“To re-present words is far more difficult, because the relation is so close between model and artist. The novelist works in the very material out of which the object he is trying to render is made. He must use, to express soul, the signs which soul uses to express it self. It is relatively easy to separate the artistic vision of an object from its complex and tangled actuality if one has to re-see it in paint or marble or bronze; it is infinitely difficult to render a human mind when one is employing the very word-dust with which thought is formulated.”~~ p. 16, The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton

 

“For this reason, I, a writer, paint. …

The practice of process painting brings my mind to a state of forgetting itself.

Putting brush and paint to canvass returns me to that part that belies the word-dust from which the thoughts of my stories take flight.

Painting is my path into the cloud of unknowing …  where my mind can, and does not rule.

Basking in the koan of the mindless mind, thoughts disintegrate.

I unleash my imagination.

The inner child of my most authentic self descends.

She and I play, the images we create unearthing stories of our heart that express, our, my soul’s deepest yearnings.”

~~anjuelle floyd on the importance of Process Painting to her art of writing fiction.     

      

 

 

  

 

          

The Dance Between Words and Paint, Paper and Canvas

              … the symbiosis of writing and painting …

 

Join me for a month-long celebration of living my passion as a novelist and abstract painter

 

20th Annual Berkeley/Oakland Festival of Women Authors

Join me and 4 other authors–Patricia Bracewell, Kelly Corrigan and Liz Jasper for a day-long discussion of our love for books and how we came to writing as our passion.

Saturday, February 1st, 2014, 9am-2pm

H’s Lorships at the Berkeley Marina                                                                                                                                                                                         Berkeley, CA Purchase

Tickets @ http://www.ywca-berkeley.org/2014/01/01/18th-annual-festival-of-women-authors-2012/

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The Art of Living Black (TAOLB) Satellite Exhibition

Artist’s Reception

Saturday, February 1st, 2014, 5pm-8:30pm

Black Bean Gallery                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    561 Emory Street                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     San Jose, CA

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18th Annual The Art of Living Black Exhibition (TAOLB)

Artists’ Talk
Saturday, February 8th and 15th, 2014                                                                                                                                                                                             12 noon-2pm

Artists’ Reception
Saturday, February 8th, 2014                                                                                                                                                                                                   3pm-5pm

Richmond Art Center (RAC)                                                                                                                                                                                                                2540 Barrett Avenue                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Richmond, CA

 

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