Portrait of Agnes Martin

This painting is a portrait of the artist Agnes Martin. She lived as a prolific abstract expressionist painter in New Mexico.

I love reading her ideas on art and the parallels between our grid pieces and the role their meditative creation plays in cultivating peace, happiness, and mental balance - as well as how they help bring the internal eye to the external world.

"The inner eye contemplates all that you have ever seen. And the emotions rise as the inner eye operates. And we observe objectively, but the real life of the work depends on the simultaneous inner experience. I urge you to discover your inner experiences when you are not working."

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes and all that seems like error is not error, and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is just the next step.”

Oil on Canvas

Currently on display at Zee Tai Collective