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cuke-The-Arts  as in music  and film n video and

cuke art-art department
 - as in painting and drawing

See DC's illustrations for his novel, To Find the Girl from Perth

1-15-12 - The art of Yeachin Tsai - Yeachin translated Not Always So into Chinese. - here's her daily art blog.

1-07-12 - Check out the fine art of Catherine Anderson whom I remember from Green Gulch back in the mid eighties.

10-22-11 - Judith Kennan Photography  - Good stuff. Met Judith when she was in charge of construction projects at Tassajara. - dc

10-18-11 - Jenny Wunderly's wonderlious Art keeps coming. Check out her website.

Search for Jenny Wunderly Art on Facebook.

8-27-11 - Check out the incredible art of our new friend Khalila Friedman.

8-15-11 - Jeff Myers Art - and here's another link to the same site. Wow. Jeff practices with John Tarrant. Talked to him and his wife Sonja at the annual (I guess) PZI (Pacific Zen Inst) summer party. He's got a great big beautiful piece behind the altar (sort of) these days at the PZI Santa Rosa Zendo. - dc

7-14-11 - The beautiful art of Melanie Yendes (which is German, not Spanish)

7-01-11 - Got the following message on Facebook the other day:

Bonjour David, j'ai beaucoup apprécié votre livre sur laz vie de Suzuki Roshi, voici une image de mon travail. Bonne journée jl

Jean-luc Lacombe

He's a painter. Here's his website.

4-26-11 - Brian Howlett's facebook friend and dharma pal Jamie Howell asked for a Bodzilla-T design for his spring 2011 Zen tour. here 'tis. See more Brian Howlett below.

Here's a site of Brian's

4-25-11 - Father Steve Frost's Easter upload of his painting,
EC STASIS!

12-27-10 - Father Steve Frost has new writing, poetry and prose, on his web sites, mainly <http://ecai.org/NEPSIS/> but also http://www.nepsis.com/. But the sites are dominated by his wonderful art.

11-27-10 - Brian Howlett, Zen art man from sublime to whimsey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian's Art site

Brian's blog - with cartoons and comment

The Full Moon Society - he's a promoter of poetry.

His Facebook page

On Tricycle's blog

Brian did the art for two cuke.com tee shirts and other items available at Cafe Press - Buddhism (the religion that promises nothing and) Delivers and Zen Failure. Check 'em out in the Buddhism and Nothings section of the Cuke Basket.

Thanks Brian. - dc
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10-25-10 - This beautiful painting by Jenny Wunderly recently adorned a wall at a John Tarrant sesshin. Check out Jenny's website.

8-10-10 - Paintings and Drawings by Dan Welch (discovered this looking for a picture of Richard Jaffe for whom two of these art works are dedicated. One is also for yours truly and hangs in my bedroom. - dc)

8-01-10 - Leo's Buddha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6-28-10 - Thanks to old pal John DeSmidt for sending along this Russian Tire Buddha.

4-18-10 - The Inklings of Michael Wenger

Prior Wenger art on cuke

Dairyu Michael Wenger cuke link page

11-11-09 - At 11:11 we plan to arrive at the Museum Rietberg for the Treasures from ancient Gandhara, Pakistan show.

11-02-09 - Himalaya Blue, Tibetan Red invitation from creator Zsolt Suto. See Zsolt's, yun.ro, with wondrous color photos, German text, and a tribute Zsolt's art by Acharya David Schneider below. His show is on the 8th of november 2oo9 at 13:3o In the Benedictushof Centre for Spiritual Pathways in Holzkirchen (near Würzburg), in Germany – more info about Benedictushof in English here.  MORE

10-29-09 - Check out the beautiful art of Sophia Dixon Dillo.

10-18-09 - Damion Maynard sends some art cuke way

 

 

7-21-09 - Hello David; I originally did a detailed pencil sketch of this Image of Suzuki Roshi after reading Zen Mind, Beginners mind in the late Seventies ,I never met him ,But appreciated his down to earth wisdom. After my parents passed on ,I rediscovered him and Painted this Painting if you wish you can see more of my work at www.davidngoldberg.com A Poet Friend of mind from the Bay Area sent me Zen is Right Here the other day. - Thank You ,David N.Goldberg.  - Thank you David G. -  dc

click on image to enlarge

6-27-09 - Ray Sumser has a great art site.

Don't miss this great piece: the Comicosm. Take a look at it and then to help him go here.

5-27-09 - Solitary Rock, Calligraphy by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, created on the occasion of Suzuki Roshi's death

click thumbnail to enlarge or go to this page

 

3-11-09 - Shunryu Suzuki's first student was Bill McNeil. Here is one of his paintings. More on Bill later.  Thanks to Joe Bacon for sending them.

9-30-08 - Bill's Schwob's wonderful Art Work will be exhibited at Emeryvill Art Exhibition. 5815 Shellmound Way, Emeryville 94608
Exhibition Dates: October 4 though October 26
Exhibition Hours: 11am-6pm daily
Reception: October 3, Friday, 6pm-9pm
Bill did a great series of photos of Rinsoin, Suzuki Roshi's temple in Japan. Must get them scanned and on cuke.com. Check out the web site for Bill's professional photography..

7-06-08 - Michael Sawyer's funeral was held on
Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 3 p.m.
 at Green Gulch Farm
 
Family and friends celebrated and grieved the passing of a beloved brother, husband, father, monk, painter, and inspirational spiritual friend who passed away with his loved ones present at home at Green Gulch Farm on June 5 2008.  See more on Sangha news.  See his amazing art featured with an article in the latest Tricycle.

6-14- Michael Sawyer 's funeral will be on Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 3 p.m at Green Gulch Farm. (Call 415-354-0411 for directions) See more on Sangha news.  See his amazing art featured with an article in the latest Tricycle.

5-27-08 Taken with the crappiest of cellphone cameras. The largest installation of Henry Moore sculptures is currently at the New York Botanical Garden. According to note from MS they are all Buddhas, most of them reclining. Thanks Michael Sierchio via Katrinka.

5-26-08 - And now there are four more Michael Wenger brushings.

5-14-08 - Long before there was cukeTheArts there was Miscellaneous. Therein resided these fine jpgs of Michael Wenger's whimsical yet profound brushings. Now we welcome them into this section - at least with a link. Michael - more!

 

5-13-08 - Check out the website for Alex Murawski, the artist who did the great cover for Thank You and OK! an American Zen Failure in Japan. And click on that thumbnail to enlarge. When Shambhala republished this book I got hold of Alex through his web site and he still had the original which was rescanned which is why it looks so great now. Thinking about Alex because sought advice for agreement with artist on cover and images for other book coming soon. - dc

4-16-08 -

Kyoto Art and Antiques is having an open warehouse sale in Seattle, May 1-11. See the PDF flier for this auspicious event. Even if you don't want to buy anything, just go by and say hi to the charming proprietors who are old friends of mine. Also, their wares are superlative. Tell 'em cuke sent you. - dc

4-02-08 - The art of Karen Hamilton - wonderful collage paintings and landscapes.

During April she will be showing 50 small pieces at the 20th St. Gallery in Sacramento.

Karen Hamilton moved to City Center in 1980 and spent two practice periods and two summers at Tassajara in 1982-83. She was lay ordained by Linda Cutts in 2002. Karen lives in Sacramento and practices at the Iron Bell Zendo. Her paintings will be on display at City Center in Sept. 2008.

3-24-08 - Lane Olson has an article on Mayumi Oda in Persimmontree, an online literary magazine by women over sixty. No Lane - you can't be over sixty! - dc. You're supposed to sign up to get in and here's the link to Lane's article called The Artistry of Mayumi Oda. And here's Mayumi's site.

3-18-08 - Check out the art of Patrick McFarlin, an old Zen friend from back in the sixties. I've got a painting of his up above the bed - his version of Dogen's self-portrait. I've also got an interview from 1993 in Santa Fe, NM, with him and his wife, Deborah Madison of cookbook fame in here somewhere that I'll be working on to get on cuke. She and I were at Tassajara together way back then as well. And she was the chef at Greens at the first when I was the host.  - dc

3-05-08 - Check out Dharma Dog, the latest addition to the new cuke-Art-art department of the cuke-The-arts section. Dharma Dog is no more. Go here for Brian's new sites and stuff.

featuring paintings and drawings by Brian Howlett with John Tarrant

of PZI - Pacific Zen Inst.

 

3-03-08 - See the watercolors of Michael Sawyer. The first item in the new art-art section of cuke.

Michael is under hospice care now at Green Gulch Farm. An article by Zenshin Florence Caplow is planned for the May issue of Tricycle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's an art question which is a hyperlink to a bookmark immediately below. Why do that? Because someday there will be many entries between the two. Of course by that time I could just delete it. Ah - so many decisions.

An art question - What do you call art that's just paintings and drawings and stuff like that and not music and theater and film - can't be visual art cause theater and film are visual too. Anyway now there are a Music, a Film n Video, and an Art sections. I want to add a conceptual art section. That's what I call it when I go running around screaming and end up at a slaughter house pouring blood all over myself. What would the overall name be for the Arts? That? The Arts? Oh - I know. I'll call it Art-art. I guess that's another art question. Hmm. I think I'll have an arts section with art, music, film n video, writing and poetry, and conceptual art under it. Anything else? How does that sound?

 
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