The Glen Wild Studio
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A hub of art activity in the Catskills of Sullivan County. A lifetime to learn how to draw the reality that we see in front of us.
Artist statement:
You’ve heard of the terminator, well I’m the delineator. My secret weapon is line, which always moves you through space. Some would call me, in the Italian style, an artist “of touch”. I could see that. Not only are lines vectors of energy careening in all directions, they are by no means weightless, but may vary from heavy and sluggish to light and zippy. I’ve been drawing all my life long, so my hand and eye are wise and under complete control after so many years of practice and exercise My drawings from life look like cartoons in line, but they are deceptively simple. Once the game enacted on each sheet is played out, then, in retrospect, you can begin to see the subject—what the subject was all along but you didn’t know it until each line found its right place, the place that felt right. I’d like to share the fun of these lines in space with folks tired of mass media.
Richard W. Arnold, The Glen Wild Studio, Kiamesha Lake, NY Feb. 7, 2014
getting up, 2012
What We Do
- Drawing and making artist journals. Over forty years experience drawing from observation and process.
- Creating sculptures and figurines in terra cotta, and bronze. Heroes and heroines, mythic and psychological.
- Collecting, writing about, and exhibiting all sorts and styles of art objects that personally interest me.
- Consulting and lecturing on favorite topics.
Old Papuan Gulf drum salvage fragment, c1930s. Note medial axis, raised, pierced nose, and a loose, left-right symmetry. The abstracted features represent the primordial face, readable in two directions. This is part of the "mouth" of the crocodile-drum.