joel klepac

When faced with studio time, I am often both excited and terrified. Much of the terror comes back to what it might mean to be an artist....

Recent drawing from a hike on the Auxier Trail in the Red River Gorge. I recently finished Wendell Berry's book on the gorge quoted...

" It has the force of the waterdrop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a...

“I no longer ask whether and how long my works will outlast me,” Matisse told Gotthard Jedlicka, who visited him in his hotel room in...

Encaustic Painting has a long history going back to the Egyptian Faiyum portraits. Painted by combining colored pigments with beeswax...

"The true definition of science is this; to study the beauty of the world" Simone Weil p258 The Need for Roots

“The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of...

A Larger View Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me When I was...

"...he may have been too dazzled by the great light of his experiences to realize that an impressive sun shines on us all. Perhaps that...

Peering into the balcony for some time, I sat with the window open with my 10 by 10 sketchbook on my lap. I fell in love with the...