Eliza Cook was a 19th-century English poet and writer, from whose words the title of this painting is taken. She wrote that it would be better to “build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.” This is a compelling statement, ringing with...
The People Learn to Read [caption id="attachment_267" align="alignright" width="150" caption="THE PEOPLE LEARN TO READ (24 x 48 mixed media on canvas)"][/caption] There are several paintings so far in the Reading the Key series. The first one I completed is "The People Learn to Read." With it's...
The soul of a people is the arts. The art they make. The art they revere. The art they pursue. Art can provide political commentary, as does Picasso's Guernica in 1937, or speak to the human condition, as does the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning....