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Oil on Prepared Aluminium Panel
47.2"x 39.3" in
120 x 100 cm
Late one summer evening after dinner at our weekend home in the Dutch countryside, I took a quick photo of my friend walking from shadow into the warm light of the setting sun. Later the same evening I made many drawings to find the essence of what I had felt at the moment I made the photo. Back in my Amsterdam studio I went to work on the painting. I had fun moving big areas of color around the canvas as the visual poetry began to distill itself into the direct, emotional expression I was searching for. A few years after completing this piece I pulled it from the racks and added the figure on the right side.
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Michael Ryan
A self- described "poetic realist", Ryan is especially inspired by what he observes around him. Primarily working with oils and pastels, he is fascinated by the relationship formed between colors. His bold pieces are painted on specially prepared aluminum panels or linen. His lifelong exploration of self through yoga and meditation, as well as the introduction to mindfulness through the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn in the early ‘90’s, was instrumental in expanding his early love for Rembrandt, Hals, Manet and Degas to the artists Pierre Bonnard, Nicolas de Staël, Henri Matisse, Wolf Kahn and Joan Mitchell.