Art

Seeing Faces, They’re Everywhere

Here Together, oil on canvas, 18″ x 14″

I can’t stop seeing faces in the background of brushstrokes.

The more I see, the more appear.

I can’t stop seeing faces in the asphalt as I walk to my studio.

They’re in the weave of the rugs, the towels, the walls.

I especially like them in the rock faces surrounding my mountain home.

The more I see, the more appear.

What We Don’t Know, oil on canvas, 12″x12″

Show Time

It’s January and time for my show at Subway Gallery in Bisbee, Arizona. Spirals kept calling, while putting dots on rocks engaged unexpected creative impulses, so much so that I had to wean myself off of rocks by putting dots on canvases before continuing with a few more spirals. At the end of 2024 another vision emerged and we’ll see where that takes me in 2025. All paintings are oil on canvas, except for dots which are acrylics.

Spirit Manifests, 60″ x 48″

As Above…, Twister Diptych, and Storm Cycle

Blue Whirl, and Birthday in the foreground.

Beacon, Starburst, Pinwheel, surrounding Limbo

Tribal

Dragon

Vesica Piscis, Easter Egg, Traveling

Sunrise 48″ x 48″

And the latest painting, which may lead in other directions:

Seeing Faces, 40″ x 30″

My show opened on January 11th and continues through February 2nd, 2025 on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. If you’re in the neighborhood of 43 Brewery Avenue in Bisbee, Arizona, please come for a visit.

Sunrise

We are spiraling now

Milky Way beings that we are

Sometimes it’s obvious

Such as re-occurring events on similar calendar dates

But I awoke this dawn

Only to hear the cat

Crying to be let in

A tight spiral

Sunrise, oil on canvas, 48″ x 48″

(c) Cheyenne MacMasters 2024

Surprise Sale

Hanging out last Saturday night with fellow artists, a woman approached a painter and asked if he had painted a black painting of a canoe. He was pretty sure he hadn’t and then it occurred to me that I had painted one, called At Sea in G Major that I posted here in 2017. She really, really wanted it, had been thinking about it since I last showed it at my gallery in 2022. I thought of a price, she thought of the same price, and on Thursday I delivered the painting and we spent the next three hours telling stories. A new friendship was born.

Yesterday she sent me a text describing the first night with the painting. I share it here because it is how one hopes their work will be appreciated.

“I’m so thrilled to have this painting of yours!! Jim loves it too! Last night we pulled 2 chairs up behind the couch and sat there and stared at it and played Wagner’s music and then he read from TS Elliot’s the Dry Salvages. We were both sooo inspired by your work throughout the evening!”

A happy home, a new friendship. It’s been a very good week.

Happy weekend everyone.

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