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small horse has leapt out of a picture where he was painted in a pasture. The remarkable feature of this painting is the cobalt glass vase, also on the table with the horse holding delicate yellow flowers. All the unlikely objects in this painting are carefully and exactly rendered as.if to convey their reality was the artist’s compelling need. I believe Rene Ruffner doesn’t want to take today’s world at face value; instead, he proclaims that the traditional avenues of approach to life, through religion, symbol and humor, for instance, are as valid and- necessary as they ever were. Through his skills as a painter, he makes a convincing assertion.
Christopher Stephens, one of die area’s most productive and versatile artists, has painted a small landscape in oils of hills that condenses his love of our-countryside that he has often expressed in large, expansive canvases. Devout people sometimes carry icons with them when they travel to assist in their meditations. A .voyager from the Virginia countryside might well take Chris Stephen’s yiew of hills to make a home away from home.
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