Waterhouse Gallery
Thomas
Colletta
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Chapter One
50 x 50 Original Oil Painting $10,000 |
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Chapter Two
50 x 50 Original Oil Painting $10,000 |
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Chapter Four
50 x 50 Original Oil Painting $11,800 |
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Two of a Kind
50 x 32 Original Oil Painting $7,800 |
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ARTIST’S STATEMENT
In the eighth grade my parents
gave me a set of oil paints.
A first attempt at this mysterious
medium was rewarded
an honorable mention at our community art fair.
It was even exhibited with the big people’s paintings.
That’s a dangerous compliment
to offer a child, because ever
since that ribbon, I have not put down my brushes.
Any purpose beyond color and composition
that I choose to layer
within a painting is not necessarily what an audience may
read or feel. Each viewer holds his or her own personal relationship
to an image. When recognition occurs, mutual gratitude results.
As the Romantic poet, John Clare
wrote,
“Language has not the power
to speak what love indites,
the soul lies buried in the ink that writes.”
So too it is with paint.
T. R. Colletta
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