The Inward Music

At Caplan Art Designs

March 5 – 28, 2026
Opening reception March 5, 6 – 8 pm

About the work:
“The paintings invite us to fully experience the day-to-day, minute-to-minute joys and challenges of our strengths and limitations, our capacity to love even in the face of adversity, our life’s mission and deepest karma, with an awareness so intense, we come to literally embody our dearest-held aspirations and values.To concentrate such a caliber of profundity within the construct of an oil painting, even a highly symbolic one, is a remarkable feat.  Certainly, a casual viewer would not have to grasp these works’ conceptual frameworks in their entirety to appreciate their complex compositions, vivid color, and luscious surfaces as pure objets d’art.  But closer consideration yields exponential rewards when the paintings in question are teaching tools for accessing the bounties we dually contain and manifest.”

– Richard Speer 

Location: 
Caplan Art Designs
1323 NW 16th Avenue #1001
NOTE: ENTRANCE to the gallery is on NW Pettygrove between 16th & 17th Avenues
Click here for more info  – here is the link to use: https://caplanartdesigns.com/artists/english/

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