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In the back of my mind, this owl is me - landing. An odd, but beautiful bird. Finding + remembering where I came from. I started out when I was ten years old drawing and painting wildlife. Only wildlife. I stopped when I realized I would never be Robert Bateman - nor did I want to be. I’m not detail oriented or subtle or nearly as good. I started painting wildlife again when I realized - being someone else was never my destiny anyways. Charley Harper taught me that.
From the Charley Harper website:
Charles asks the people who enjoy his art to “remember that I didn’t start out to paint a bird - the bird already existed. I started out to paint a picture of a bird, a picture which didn’t exist before I came along, a picture which gives me a chance to share with you my thoughts about the bird. Once you accept this seemingly simplistic but really quite profound premise, you will aprreciate the many varied approaches to the making of pictures, all of which start where realism leaves off, but all of which require an understanding of realism for their successful execution.”
Frame House Gallery excerpt, 1977
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MYSELF / Barn Owl [K.Barteski 2009]
Size: 40 x 30
Medium: acrylic on gallery wrap canvas
Collection: K.Barteski
Price: $1500 (original painting) Shipping extra.
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GALLERY PRINT: Museum-quality print on cold-press watercolour paper. Signed by the artist.
Price: $85 (includes shipping)
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