Artist's Statement: When I first started taking seriously the idea that I might be an artist, before I had taken any classes, I began to work in charcoal, with my favorite subjects being books and fine glassware. This drawing is one of my earliest and most favored. I have given it to the scholar in my life. Charcoal Drawing 13 x 16 in Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it

Artist's Statement: I have been working for seven years on a group of paintings entitled Strong Women of the Bible. In this head study, I worked to explore the feelings that might have animated Batiya, as she contemplated the choice that would change her life and the world. A daughter of the Pharaoh, she found a weeping, male baby in a basket adrift in the Nile. She knew that her father had decreed the death of every first-born Jewish male child and she had no doubt the baby

Artist's Statement: When I painted this portrait, the model was posing simultaneously for several artists. While ordinarily I determine the pose for the models I paint, this time I had to accept the pose chosen by others. To my eyes, Edward (the model) seemed very somber, almost like a judge contemplating a difficult decision. I struggled a bit to bring that feeling to my painting. I believe I succeeded because, when Edward saw the finished work, he asked to have his photo t

Artist's Statement: This painting is a portrait of Esther, my daughter’s first and best friend from a tumultuous year at the Smithsonian Institute in Panama. Esther and Rachael remain close, despite the great distance and various vicissitudes of life. As a friend, Esther, holds your hand, makes you laugh, and has your back. Oil on Panel 16 x 20 in My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddle strings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash

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

Artist's Statement: Liza is the daughter of close friends of mine. My husband and I have watched her grow up into an extremely intelligent, strong, determined yet fun-loving young woman. She travels, spends time with family and friends and loves life. She is a great model. I always get a unique, exciting and interesting take on life from her poses. She is a person who looks you in the eye and does not back down, but will end with laughing wholeheartedly and giving you a wink.

Oil on Canvas 24 x 36 in A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Washington Irving prolific author of books, essays, stories (including Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow); perhaps the first true American writer There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defe

Oil on Canvas 38 x 19.5 in Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are . . . They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy. Gillian Flynn contemporary author Gone Girl I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent. Jimmy Buffett contemporary musician,

Oil on Panel 26 x 20 in And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace Of finer form or lovelier face. Walter Scott Canto I, stanza 18 Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past

Oil on Belgian Linen 30 x 24 in Very comforting a seascape. It was eternal, and completely unaffected by humans and human wars and human cruelty. Kerry Greenwood Murder and Mendelssohn, Chapter 7 (Phryne Fisher Mysteries) "Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?" Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Art

Oil on Canvas 37 x 19 in Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give. Jane Austen Emma Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee (master of the martial arts; actor) 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. #boating #sa

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

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 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