Watercolors Beyond the CommOn
by Sue Robishaw

Tree Dream
(a thought on awakening one winter morning -- a tree dreaming of spring)
14 x 11 (matted 19 x 16, gold colored metal frame) 




Looking in Looking Out
(it started out a cloak, but turned into a mask- a face- the theatre of self)
15 x 15 (matted 22 x 22, darkened cherry frame) 



Rethinking America
(listening to Pete Seeger's song "The Torn Flag" and thinking of current events, this idea came. I went back to my studio and painted it)
14 x 18 (matted 22 x 26, oak frame) 

Blue Bird
Available at the Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI
14 x 18 (matted 20 x 24, oak frame)     

 



On the Edge of the Abyss
(did the poem -- see below* -- come first or the painting?
inspired by Theodore Giesel's "other" art, and fellow artists) 
10 x 15 (matted 15 x 20, black metal frame) 
(alabaster blue mat)

 

There's a Pink Thing in my Hair
(it is hard to say where this one came from, but it makes me smile)
10 x 17 (matted 16 x 22, gold metal frame)  

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    Except where noted, matting is of a white or offwhite color, and both matboard and backing board are 100% cotton, archival museum board. A few early works are matted with quality acid-free matboard with backboard of acid free foamcore. All watercolors are originals, and no prints have been made of them (nor are available). Most work is framed and glazed with glass.

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"Tolstoy observed that 'When we read or look at the artistic production of a new author the fundamental question that arises in our soul is always of this kind: 'Well, what sort of a man are you? ... What can you tell me that is new, about how we must look at this life of ours?' "

                    in his introduction to Mauspassants "What is Art?" -- from "Surreal Lives", by Ruth Brandon

Hanging Out on the Edge of the Abyss*

The life of an artist
is intense and immense;
You struggle and chortal and
piffle and fence.
All the bulbs lighted are
downstairs from you
And no shade is bebaubled for your
glass of dark hue.
So with quirky impatience and
unreasonable spark
You don your best armbands and
climb out of the dark
To contemplate navels and
zeroes and such
Seeing vast vistas with your
singular touch
There’s nothing to guide you, the
bear’s still asleep,
The sky waves unending and the
grass is too deep.
Yet you find yourself glowing with a
strange kind of bliss
Hanging out on the edge of
life’s great abyss.

copyright 2002 Susan J. Robishaw

Updated 06/23/2008