Passion and Poetry — Kris Brewer Fine Art

Rodin's "Alsacienne Girl"

Legion of Honor SF, CA

Charcoal on tea-stained paper

20” x 15”

Bathing Woman

17” x 11”

Pencil on tea-stained and gesso paper

KBrewer Life-drawing class

Pencil on homemade paper

6” x 10”

“In your light I learn how to love.

You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,

but sometimes I do,

and that sight becomes this art.” -Rumi

Rodin's Camille Claudel

Legion of Honor SF, CA

Charcoal and gesso on paper

24” x 20”

“'I close my mouth and speak to you in a hundred silent ways.”

-Rumi

Rodin's Jesus and the Magdalen

Legion of Honor Museum

Charcoal on paper

24” x 30”

Dancing is what feelings look like

Legion of Honor

SF, CA

charcoal and pigment on tea-stained paper

18” x 10”

Aristide Maillol's Striding Woman

Legion of Honor Museum SF, CA

Charcoal on coffee-stained paper

30” x 24”

Feathered Helmet

De Young Museum SF, CA

Charcoal and watercolor

24” x 20”

Feathered Armor

De Young Museum SF, CA

Charcoal and acrylic on paper

40” x 30”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

-Nelson Mandela

Michaelangelo's David--Florence, IT

24” x 20”

Charcoal and pigment on

tea-stained paper

Rodin's Prodigal Son

Legion of Honor SF, CA

Charcoal and pigment on tea-stained paper

24” x 20”

CROOKED DEALS
”There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office ------
Why vote him in?
For he never keeps the accounts straight.
He gets all kinds of crooked deals
Happening all over town
That will just give you a big headache
And glue to your kisser
A gigantic
Confused
Frown”
- Hafiz, 14th Century Sufi mystic

Rodin's Call to Arms

Legion of Honor SF, CA

Charcoal on paper

30” x 24”

Passion is the elixir that renews:

how can there be weariness

when passion is present?

Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:

seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

-Rumi

Trojan Bust

Legion of Honor SF, CA

Charcoal on tea-stained paper

30” x 24”

The Foot of David-Florence, IT

18” x 24”

Charcoal on tea-stained paper

Candlelight Songstress, 1640

Legion of Honor SF, CA

Charcoal and pigment on tea-stained paper

24” x 20”

KBrewer Life Drawing Class

Charcoal on paper

24” x 20”

Rodin's "Kiss"

-Legion of Honor, SF, CA

24” x 20”

Charcoal on paper

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,

to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

Heart, what a gift it has been

to reach and feel within the breast.”

-The Divani Shamsi Tabriz, XIII

KBrewer Life Drawing

Charcoal on tea and red cabbage-stained paper

24” x 18”

The Journey

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice --though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles."Mend my life!" each voice cried.

But you didn't stop.

You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voice behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do --determined to save the only life that you could save.

-Mary Oliver