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George Sorrels - the artist

“Having been reared on the north central plains of Texas, I have long been aware of the power and majesty of the sky. I have watched a tornado rip through Dallas, I have witnessed a thunderstorm where lightning walked across the earth, and I have seen clear blue skies that go on forever.

My memories are filled with sunsets that took my breath away, with clouds at the moment of their birth, and with terrifying wall clouds announcing the coming of deadly storms.

The sky is a part of my religion. The first four verses of Psalm 19 clearly state what the sky is to me, although my skyscape paintings seem rather insignificant and trivial in comparison.

Capturing the sky on canvas embodies a quest for the unattainable -- a melding of paint, craftsmenship and absolute visual concentration to produce an unspeakable moment of visual magic, which I call Pictura Mystica.

I hope this exhibit contains paintings that are more than mere paint and support but are paintings in which a cloud, or a feeling of light and air or a passage of ‘color as space’ changes the viewer’s life in some small way.” – George Sorrels