A Plein Air Life » threshold

San Clemente Plein Air

Rich Brimer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:04:24 +0000

So, on Friday (June 19th) I will be leaving the daily grind to be a gypsy artist for a week. I will take my newly gesso-ed birch panels with me to San Onofre Beach where it will be my outpost for the week. San Clemente hosts a week long Plein Air competition and [...]

Close-up Rich

Rich Brimer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:02:53 +0000

Sometimes it is just nice to be able look at a painting up close…

; )

Moving Transformationaly

Rich Brimer — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:35:56 +0000

So, I have started a new painting. It seems like this is going to be a nice companion to “Threshold” and one that I have been thinking of this painting for about a year. As you can read in the previous post about the sweater and scarf, there is [...]

Solstices and Thresholds

Rich Brimer — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:08 +0000

John O’donohue tells us about “thresholds”…

“thresholds”…which comes from “thrashing” – which is to separate the grain from the husk. So, the threshold is a place – you move into a more critical, challenging and worthy fullness.

When someone calls you and says to you that someone you love is suddenly dying, it takes [...]

Offerings

Rich Brimer — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:34:36 +0000

Below is an embedded book called Offerings, from the Soil. It is published by the Brehm Center at Fuller. They have included my story “Planting Seeds” that I wrote about my grandmother, Lucy Brimer. Click the middle of the book to open it full size in a new window. (Disable [...]