Counsel Langley
Acrylic Painting

Demonstration

1526 Blaine Street
P.O. Box 1369
Port Townsend, WA 98368
360-379-4943

contact@counsellangley.com
www.counsellangley.com

Open by appointment during rest of the year

Odd stories play out in my mind as I sink into the world of a painting. This dot is the boss of that dot. This color is ‘on,’ that one is ‘off,’ the other is simply emptiness. Electricity flows through the black lines, the blue ones are paths to travel. In these abstract works there is a coded narrative full with emotion, hierarchy, embarrassment, triumph, and, above all, relationships. The tales told here are humorous, mysterious, and intensely passionate. It is the stuff of life—waste of resources, production of offspring, connections of intimate understanding, oppression, and inspiration

For a year-and-a-half my focus has been on a series of abstract cityscapes. The subject matter of this series being my memory of the city—not literally a city, but the effect it has had upon me, both visually and emotionally. It has been a concentrated effort to study the information I have stored away about the city. Since the beginning of 2006 my work continues to include these cityscapes, but now allows for evidence of other influences —outer space, computer chips, electric circuits and an on-going fascination with the physics of turbulence.

Directions

Located on Blaine between Benton and Pierce, Uptown Port Townsend, one block from the High School.

From Lawrence:
Travel up Lawrence away from Kah Tai Lagoon.
Take a left on Benton.
Take a right on Blaine.
Second house on the left,
two-story grey house with green fence

From “F” Street:
Turn on Fir towards High School.
Turn Left on Blaine, one block past High School.
Second house on the left,
two-story grey house with green fence

 tour number
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