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intrudes into them. And I keep thinking.‘the tree limb goes this way. but if I made it with three branches and made them go this way. then 1 would like that, that would make a nicer picture. And the color over there is green, but'if I make it pink or orange or blue, that would be better”
About six months ago, Ramsay said he went through an “epiphany” of sorts: “I was looking at a book of Greek sculpture, those magnificent Greek marbles and bas-relief on the temples, and it occurred to me that as beautiful as they are, they are not the most beautiful, it's just one of many different aesthetics from many different cultures’
Put another way, he says his epiphany was that no culture has the comer on the ultimate aesthetics perfection, “And so now, what I think is beautiful, Constable wouldn’t even look at. He’d just think it was trash and throw it out.”
And that realization freed him to “make things that didn’t look like Gainsborough, Constable. and Italian Renaissance paintings. I can make art different from that, and that satisfies me completely"
Ramsay describes “Lavender Blue," one of the 15 paintings in his October show as “almost the only abstract painting I’ve ever done in my life" and a precursor to what may be his future direction. He says it came to him in a “lucid dream" in which he entered a gallery and saw a beautiful painting, and he remembers saying, “I could do that1”
So he woke up and immediately began a week and a half of feverish painting creating the three* bv four foot abstract painting.
“I’ve tried all my life to make abstracts, but before now, 1 never could do them ”
Gallery goers can view “Seen Scenes" and make their own judgment about what constitutes “representational" or “abstract" art from Oct. 2 through Oct 31 at Middle Street Gallery. Hours are FridaySunday, 11 a m - 6 p m. Visit www.middlestreetgallery.org for more information
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