Art meets meditation in the ancient Asian technique of ink wash painting. A contemporary award winner will show how it’s done when the Lemont Artists Guild presents a demonstration by Patricia Larkin Green.
Japanese Culture Center – 日本文化会館
2016.8.4: Japanese Culture Center – 日本文化会館: Introduction to Sumi-e Course
中国遼寧分会後援会賞 Award from China
, Invitational, AnShan City– “ICCPS (International Chinese Calligraphic Art and Ink Painting Society)”, AnShan City, China invited by Society Founder, Ransui Yakata-2015
Honored to receive 中国遼寧分会後援会賞 Award from AnShan City China ICCPS Invitational
Lemont Artists Guild draws top talent for lecture
Lemont Artists Guild to draw on top talent for lecture: Award-winning Larkin Green to demonstrate ink wash painting
(Photo provided by Laurie Peacock and Maggie Rife Ponce)
Chicago Tribune: Sumi-e Asian Ink Painting
Sumi-e Ink Painting
Three Dahlias One Bee Sumi-e by Patricia Larkin Green
Patricia Larkin Green will demonstrate Sumi-e Ink painting. She is well known as a painter along with her skills in sumi-e ink painting. A turning point for her was learning to paint Sumi-e, (East Asian ink wash painting), where her goal is to capture the soul of the subject. When she paints a flower she is freed from reproduction and inspired to convey its movement and fragrance. Less is more. Her website is: patricialarkingreen.com.
i dreamt i was a butterfly sumi-e painting by Patricia Larkin Green
How do we know if life is not an illusion…
and what difference does it make?
Chuang Tzu, a contemporary of Mencius, is universally regarded as the greatest Taoist after Lao Tzu. His butterfly dream is probably the most celebrated dream ever to be recorded in the history of Chinese Philosophy, which makes it almost impossible to omit in any serious expositions of Chuang Tzu’s works. Whether or not the dream actually occurred is not a matter of great importance. What is important is that it has captured the minds of generations of Philosophers
Chuang Tzu, however, preferred something more compromising: “When I say you are dreaming, so am I.” In other words, we are all dreaming. This is best illustrated in his butterfly dream story. ‘The passage:
Once upon a time, Chuang Tzu dreamed that he was a butterfly, flying about enjoying itself. It did not know that it was Chuang Chou.
Golden Dream poem and ensō by Patricia Larkin Green Artist
Golden Dream poem and ensō by Patricia Larkin Green Artist
Elliptic Dream
Condense. Seep.
quench quaking roots…
Come.
Golden Magnanimity
illuminate earth
Artist Talk, Sumi-e Painting at Lemont Artist Guild
Artist Talk, Sumi-e Painting at Lemont Artist Guild, Patricia Larkin Green will provide an overview of the sumi-e tradition of Asian ink painting and a demonstration of Zen painting
Date: October 21st, 2015 7-9 pm
ICCPS Exhibition China October 2015
“ICCPS (International Chinese Calligraphic Art and Ink Painting Society)”, AnShan City, China invited by Society Founder, Ransui Yakata-2014
October 1-14, 2015