was an eye-opening introduction to artists and critical thinking that I read right before entering college. It gave me a new vocabul