If you stumble, make it apart of the Dance

"When I dance I feel my history most intensely" - Barbara von Enger, painter.

To be left alone at this pretty SPOT

This is the ideal spot for silent solitude. No mobiles, laptops, landline telephones, or the noise of the maddening crowds. Barbara tells us that she has to be alone very often. There is a pleasure in being alone with oneself.
We leave you with this contemplative quote by Thomas Mann: Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite, to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

From the golden brow of Jamaica

The branches of the mangoe tree aching like a pregnant woman with blossom. The mangoe season is upon us, my lovelies. Our inspiration for this week goes as follows, and I quote the painter Barbara von Enger. The only way to stop war and conflict is to introduce peace and a delicious bite of ripe mangoe.
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One eye sees, the other Feels

Barbara von Enger on ART.
There is art as expression of the human condition, there is art which is the function of life expressed by the gifts of man in the interpretation of the totality of lifes experience, and there is art for arts sake.
Painting by the eminent Cuban artist Manuel Mendive.

Behold, my friends, the spring has come

At the ATELIER

We asked the painter Barbara von Enger to send in an inspirational word for us this week. Here's what she shared with us:
"Master all rules so that one can break them like an artist."

The painter Barbara von ENGER

Don't you just love photography? It captures a moment in time which cannot be reproduced as in the photo below.
We especially love the painter Barbara von Enger in this image as she is both demure and introspective.
What did Barbara von Enger's mother say? The more a picture reveals, the less you know about the subject.
Photo credit: The photograph was taken by German photographer Lena Jürgensen Lena photographs for the major German magazines.