CHRIS RILEY ART

It's Sunday. Sept 1st 2013. 3 years since my last blog. Facebook took over and then I got over facebook. I lost my husband, friend and biggest supporter 4 1/2 months ago and I am trying hard to keep on going. Anyone whose lost someone knows it is no easy task. I feel most days like a directionless fool. I still think it's him when the phone rings. Which makes it hard for me to always pick up as it never is and never will be again. Bruce Wayne Riley is, other than my hard work, single handedly responsible for me having an art career. He believed as I did and said..Fuck what everyone else is doing. Just go for it. He said..and I did. Nearly 12 years later and I'm so far emerged in it now...there is no other way to be.

But I face my future without him...at least in body. Of course he is with me. I know he always will be. It helps...a little. He was a master with words. I've never met anyone so clever with the English language. You really had to be awake to catch all his references. I missed many and he would explain and I was continuously amazed. I wish I'd recorded him far more often. He was brilliant.

So what is my next body of work going to look like? I've been busy working on my yard and house. I will stay here. Even though we are on acreage with 3 horses, 2 dogs and 2 cats..a huge shop and several vehicles to maintain. I can work here undisturbed generally and have space to get as messy in my studios as I want.

I don't know yet. I was thinking..since Bruce was such a comedian and always saw the funny side of life that ... as a tribute. I would paint that theme. "The funny side of Life" or celebrating life...something like that. Or the best of life perhaps. Or Loving Life...

I'm going to begin by making a painting a day commitment for September. No matter what. I must produce a painting. Even if its rescuing a failed piece. I will post it here...

Wish me luck.