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Dayton, WA
$325.00
Title
Alpine Stream
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
Where do you go when you need to think – to deeply, intently, and profoundly think?
Different people people seek out different places, in accordance with their circumstances and preferences. And while those places vary – the beach, the bathroom, a mountain lake, the back yard – it’s likely that they will share one common denominator: the place sought will be quiet, free from distractions.
After all, what kind of deep, intent, profound, focused, serious thinking is ever done in front of a TV screen?
The artwork, Alpine Stream, invites the viewer into one of these quiet, calm places. Set in the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon, USA, the painting is a vertical vignette of a much, much larger landscape. A quiet stream flows gently at our feet. When we follow it with our eyes, it directs us upward, inward, toward the mountains in the distance.
It is a scene of timelessness, and there is comfort in that timelessness. Whether we are here or not, the mountains are, the stream is, the trees quietly grow year by year from sapling to towering sentinels. Hidden in the undergrowth, small animals scurry about their daily living, totally unaware of and completely unconcerned about the “issues” that the actors who read off of teleprompters impart to a fearful, anxious public.
This is no place for politics, propaganda, slick commercials, official pronouncements, shaking heads and scolding fingers. This is a place for thinking.
Our thinking. Our thoughts. Our questions. Our wondering. Our imagining.
And the more we do this thinking, questioning, wondering, imagining, the further we move away from the directed narrative that streams through our electronic devices and through our brains, and the closer we move to the deep potential we all have within us to create, be, and live as free human beings.
Step into the world of Alpine Stream. Listen to the sound of the water. Take a deep, deep breath, maybe even lift your arms up high and just feel your ability to stretch and move. And think.
It would be really really difficult to ever argue that too many people in the modern world spend too much time thinking.
Featured on 29 Fine Art America groups.
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February 10th, 2021
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Minneapolis, MN - United States
wow so wonderfully amazingly fabulous, Congratulations on your sale!
Port Orange, FL - United States
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups Special Features #20 promotion discussion. Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views Group....L/F/Tw
Piney Flats, TN - United States
To answer the question, nature is where I seek the quiet I need for creativity and to just think. Beautiful painting.
R B, CA - United States
Love the strokes, and as always... the sense of the light and color Steve ! L/F
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Excellent capture, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L … voted for this piece in the FOCUS ON WILDLIFE AND OR THE GREAT OUTDOORS contest!
JABALPUR, MA - India
Amazing work on Nature GRAND composition with lovely brush Strokes Divine .. + L f Tw
Granville - United States
Congratulations! Your wonderful art is being featured in Emotive Art Group! Please take a moment to visit the group and archive your work under the feature discussion link provided! ~Diamante
Nairobi, Na - Kenya
Beautiful work! Bravo! Your amazing art has been Featured in "Peopleless Scenic Landscapes" Group
Burlington, NJ - United States
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured on the homepage of the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! 2/21/21 l/f/pin
Pacific Northwest - United States
Congratulations your outstanding artwork has been “featured” on the leading page of Impressionism group! Please take a moment to add it to the New Featured Art Archive #15 and the Catalogs in the group’s discussions. Excellent work! Lori
Burlington, NJ - United States
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. 2/14/21 l/f/pin
Bensalem, PA - United States
Congratulations your beautiful artwork is being featured in the World We See:-)
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