Many cultures and religions have a major holiday that coincides with this time of the year. That is because it is the winter solstice, the annual celestial event around which our ancestors invented traditional superstitious practices to celebrate an end to the darkening of days and breaking through barriers between the physical and spiritual world.
Contrary […]
I was embarrassed to show this painting until I realized how I could fix it.
One of the creative advantages that I am discovering as I create more artworks digitally is the infinite possibilities for testing variations.
I painted Threshold #5 over 10 years ago. There are many things I really like about this painting – like the […]
Awakening #6 is a new original print that I just finished. My usual way of creating these is to start with an image of a painting and rework it in Affinity Photo – my preferred image editing software – and merge in some astronomical photos. It is a fun process that can lead to unexpected discoveries that […]
This new artwork presents two slightly different views of the same cosmic event seen as if through a bifocal lens.
As with all my work, there is are metaphysical and personal development implications. The mystically inclined among us may see an illustration of “As Above, So Below”. Or perhaps this will remind you that when you are faced […]
Etic Landscape #5 is a brand new painting, the latest in my series of landscapes. (A discernible horizon makes for a landscape because I say so.)
To me, it looks like it might be someplace real. Maybe a place in another galaxy or maybe someplace in another reality in the multiverse where the physical laws are not the […]
So many people say they love my work, but cannot afford an original painting or that it’s too big for their space.
I want to address these issues and make my work more accessible. This is why I launched a new website to sell reproductions of my paintings, showcase my new original digital artworks, and offer […]
We are living in crazy times. New times. Things have changed and we are all going to be doing things differently from now on.
Artists too.
Most of us are finding ourselves spending more time at home than ever before. Working from the dining table, full-time parenting, or just staying in instead of going out..
All that time inside and […]
Mixed Media on Canvas, 24″x36″
Prints are available for this artwork
No one has ever seen a place like this before. No one has ever imagined a reality like this before.
Yet such an otherworldly landscape does exist. Clearly. Because here it is. I imagine it, it therefore exists.
I have no doubt that there […]
Analyzing this painting closely will reveal juxtapositions that are nonsensical to how our senses normally organize information in this physicality. Such a vision is unmanifested in this physical world – except as a painting, of course. In other worlds, it might exist more robustly.
As an artist I see my purpose to be one who can make […]
The impressions that I have of an etic reality go through my own filters.
Getting back to the anthropological roots of etic and emic: those who study indigenous culture can’t ever be in that culture to experience it. They can try to imagine what it would be like and they may even get the opportunity to talk […]
In the process of developing my art, I first get a vision of an energy dynamic or physical presence that is from an etic perspective. This information is not necessarily understandable – because I am outside its defining parameters – but it does make an impression that I feel necessary to bring forth into this physical reality.
I […]
I’ve finished my first really new paintings in quite a while.
The recent Five Elements Series didn’t feel new to me, but instead a rehashing or maybe even a summary of work over the past few years. In a commission situation, where the client expects a certain look, that does constrain the work a bit.
Here is the fifth and final painting completing the “five elements” series commissioned by my son, Sensei Joshua Copson for his martial arts studio, The Blue Dragon Dojang.
I made the paintings in the traditional order of the Gorintou – the Five Ring Pagoda. Sensei teaches the 5 elements in a circular pattern: Water, […]
And now we come to the fourth painting in the series commissioned by my son, Sensei Joshua Copson for his martial arts studio, The Blue Dragon Dojang, Five Elements painting for Wind.
These paintings embody the order in which his Oh Do Kwan students progress in their spiritual studies. The shapes are consistent with the five elements of […]
This is the Five Elements painting for Fire.
It is the third painting in the series commissioned by my son, Sensei Joshua Copson for his martial arts studio, The Blue Dragon Dojang.
Fire represents power, intention, endurance, passion, and the indomitable spirit. Furthermore, Fire teaches us to harness power, and build the endurance needed to use it.
The shapes […]
This is the second in the Five Elements series commissioned by my son, Sensei Joshua Copson for his martial arts studio, The Blue Dragon Dojang.
Water represents the fluid, flowing things in the world. Water teaches us to flow in our movements, find the supple center of balance and become flexible in […]
Earlier in 2017, I accepted a commission from my son, Sensei Joshua Copson, a 4th-degree black belt, to create a series of five paintings for his martial arts studio, The Blue Dragon Dojang.
He has developed Five Fold Way framework for martial arts instruction. These paintings embody the progress in their spiritual studies of his Oh Do Kwan students. […]
Xanadu Gallery of Scottsdale, Arizona has selected my recent painting Soul Mates #7 for the cover of their latest catalog and prominently on their homepage.
Xanadu Gallery is all about selecting outstanding and eclectic artwork. In the legendary city of Xanadu (from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem) Kubla Kahn gathered the finest art and treasures from the […]
By popular demand (Joe Popular of Nyack, NY demanded it), I am making my recent painting, Soul Mates #7, available as a reproduction for affordable purchase by the rabid fans of The Mindstream, the up and coming prog-pop/space-blues/rock musicians that commissioned their debut album cover art from me.
I am happy to make these reproductions […]
Sometimes the internet works to bring about serendipitous connections and even cross-promotions.
A while ago, I commented on a video posted on Facebook for the emerging band The Mindstream. Their lyrics held similar sentiments to my thoughts about my series of artworks about real and imagined Soul Mates.
They, in turn, liked my art and likewise saw the connection and so commissioned […]
