Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
–Saint Bartholomew
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This is an 18″ by 18″ canvas that is headed to the Kada Gallery in Erie in a few weeks for my show, Into the Common Ground, that opens there on December 5th. I call this painting Listening to the Muse, very much in line with the quote from St. Bartholomew from back in the 1st century AD. It was true then and still is, twenty centuries later.
I see this piece as being about the value of silent listening, of finding a quietness of mind and spirit that allows one to observe the world as it moves along. I think the muse dwells in those deep recesses of quiet, timelessly waiting to reveal its secrets if only we can calm the chaos and sound surrounding us long enough to hear.
This is one of those pieces where I could write for hours and not add a bit to what the painting itself reveals with a glimpse. That being said, I will shut up and listen. Hopefully, the muse will appear.
Redtree Times 
Wow. Perfect.
Thanks, Bonnie.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Redtree Times wrote:
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Love the quotation, but I question the attribution. It’s all over the internet, but so little is known of Batholomew — even the details of his death have several versions — that he seems an unlikely source. I’m going to send the quotation off to the venerable Quote Investigator and see if he’ll take up the scholarly search.
Apart from that, all that you say is to the point. And if the same Muse gave you this painting and Jimi Hendrix’s purple haze, I’d say you came out the winner. 😉
Yeah, I question a lot of the attributions I come across online but I liked this one, even if it was Bart Simpson and not St. Bartholomew. Maybe I should have opted for something from Jimi…
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Redtree Times wrote:
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I usually don’t spot the misattributions and pass them on myself. It’ll be fun to see if the venerable Investigator decides to take this one on.
I like this one. Needs a puzzle made of it. Think I will.