Sanpoil Studio
"Eternity is Now!"
Paintings and Prints available
1/25/23
Standing on the beach of the Sea of Cortez, I saw dorado swimming in the waves. I'm starting to understand acrylics and eagerly look forward to new ideas and the next painting. I take a break and go cross country skiing as winter continues to get along but feel as if my toes are buried in the warm sands of the beach as I imagine the sun setting in the tropics of my mind.
1/20/23
It has been a pleasure although a challenging one, to work in acrylics to express my ideas. After an inspiring trip to the Sea of Cortez after the dreary taking a break from the grey of winter in the North. I think I understand why Mexican art is so colorful. It must be the light at the Tropic of Cancer. I look forward to spending more time there to discover why else the house are so colorful and the culture is as spicy as its food.
Sea of Cortez, 12x24, acrylic, Available, email; gcaudell@msn.com
1/11/23
San Jose del Cabo, Baja California and the Sea of Cortez otherwise know as the Gulf of California. The resort Meca of Baja. Extrordinary disparity between the have and have nots. One dependent on the other, both in a landscape of sun and the fecudity of the Sea of Cortez, that the famous marine explorer, Jacque Cousteau called the Aqarium of the World.
Wandering the tourist part of San Jose one finds the typical merch one would anywhere in Mexico's resort towns. I did find the central palaza which was an energized community event where local families, artists and musicians played off of one another.
10/16/22
Place, as in plein air. Because I believe in reincarnation i.e. that not only one's body is recycled by nature but one's soul is recycled on the wheel of karma to learn the lessons one needs to grow as a being, that place is where one is launched/reborn or to start again. I feel that place must be memorized so that one's soul/spirit can begin again. I record that place by painting en plein air. I am memorizing/memorializing the Sanpoil Valley as that place. Curiously I must have a lot to learn because most all of my life for many moves has been along the 48th parralell of the U.S. Perhaps I was with David Thompson. (look up who died with him along the 48th parallel when he was surveying the 49th paralell.
"Sleeping Salmon Mountain", 12x24, acrylic, Available, email; gcaudell@msn.com
4/17/22
The cold and snow continues in the the mountains of eastern washington. Painting en pleinair is a challenge but one perseveres hoping for the warm spring days to come. The birds are anxious and have delayed nest building and the bees are hunkered down hoping for trees to bloom and provide badly needed pollen to sustain themselves and grow their brood to replace all the workers that didn't make it to spring. C'mon girls hang in there!
4/14/22
Raven and Coot
Tsimshian
Myths and Legends of Alaska, Katherine Berry Judson
A LONG time ago, Raven wanted all the birds to look well, so he painted them. Raven painted Coot last. Then Coot began to paint Raven, who wanted many bright colors. So Coot painted Raven with bright colors with one hand, but in the other hand he hid charcoal. When Raven looked away, Coot quickly blackened all the bright colors with charcoal. Then Raven was angry and he chased Coot. But Coot ran too quickly, so Raven threw white mud at him, white mud which spattered over Coot. Therefore Coot had white spots on his head and back. But Coot flew away and left Raven all black.
11/04/20
Peace Angels, digital drawing
The anxiety and fear of the day
weighs on my happiness like a cloud hiding the sun on a cold winter day.
I kick a mosaic of autumn leaves and angels fly from my feet bringing a smile.