Liberators: Paul Davids

Lightning at Courthouse by Paul Davids, 2000

My friend Paul Davids, besides being a successful film producer / writer / director, and a talented amateur magician, is also a wonderful artist. Lightning at Courthouse was painted in 2000. Everyone always gets their own thoughts and feelings from a painting, of course. With this one, I love in particular Paul's use of vibrant colours to bring out the intensity of the moment, which for me evokes the memory a drive through Northern New Mexico in 2004 with my brother Jim, and the thunderstorm that struck as if hurled from Zeus himself as we drove through the mountains and down into the plains near Cimarron.

Paul Kimball

Liberators: Alexandra Jicol, "Muse In Torment RDHB"

Muse In Torment RDHB

"Ask yourself what one would be without passion, without art and artists, without those who are enough "crazy" to keep believing that there's much, much more to feel, to love, to express, to share, to embrace." - Alexandra Jicol

I'm drawn to the work of artists such as Alexandra Jicol, for whom the expression of their passions is a fundamental part of the process of creation, because art without passion is form without substance. It doesn't liberate the spirit, or the imagination; it imprisons them.

Paul Kimball

Liberators: Stephanie Steele, "The Truth"

"The Truth", by Stephanie Steele.

Paul Kimball