Lake Light, November

LAKE LIGHT, NOVEMBER (Quiet Waters 9)
Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown, acrylic on canvas, 2010)

Lake Light, October

LAKE LIGHT, OCTOBER- painting by Kevin Macneil Brown,
watercolor on paper, October, 2010



Painted on the boat:
Blue circles, lines, and
Contours to reflect

The journey,
The opening of space
That the prow,
Cutting gently,
Seeks and sublimates

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The sky was a sea
For birds and remembrance
In high September

So many strange colors:
Pines and maples and oaks and
Hemlocks; the sharp and
Piercing red
Of berries on mountain ash.

He had brought corn and
Salt, a small flask of
Trader’s whiskey;
Flint and bacon grease,
Line, weight, bait….

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River, you have
Brought me here, he
Said,
Then smiled and shivered.

Stars rose like
everything must

Now October
Shimmered
On the skin of these waters.


-Kevin Macneil Brown

Quiet Waters, Part Three

QUIET WATERS 6- painting by Kevin Macneil Brown,
watercolor and graphite on paper, August 201o

Quiet Waters, Part Two

QUIET WATERS 5, QUIET WATERS 4- paintings by Kevin Macneil Brown,

watercolor on paper, 2010

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My work this summer on the Quiet Waters paintings has been accompanied by the composition of this long-form soundscape piece for lap steel and laptop.

I invite you to listen and take a contemplative journey along the shoreline and on the water:

The Quiet Waters Series

QUIET WATERS 2, QUIET WATERS 1-Paintings by Kevin Macneil Brown,

watercolor on paper, 2010

This summer I'm working on a new series of paintings inspired by the contemplative energies I often find rising within me in at the places where water, sky, and land meet. Here are the first two. Making these images is an active meditation for me; a way to conjure the ineffable connection I feel with these places.

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June Sails, Juniper Island

When I engage with Lake Champlain's waters, sky, and shoreline, I often feel, all at once, both a deep inner calm and a vibrant sense of energy. My intent in this painting was to express these sensations: the wide and deep spaciousness of the lakescape; the movement and energy of light on water, wind in sails.

-KMB

Early Summer, Lake Champlain

EARLY SUMMER, LAKE CHAMPLAIN- painting by Kevin Macneil Brown,
watercolor and graphite on paper, May, 2010)

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...I’m grateful and awed every time I engage with Lake Champlain; with its ever-changing surface, shores, and depths offering knowledge and mystery alike.
-KMB, from "Power of Place"

You can read the entire short essay at :

http://voicesforthelake.org/items/show/4