Writer – Photographer – Visual Artist
“Boot Cove – Lubec (Winter)” (2023)
Mixed Media (Acrylic & Gouache)
12″ x 16″
One of the things that attracts me about where I live is the icy North Atlantic and the majestic cliffs of Maine’s Downeast coast. In this painting, I wanted to evoke the icy waters bashing the ancient rock which I attempted to do by using only a palette knife and building paint layers as they dried.
“The world laughs in flowers.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Persevere with patience in your prayer, and repulse the cares and doubts that arise within you.” – Evagrios the Solitary
“Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.” – Song of Solomon
“When you come upon a path
that brings benefit
and happiness to all,
follow this course
as the moon
journeys through the stars.”
–– Buddha
“The mystery behind all form is at last named in a formula so convincing, so appealing, so satisfying, that distinction ceases; we forget that even this is not final, that beyond the expression, and apart from it, lies the whole immensity.” – The Vision of Siva
“Dark Mother! Always gliding near with soft feet,
Have none chanted for Thee a chant of fullest welcome?”
– Walt Whitman.
The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens,
Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light—
Were all like workings of one mind, the features
Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree,
Characters of the great Apocalypse,
The types and symbols of Eternity,
Of first and last, and midst, and without end.
– “The Simplon Pass” William Wordsworth
“As a man traversing the whole earth,
Finds not anywhere an object more loveable than himself;
Therefore, since the self is so universally loved by all,
The man who loves himself so much,
Should do no injury to others.” – Sona Thera
Paul Maher Jr. 