by Greg M | Mar 3, 2020 | Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
“The closest analogy to how I experience both the act of painting and a finished work of art is music. While I am painting I feel like music is streaming through me on to the paper. It is difficult to say whether I am playing the music or the instrument being played....
by Greg M | Dec 31, 2019 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
After a fairly quiet year and a half, activity in The Keep has really picked up in the last few months. I think it’s only coincidental that the timing matched my change of heart about participating in the marketplace… but, of course, I could be wrong… Guest...
by Greg M | Oct 26, 2019 | The Creative Life
At the end of 2018, I announced that I was ending online availability of my solo work, partly to protect it against theft, and partly because I believed that I was playing into a global/financial cultural mentality which is antithetical to creative work. The Music...
by Greg M | Jun 3, 2019 | Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
So we conclude the series on my most inspirational kindred spirits! Part 1: Arvo Pärt, Steve Roach, Jack or Jive, Lucette Bourdin. Part 2: Tingstad & Rumbel, Sequentia, Robert Rich. Part 3: Steve Brand, David Hykes, Pat Metheny. Part 4: Yes, Dirk Serries, Alio...
by Greg M | May 28, 2019 | Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
[Photo: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Original here.] We approach the conclusion of this series highlighting my most inspirational kindred spirits. Part 1: Arvo Pärt, Steve Roach, Jack or Jive, Lucette Bourdin. Part 2: Tingstad & Rumbel,...
by Greg M | May 20, 2019 | Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
Continuing the review of my most inspirational kindred spirits… Part 1: Arvo Pärt, Steve Roach, Jack or Jive, Lucette Bourdin. Part 2: Tingstad & Rumbel, Sequentia, Robert Rich. Part 3: Steve Brand, David Hykes, Pat Metheny. Yes Progressive rock is a strange...