Paintings are wonderful, they create illusions and magic. They become real things and real places, created with only a handfull of pigment and medium, a thin piece of cloth and not enough wood to start a fire. Anyone with these materials, can create worlds, invent emotions, document there lives and make something new and uniquc unto them- selves. Paintings are vacations that we take over and over again, a good painting will reveal something new, every time we look at them.

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The Art of CharlesA. Gadeken

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My Biography



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Charles A. Gadeken 415-824-7348charlie@burningart.com