Comments for @JHerbertArtist

Comment on Tullee by TJ Ferny

TJ Ferny — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:05:25 +0000

I love your pictures and your thoughts. You look so intense whilst working.

Comment on Painting Masha Masturbating; Photos Aeric Meredith-Goujon by RachelintheOC

RachelintheOC — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:28:59 +0000

Blazin’ hot, le artiste. Love seeing you lost in your element. Tough job, but someone’s gotta do it I guess.

Comment on DEAD SUZANNE by Jonathan Herbert the Artist

Jonathan Herbert the Artist — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:54:01 +0000

Dear Athena,

A perfect name for one who sees so well into this. The wonderful thing about shamanistic painiting is that it is innately powerful. The challenging bit is that you might get lost there.

Comment on My Story, Briefly by Ela

Ela — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:43:34 +0000

Can you post your Eden here, so I can see it?

Comment on DEAD SUZANNE by Athena Taylor

Athena Taylor — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:46:25 +0000

A harrowing image….from a dark place between Scylla & Charybdis. This is devoid of life but earthy and raw like blood & guts at the same time. Very strange…. you must be exhausted from going so deep into your fear and emotions. Thank you for taking such a risk in the process!

Comment on immolation SELF-PORTRAIT from 1979 posting Winter Solstice 2010 by Ela

Ela — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:47:10 +0000

I kind of understand the pouring of the painting and emotions through the painter as of shamanic process, although I don’t have much knowledge about that.
Not everyone can be a shaman, right? sometimes scary places show up.
What I experienced as a painter was, mostly like someone else was telling me how to paint, kind of like guiding me thru the process.
Do you think it is possible that long gone painters, even the famous ‘talk’ to us when we paint? you know, silently in our mind we have the conversation with them? like telepathic conversation sort of a thinking.. I think it is possible. or another explanation is a split mind, which would mean another part of us talk to another part of us, if you know what I mean.

I am looking forward your new Angel series. I paint cosmos, when I paint, or hearts, when I paint.
I love cosmic images.

Comment on immolation SELF-PORTRAIT from 1979 posting Winter Solstice 2010 by Jonathan Herbert the Artist

Jonathan Herbert the Artist — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:35:22 +0000

Thank you for viewing and sharing your thought process. While it is true that I am do work with emotions, I consider myself in the shamanic tradition and that I commune with a far deeper, otherworldly place. When I paint I get out of the way; the paintings pour through me.

1979 was a Dionysian time, when I was suffering from the post-traumatic stress disorder that was the result of my childhood. I was a great painter and a dangerous man.

Comment on immolation SELF-PORTRAIT from 1979 posting Winter Solstice 2010 by Ela

Ela — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:28:26 +0000

I just read your artist statement. Now I know how you define your art. Insightful. Emotions to the surface.

Respectuly thank you for sharing.

Ela

Comment on immolation SELF-PORTRAIT from 1979 posting Winter Solstice 2010 by Ela

Ela — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:55:36 +0000

wow, 31 years ago, kind of a disturbing image, maybe that is not a correct word to describe it but definately not a balanced figure.
The only hope I see in this picture is the blue in the middle of the throat.

Comment on Views from a Yellow Cab by Ela

Ela — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:42:24 +0000

Art is a weird, the painter and the paintings are one, we are one..

How do you feel about that? we are what we eat, and we are what we paint sort of a thinking..
the portrayal of the women you are painting is actually you and your emotions ,not the women.
do you agree? or disagree