Brice Marden Second Letter (Zen Spring) Oil on linen 96 x 144 " After teaching my workshop at MISSA on Vancouver Island in July, I visited my artist friend, Barbra Edwards on Pender Island. She was reading a book about the American abstract artist, Brice Marden, written by Eileen Costello. I picked up a copy of the book when I came home. I love connections and interconnections between people and ideas and events. In my last post ( click here ), I wrote about my brush explorations workshop, where I painted with red cedar brushes and ink, creating calligraphic forms. In reading Eileen Costello's book on Brice Marden, I was excited to learn how Chinese calligraphy had such an enormous influence on his work. Another connection I had to Marden's work was that he was a pioneer in the use of cold wax medium and oil paint. He was working with it for years before Gamblin started manufacturing it. From 1965-1981...