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BY A GRACE OF SENSE
GAIL SEVERN GALLERY DECEMBER 2016 – JANUARY 2017

The title for this show comes from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. I often read his poems, taking a section and considering it from different perspectives, watching it appear in the development of a painting, or embedding the script within layers of paint. In one section of Burnt Norton, the phrase “by a grace of sense” hovers jewel-like, asking us to reverse the expected sequence of words.

It is by a grace of sense one realizes that no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert, that the world is grace-full, and charged …