Portfolio > "Before the taking of a toast and tea"

Red Chairs
Acrylic on Linen
55 x 60
2022
Hearth
Acrylic on Linen
48 x 48
2022
Tea with Birds
Acrylic on Linen
55 x 60
2022
Spring
Acrylic on Linen
38 x 40
2022
Pearl
Acrylic on Linen
38 x 40
2022
Observed Landscape
Acrylic on Linen
48 x 48
2022


Nancy Margolis Gallery
November 2022

* The title for this show, Before the taking of a toast and tea, is a line from a T.S. Eliot poem From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1910-1911. The line comes from a stanza that is particularly relevant in regards to sensations of time and space/ contemplation and anticipation I am trying to make visible in these paintings.

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.”

— T. S. Eliot