Hi David, thanks for getting in touch. I really enjoyed the connection you make between the Nepalese chickens and the paintings from antiquity. Your paintings are beautifully made and carry an elegance and insight that is extremely appealing.
I hope some of the readers of this newsletter click on your website link (davidligare.com).
Dear Christopher- thanks for the essay on Fruit. When I was in Nepal in 2000 I noticed that the offerings left in shrines were being eaten by feral chickens. That reminded me of paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum. I discovered that there were paintings of offerings on altars. I subsequently have made many still life paintings based on my research. You can read about it on my website. I made my first exhibition of my offerings paintings in London (Offerings: A New History) and I made three more in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The paintings sold well but no critic had comment on my discovery of a genre of still life painting that was hitherto unnoticed. It is, I think, a beautiful meaning of thanks to still life painting.
Hi David, thanks for getting in touch. I really enjoyed the connection you make between the Nepalese chickens and the paintings from antiquity. Your paintings are beautifully made and carry an elegance and insight that is extremely appealing.
I hope some of the readers of this newsletter click on your website link (davidligare.com).
Dear Christopher- thanks for the essay on Fruit. When I was in Nepal in 2000 I noticed that the offerings left in shrines were being eaten by feral chickens. That reminded me of paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum. I discovered that there were paintings of offerings on altars. I subsequently have made many still life paintings based on my research. You can read about it on my website. I made my first exhibition of my offerings paintings in London (Offerings: A New History) and I made three more in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The paintings sold well but no critic had comment on my discovery of a genre of still life painting that was hitherto unnoticed. It is, I think, a beautiful meaning of thanks to still life painting.
My best- David Ligare (davidligare.com)