NATIONAL ART SCHOOL
Sydney, Australia
PAINTING BY CHANCE
Eric Niebuhr
Discover the unexpected
and liberate your painting from your conscious mind
by approaching painting
through a variety of chance techniques.
Choose ONE ARTIST ` a favorite and cleverly answer the questions using only song names from that artist.
My Life According to... The Beatles.
Are you a male or female?
Girl ` Woman ` She's a Woman
Describe yourself:
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
How do you feel:
Love of the Loved ♡
Describe where you currently live:
Across the Universe
If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Hey Jude! {My Favorite Bar on Boracay Island in the Philippines}
Your favorite form of transportation:
Yellow Submarine
Your best friend is:
Anna {From The Please Please Me Album}
You and your best friends are:
Three Cool Cats ` Wild Honey Pie
Your favorite color is:
Blackbird
What's the weather like:
September in the Rain ` Here Comes the Sun
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
A Day in the Life
What is life to you:
Rock and Roll Music
Your current relationship:
Hold Me Tight ` I'm In Love {1963 ` no release/demo only}
Breaking up:
Cry Baby Cry ` All Things Must Pass
Looking for:
Real Love ♡
Wouldn’t mind:
Flying ` Free as a Bird
Your fear:
A World Without Love ` Misery
What is the best advice you have to give:
Let It Be
If you could change your name, you would change it to:
Penny Lane ♡
How I would like to die:
Like Dreamers Do
Motto:
All We Need is Love ♡
Picasso once said, “All children are born artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
THE PHILIPPINES IN A STATE OF CALAMITY
SEPTEMBER
2009
Csikszentmihalyi (1990,1996) has concluded that the major distinguishing characteristic of creative people is the capacity to experience “flow,” that experience of timelessness and oneness with the activity in which one is engaged.
In a flow state, people have a sense that their abilities are only just equal to the challenge that the project provides; therefore, they are caught up in the process of creating in order to enhance the flow state.
Source:
Measuring Creativity in Research and Practice
Barbara Kerr and Camea Gagliardi
Arizona State University
Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something entirely unrelated.
The word derives from Swarnadip, the Sanskrit language name for Sri Lanka, and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend, taken from a silly fairy tale he read, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of...
The letter read,"this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word."
Source: Wikipedia
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It was an instant in August when I was pressed for time. It was the last painting for the exhibition, and I hate to admit it, but I cheated by using an unfinished work of mine whose likeness held the concept I wished to portray... a visual form.
In that moment, a dear friend of mine from across the universe expressed how much he adored that painting of mine - the very last painting. He asked that it be his without the knowledge that it was always his to begin with... it is fated.
It was sometime in February when I started on the original painting, a little after this special kind of love found me. But then life happened, and with time and space as the villains, the painting was left unfinished... until now.
I was taken by sweet disbelief when he wanted that piece in particular, because that painting is in all honesty of him. The form which is now the bridegroom is the stance he held in that moment we shared in the artist's studio... where time stopped.
I absolutely delight in all the surprises my life holds, the existence and development of events that happen by chance. I love how it is when I am not looking that inspiration finds me and gives me the sweetest of kisses... serendipity.
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
2009
MIXED MEDIA
14x18
IN THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF RYAN MOORE
THE PARABLE OF THE SALT OF THE EARTH
Matthew 5:13
Salt a valuable commodity, one that preserves.
Salt though a valuable commodity, the humblest ingredient.
Salt, an image used to describe how disciples are to live in the world.
Salt, an abstract representation of truth thirsty for goodness.
Salt that has lost its savor, good for nothing.
Salt that flavors, a thirst for life.
The piece is painful in its texture,
like that of salt cleansing the wound of sin.
The essence is growth in difficulty,
a life given to be touched and changed by the Christ.
2009
MIXED MEDIA
16x20
P15,000.00
THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS
Luke 19:11-27
Some are born into abundance, whilst others into scarcity.
But what matters is not what we are given; it is what we do with it.
Our talents are entrusted to us,
and to create abundance requires movement beyond fear.
We are stewards of our wealth,
wealth well beyond material possessions.
The praise, given for faithfulness, and not for result.
The reward, joy in serving, an outward flow into the work done.
The piece is just in its composition,
like that which is expected of what we are given.
The essence is a bold courage in faith,
a life moved by an unmoved faithfulness to God.
2009
MIXED MEDIA
16x20
P13,000.00
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
Matthew 25:1-13
A story of great dramatic expectancy and a night of romance,
but also a warning.
The midnight hour, an agonizing and an ecstatic threshold in time.
The lamp, a symbol of the spirit of a person.
The oil, a picture of God's Eternal Spirit.
A call to spiritual attentiveness,
and an important spiritual preparation in God.
The midnight cry will be a cry of alarm,
but for the wise a time of great wonder.
The piece is dark in its form,
like the darkness that falls beyond our comfort.
The essence is that a fear of God is the beginning of wisdom,
a life prepared for the coming of the Bridegroom.
2009
MIXED MEDIA
14x18
P9,000.00
