The late minister Henry Ward Beecher once said, “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” A glimpse of those creative souls can be seen in the form of ...

Painting? In that region of the western desert so long resistant to the depiction of traditional forms and symbols in art for outside eyes? Since then, the painting movement has spread at speed ...

It's a simple desert scene: cacti, red dirt, yawning blue sky. The brushwork is unschooled, even naive. Surrealism may be a distant influence. The painting would be of little interest, if not for the ...