SILENCIO, watercolor

Silencio, 6x9 watercolor

From Assisi, Italy, where I painted "Silencio", I recently finished reading "The Garlic Ballads", by Nobel Prize Winner in literature MO YAN. It is a denunciation of the peasants struggle and suffering in China as recently as the 1980s. The writing is beautiful and poignant, Mo Yan immerses us in the stench, blood, sweat and tears of the peasants. Not an easy read for me, I suffered with every character in the story.

MEDITATION, watercolor

Meditation, 6x9 watercolor

Walking and painting at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, in Italy, one has time to meditate. Some quotations from Nobel Prize winners come to mind:
"Old age is wonderful...A pity it ends so badly."           ---François Mauriac, LITERATURE, 1952

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."                   ---William Faulkner, LITERATURE, 1949

"Why two sexes rather than three? What a source of new plots three sexes would provide for novelists, of new variations for psychologists, of new complications for lawyers."
                                                                                       ---François Jacob, MEDICINE, 1965

LAPLAND NATIVE, watercolor

Lapland Native, watercolor, 6x9 in.

One of my last paintings while Resident Artist in Ricklundgården,  Sweden. The deer run wild, although they belong to the Sami population. The variety of designs or growth patterns of their horns is amazing, and very beautiful.

Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1977, wrote: "The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning, you're not old."