Redwine Art Gallery
"Windowpane 2"
Oil on canvas, 1969, (detail), Christopher Redwine
Giclee Print # 001
This print is of my first oil painting. I was sixteen, my mother was an artist, she encouraged me to try painting, I was just messing around with it, and this was what came out.
It reminds me of the psychedelics of those years, thus the name (in the 60's and 70's, "Windowpane" was a name for a type of LSD, with a drop of it on a 1/4" square of a transparent gellatin film). The paint is really gobbed on, my mom was a little upset that I used so much paint, I didn't know that the oil paints were so expensive.
I gave it to who I thought was one of my closest best friends. I reaquired it a few years ago.
This oil painting was a mystery to me, very subconscious stuff going on in this one, pretty strange right brain expressionism, way before I even knew what that meant. I've stared into it countless times, hypnotized into a window to my soul, a subconscious view of my self. To me, it is a living painting, mystery and life secrets are hidden in the random flow of colors and oil. The older I get, the more it all makes sense.
"Windowpane 2"
Oil on canvas, 1969, (detail), Christopher Redwine
Giclee Print # 001
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