Color as light, the medium for all that we see, the blue: cobalt, ultra-marine, Prussian, the colors of the California sky The red: setting sun at dusk
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Grinding an ink stick on a stone shaped like the “wind” its fragrant smell fills the room connects me to the calligraphers of the past who have been grinding their own ink before they begin to write stretching back...
Unable to find flowers for today’s arrangement, to accompany the preparation of tea, I instead hung this scroll I painted of bamboo. I mounted this using Japanese silks in a Muramachi era Kake-mono style . The seal is one...
Staring out the window in my dining room, watching the clouds roll in over the mountains from the sea, I was inspired to hang an old painting from my collection. I wrote “layers of cloudy peaks” in large characters,...
Digging in the crates of hanging scrolls I made while living in Taiwan, I came across one of my first ink paintings I painted, while living in Tian MU. Two friends sit beneath a mountain peak by the water,...
I am thrilled to announce that my book “THE DAYS CRASH OVER ME” will be available shortly. It will be added to the shop soon. Here is a preview:
A light rain has come back, and the last flowers of winter have fallen, scattered across the river of rock, that runs by my house.
Here is an interview with Adam Bernard, from the 2016 Art Expo in New York.
Inspired by the lines: Scattered mountains, beyond clouds Echo clearly, in the autumn void I used a karatsu style serving bowl, with the image of a temple on the peak of a mountain, surrounded by pines, painted...