The House On The Borderland

Right away in the west of Ireland lies a tiny hamlet called Kraighten. It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill.

Gary Chambers – Q2 Art Competition

Title: Ivory Medium: oil Size: 30x40

Artist Portfolio Magazine – Q2 Art Competition Gary Chambers – Elizabethton, TN Gary Chambers M D “Doctor C” Doctor C began painting long before becoming an Orthopedic Surgeon.Ssurgery training in great locations in US and USAF service in England afforded wonderful opportunities for photography and painting. After retirement he served as volunteer medical missions in […]

Some Seasons Later

I admit that even among amateurs this is rather small talk, but it brings me to this point: in the passage of water down a ravine of its own making, this line of Nature astir may repeat itself again and again but is commonly too inaffable, abrupt, angular, to suggest the ogee. In that middle […]

The Windows of Absolute Night

To most minds mystery is more fascinating than science. But when science itself leads straight up to the borders of mystery and there comes to a dead stop, saying, “At present I can no longer see my way,” the force of the charm is redoubled.

First Days In The Eternal City

My strange, and perhaps whimsical, incognito proves useful to me in many ways that I never should have thought of.

The History of Fashion

A hard fate has condemned human beings to enter this mortal sphere without any natural covering, like that possessed by the lower animals to protect them from the extremes of heat and cold. Had this been otherwise, countless myriads, for untold ages, would have escaped the tyrannical sway of the goddess Fashion, and the French […]

The Door In The Wall

One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than […]

Marcia Crumley – Q2 Art Competition

Title: Autumn Glory Medium: acrylic on canvas Size: 36" x 24"

Artist Portfolio Magazine – Q2 Art Competition Marcia Crumley – Boston, MA Instagram My work focuses on honoring nature’s “sacred spaces” – particularly the energy that surrounds all vegetation and permeates the water and air that support life on earth. I make this energy palpable by leaving flashes of the contrasting underpainting visible around the […]

William Francis Brennan – Q2 Art Competition

Title: The Ghetty docked Medium: Oil Size: 75 x 75 x 2 cm

Artist Portfolio Magazine – Q2 Art Competition William Francis Brennan – Zossen, GermanyVitae / Artist Statement William Francis Brennan was born in 1949 in Massachusetts / USA. He grew up on the family’s farm and started painting at age 10. From 1970 to 1980 he worked as an artist in Toronto/Canada and from 1980 to […]

William Francis Brennan – Q2 Art Competition

Title: On the jetty Medium: Oil Size: 90 x 90 x 2 cm

Artist Portfolio Magazine – Q2 Art Competition William Francis Brennan – Zossen, Germany Vitae / Artist Statement William Francis Brennan was born in 1949 in Massachusetts / USA. He grew up on the family’s farm and started painting at age 10. From 1970 to 1980 he worked as an artist in Toronto/Canada and from 1980 […]

James Bush – Q2 Art Competition

Title: Weary Rabbit Medium: Acrylic on Plywood Size: 12 x 18

Artist Portfolio Magazine – Q2 Art Competition James Bush – Scottsdale, AZ REMI JABUH Born in 1952 to an Army family, he traveled the world studying and practicing art and photography as a youth and young adult in Japan, Germany, Italy, Washington DC. Korea and along the Orient Express. From young adult to middle age […]

Janice Briones Weers – Q2 Art Competition

Title: Betta Unfurled Medium: Ceramic Sculpture Size: 12"L x 6"W x 10"H

Artist Portfolio Magazine – Q2 Art Competition Janice Briones Weers – Half Moon Bay, CA Instagram I have always had a fire in my gut to create with my hands. In 2014, at 52 years old, I “discovered” pottery. It was like an epiphany: From a ball of clay, shaped with my own two hands […]