Speed of Life

Gregg Chadwick Mulholland Blue  24"x30" oil on linen 2013 Honored that my painting  Mulholland Blue   is included in Saatchi Online's "Best of 2013" feature: http://art.saatchionline.com/bestof2013/

Gregg Chadwick Night Swim, Kaufmann House 24"x30" oil on linen 2013 Courtesy Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, California   On Friday, December 13th, we chased away the demons with an inspiring book reading   at Book Soup on Sunset in Hollywood with the presentation of Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey into Day , which includes my essay Night Painting.  Please join us at Book Passage in Corte Madera on December 18, 2013 at 7 pm for our next event. I will again be reading. This marvelous book, edited by Phil Cousineau, includes an inspiring array of essays and poems: including pieces by Vincent Van Gogh, Walt Whitman, Pico Iyer, Rabandranath Tagore, Mary Oliver, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jorge Borges, William Blake, Mikkel Aaland, Kent Chadwick, Alexander Eliot, Jane Winslow Eliot, Li Po , Antler, Annie Dillard, Charles Bukowski, R B Morris, Willis Barnstone,  Bruce Chatwin, James Norwood Pratt, Tess ...

The Courage to Create WEEKEND OF DECEMBER 6-8, 2013 Gregg Chadwick The Painter ( il miglior fabbro ) 24"x30" oil on linen 2013 What role does creativity play in our lives? Is it an inner imperative that helps us forge the well-lived life? This workshop at Esalen, situated along California's rugged Big Sur coastline, engages with the notion that creativity is a “battle with the gods” in light of its Latin origins in the word  creare , the natural urge “to grow or make order of chaos." Our point of departure is that creativity is an archetypal journey with recognizable stages, which are especially helpful when we are stuck or lost in our work. For the last thirty years, Phil Cousineau has used his three-stage model — Inspiration, Perspiration, and Realization — as a guide to help writers, artists, and filmmakers to deepen and complete their work. The artist Gregg Chadwick uses his own artwork and anecdotes from his lifelong study of painters to prov...