Speed of Life

Opening at Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica Airport- photo by Gerardo Horischnik , originally uploaded by greggchadwick . thank you to all who braved the huge crowd at saturday's grand opening. i was touched by the enthusiasm for and interest in my work. if you have questions about a particular painting or monotype please e-mail me or leave a comment on this entry. if you would like to view the work again in a calmer fashion please stop by on thursday, october 14th. i will be in the studio from 12pm to 6pm and of course the los angeles art fair will be opening that evening across the street in the barker hangar. if those times do not work please feel free to set up an appointment . i hope you had a chance to view the other artist's work at the santa monica art studios facility. i just call it the hangar. it really brings back my childhood to paint with the roar of jet engines reverberating from the nearby runway. that roar sounds like possibility to me- as artis...

i drive from santa monica to san francisco and back almost weekly. don't know how i would do it without michael mcdermott growling and whispering in my ear. his music is pure passion and the lyrics are the poetry of life's small battles. a rich chord of spirituality runs throughout michael's music. this is neither irony nor dogma but instead the understanding of faith and its importance in modern life. you can sense michael mcdermott's appreciation for joseph campbell in these songs. and in those spare piano graced moments i can almost hear raymond carver. this is music for the soul. give it a listen- take care gregg

une passante ( for czeslaw milosz) , originally uploaded by greggchadwick . every artwork has its audience - sometimes large and sometimes singular. small paintings such as "une passante" seem to be noticed first by other artists or those with a heightened awareness of the world. i recently sent the following description of "une passante" off to an early discoverer of the work- czeslaw milosz' poetry has been a deep inspiration for me. his ability to search for meaning or metaphysics even after the horrors in Poland during the 20th century has always been a source of strength for me artistically and spiritually. when i found out about his recent death i wanted to paint an image pulled from life like a sort of painted poem- a moment that if one is not truly aware will go unseen title: une passante (in french a female passerby) this poem by milosz feels to me like the painting: AN HONEST DESCRIPTION OF MYSELF WITH A GLASS OF WHISKEY AT AN AIRPORT, LET ...

Studio View Of Fire Sermon , originally uploaded by greggchadwick . Hope all of you in los angeles come down to my studio this weekend for the grand opening: When: 6-9 pm on saturday, october 9th and 2-5 pm on sunday, october 10th Where: studio #15 @ the hangar studios santa monica airport 3026 airport avenue, santa monica, ca 90405 View some of the work at: https://www.greggchadwick.com/Gregg_Chadwick/Paintings__2000-2010.html Hope to see you there make sure you come up and say "hi" take care- Gregg