[Rick Mullin]

Thanks Jim,

I appreciate your description of my style. And I am glad to hear there is enthusiasm for Pinocchio in still life paintings. My Pinocchio with the missing foot, purchased in Florence, is in heavy rotation in my studio. As I mentioned to Sarah-Jane, I think I am moving into a heavy still life season.

Rick

[Jim Moonan]

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Originally Posted by Rick Mullin

Thanks Jim,

I appreciate your description of my style.
Rick

I hold my breath sometimes when I go out on a limb and describe how someone's art appears to me. In your case I hope it lines up more or less with your more informed opinion : )

Pinocchio and Pippi Longstocking are my two favorite anti-heroes : )

Looking forward to your gaze on still life.


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[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Rick, of your still lives, I like the one of the acoustic guitar - partly because of the style of painting, but also because I can make some stories/narrative around some of the objects but not around others - it reads to me like a mixture of symbolic and highly personal, which leaves me feeling interested not only in the picture, but how the objects might link together.

Sarah-Jane

[Rick Mullin]

Thanks Sarah-Jane,

I wonder about that painting, because there is so much going on in it. I arrange still lifes as theater, pulling in items in my cabinet somewhat randomly. Often, there is a "nude" as the central character--usually a guitar, mandolin or a cello. I will explain the puppet--it's The Ellington Puppet. My oldest daughter (the former cellist), when she was in fourth grade, had a class assignment for Black History Month: Read a biography, write a report, and make a puppet. Her teacher that year was the best one she had in grade school. Anyway, there is no objective narrative to the painting, but hopefully a subjective/objective one. I am going to concentrate on still life now until it gets warmer outside.

RM

[Pop Alexandra]

I really like all the Still Life works and the Ancient Mariner in particular. Keep up the good work.
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Alexandra from Art Shippers