oil and synthetic resin
68.5 x 91.4 cm
© 1963 Alex Colville
Provenance: Collection of Donnelley Erdman, Aspen Colorado
This marvellous super Moon night, I thought it appropriate to again share Alex Colville’s sublime genius.
http://www.ago.net/alex-colville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Colville
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Oil on Canvas
36 x 36 Inches
© 2013 Wim Heldens
Provenance: Private collection
Love Wim’s masterful sensual use of light and colour.
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Twenty years ago, when flying in to Manhattan from Vancouver to be with then lover, Manhattan cabaret singer, Frans Bloem, I would meet Wim. As all I ever do is sense energy and think of anyone encountered as a Michael Overleaves puzzle – is this a warrior or just a cynic? – I knew without a doubt that he was an old soul. Like every other old soul encountered whose overleaves I have done, I felt a sense of home, acceptance and harmony for being in his presence.
At the time, Wim was sick in bed with the flu and so I went out shopping and got him some Campbell’s soup – what do I know about making homemade soup? – and spent part of an evening hanging with him. The interlude was truly memorable; it was like being in a dream which, incidentally, is also another hallmark for me of being in the presence of an old soul.
Wim truly is a great human.
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Acrylic polymer emulsion on hardboard
60 x 120 cm
© 1980 Alex Colville
Provenance: Art Gallery Mount Allison University Sackville, New Brunswick
Gift of Mr. Ross B.
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Yesterday I did lunch with a friend from Montréal and we then went to the AGO – Art Gallery of Ontario to take in the recently opened Alex Colville show. I paused and actually lost tears on seeing this masterpiece. I have always liked his works and was not familiar with this piece. This masterpiece manages to perfectly encapsulate the utter abandon one experiences when focussed in flying dreams. For me the moment was truly rhapsodic.
http://www.ago.net/alex-colville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Colville
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Watercolour
© 2013 James Gayles
Born in the year of the Rat and on the same day (August 2) as me, James also happens to be an entity mate. Though I never met him, Merlin did. As we drove from actor, Joe Morton’s Upper West Side tiny apartment from his annual Halloween pumpkin kill in 1982 – we were en route to Times Square and Frederick Jones’s where we would first meet, had also met Joe Morton for the first time that night – Merlin spoke lovingly of James Baldwin whom he had met the year prior through a Black American writer friend of Frederick’s whom I never met as he had died in a car crash in July 1982. James ever will remain one of my favourite writers. Of course, it goes without saying that whilst he was alive, I dreamt often of James thanks to our being entity mates.
Happy birthday entity mate.
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Oil on Canvas
101 x 101 cm
© 2013 Jonathan Yeo
My favourite actor by my favourite living British portraitist.
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Oil on Panel 18.3 x 13.8 Inches c. 1600 Otto van Veen Provenance: Permanent Collection Rubenshuis, Antwerp. http://www.rubenshuis.be/Museum_Rubenshuis_EN At the time of this painting, I was incarnate, female and exceptionally beautiful. I was then a muse of both Otto van Veen and later his famous student, Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Apparently, owing to his ‘shortcomings’, […]
Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 Inches © 1983 Bryan Organ Provenance: National Portrait Gallery, London, England, (commissioned) http://www.npg.org.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Organ ___________________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2025 Arvin da Brgha. All Rights Reserved.
Oil on Canvas 51.2 x 56.2 cm © 1985 Lucian Freud. Provenance: Private Collection My favourite Lucian Freud… it is always lucidly intense to dream of this shaman! ________________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2025 Arvin da Brgha. All Rights Reserved.
Oil on Canvas 78 x 58 Inches © 1988 Francis Bacon Provenance: Tate Britain This afternoon I spent two glorious hours at the AGO with my lovely sister, Pandora. She was in town from Ottawa on legal business; she is a federal lawyer having previously worked in the Prime Minister’s Office, followed by a decade […]
Oil on Canvas 52 x 40 cm © 2010 Rupert Alexander Provenance: Royal Warrant Holders Association, London (Royal Collection) http://www.rupertalexander.com/index.html ________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2025 Arvin da Brgha. All Rights Reserved.
Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul. 