Artist's Statement: The model for this portrait is the father of a woman who attended the Atelier School of Art when I did. The woman is a nun, who evidently embraces and is embraced by her faith. Her father is just as the title of the painting suggests – a genuinely good and kind man. Oil on Canvas 22 x 22 in Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us. Francis Bacon philosopher and statesman (1561–1626) When I admire the wonders of a sunset or

Artist's Statement: During my visit to Tsinghua University in Beijing, a student gave me a tour of the grounds and further, off campus, to see the Old Summer Palace. We walked around the Palace grounds for several hours. There is a beautiful public park on the grounds where hundreds of people, families and students strolled and enjoyed the view and the calm and serenity of the park. When I returned to the States I had my model pose in a kimono I had bought in China, to revive

Oil on Belgian Linen 20 x 16 in Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. O no! It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wand'ring bark, whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. William Shakespeare Sonnet 116 Oil on Panel 14 x 12 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and bre

Shabbat Walk (Sabbath Walk) Oil on Canvas 20 x 38 in If you wait until you find the meaning of life, will there be enough life left to live meaningfully? The Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson author of Tanya and many other works Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. C.S. Lewis prominent Christian theologian author including The Tales of Narnia Works in Progress Finding an Angel in the

Walk Along a Florida Beach 33 x 43.5 in The sea is a desert of waves, a wilderness of water. Langston Hughes poet, playwright essential contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation You can't trus

Fish Oil on Canvas If a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air, then a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape.* Doris Lessing 2007 Nobel Prize Laureate (Literature) * paraphrased to reverse the sequence Many … go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. Paul Schullery contemporary conservationist, writer, and scholar Swimming Lionfish 31.5 x

In respect of Mother's Day Miriam Comforting Yocheved Oil on Belgian Linen Work in Progress Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good. CS Lewis If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have one it will not be a pansy heaven nor a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses ee Cummings God could not be everywhere, and therefore (God) made mothers. Rudyard Kipling Egyptian Princess Oil on Canvass 28 x 22 in Art

Eye of the Tiger Oil on Wood Panel 5 x 5 in There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer theologian, medical missionary, humanitarian, award Nobel Peace Prize I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love. James Herriot British veterinary surgeon and author All Things Bright and Beautiful Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if

Oil on Wood Panel “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” Will Rogers American entertainer, early 20th century master of homespun humor, pithy social commentary, and the political one-liner Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. Roger Caras wildlife photographer, writer, wildlife preservationist, TV reporter sometime A.S.P.C.A. president and announcer for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Anybody who doesn't know

Oil on Canvas 30 x 20 in I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott “I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” Ricky Skaggs (singer, songwriter) Art as a

Oil on Wood Panel 30 x 24 in With freedom, flowers, books and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy? Oscar Wilde De Profundis Art as an Oasis™ Art as an Oasis is a series of occasional postings from the art of Carrie Kleinberger providing a temporary respite from both mundane and monumental cares complimented by words of wisdom from a diversity of others. #orange #orangezinnia #flowers #gouquet #floralart #gardening #summervibes #sunshinetherapy #sun #nature #naturelover

Oil on Wood Panel 16 x 12 in Wine is sunlight, held together by water. Galileo Galilei Wine is the only artwork you can drink. Luis Fernando Olaverri What wine goes with Cap'n Crunch? George Carlin Art as an Occasional Medicine for Melancholy Like everyone else I know, these days I spend a lot of time worrying about the future. As what I hope to be an upbeat, if temporary, distraction, here is a painting, coupled to someone else's words of wisdom. #artasanoasis #fineart #wome

Oil on Canvas 54 x 41 in We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. -- Maya Angelou Art as an Oasis™ Art as an Oasis is a series of occasional postings from the art of Carrie Kleinberger providing a temporary respite