Tai Chi

Tai Chi is an art form and as such there are many complementary aspects of Tai Chi and painting. The most basic is that in Tai Chi you get out of the form what you put into the form. It is the same with any art form. To do is the way. I created this piece as a gift to my tai chi teacher. It’s called Heritage 8 x 8 encaustic collage

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Recent Work

A Few Works from 2010

I painted Still Life with Blue Bottle during the winter after my father’s illness and passing. A quiet still life.

Still Life With Blue Bottle 8 x 10 oil on board
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These selected pieces reflect my continuing interest in the figure as a form, but also as a vessel of memory. While I draw from live models regularly, the paintings are imagined, not painted from life. These are paintings I needed to do, based on versions of personal experience and observation — having fully imagined them and been unable to proceed further without getting them onto the canvas. At that point, the impetus fades and the work takes on a life of its own.

By the Pond 12 x 16 oil on canvas
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Waiting 20 x 12 oil on canvas
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“Bougainvillea” (below) is my delayed response to my mother’s asking me to do a painting
of flowers for her. I could never seem to find a way to approach that subject,
until I lived in California and was overwhelmed by raging, ubiquitous, masses of
bougainvillea. I did not have the time to consider them until this year, from
sketches I had done in 2001. It was only after I closed the gallery that I had
the necessary time to release these wild, delicate blooms from my memory.

Bougainvillea 12 x 12 Oil on Canvas
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Art Finders

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My Girl

Barbara Esmark My Girl Encaustic and Oil Paint 9″ x 7 ” an earlier piece from 2007

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Leslie Bender Joins be Gallery

By the Sea, By the Sea    by Leslie Bender

Kiss of the Bedouin

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