
TAG Newsletter October 2020
Hello TAG Members!
Happy Fall, Happy Halloween!
I hope everyone is well and staying safe and not letting all
the crazy virus and political stuff get you down. Our president
Joan Monroe needs our help! Please contact her (artbyjoan@gmail.com)
if you have not picked up your work from our last show.
She would like to use her hallway again.
Tha High Museum is open! You can go online and purchase
tickets for a timed visit. The Booth Museum is open as well.
They are also doing timed visits. So now we have two museums
available for an in person art fix.
For a virtual visit you can go to thebreman.org to check out photos
of jazz greats by Herb Snitzer. It's a little hard to navigate but if
you click on the circles over the photos it will bring the photo up so you
can see it. The show includes photos of Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis
Nina Simone and others.
Joan sent me a link for virtual classes from Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
They look like fun! They have different classes, some with
Halloween themes like mask making, others not so much, like the textural
collage classes. Prices vary, Doodle Hour is free! They are based out of
Los Angeles so the supplies delivery won't apply.
TAG had an in-person meeting in September. We met outside, socially
distant and wore masks too. It was an extended show and tell. It was
great seeing everyone who could make it to the meeting. Les Scarborough
is having health problems, cross your fingers, pray, have a good thought
that he feels better soon.
Hang in there, make art! This won't last forever even if it seems like
it sometimes.
Quill Griffith



Bio
Quill Griffith studied painting and printmaking in Mexico, after graduating from Auburn University with a BFA in Visual Design in 1969. In Mexico, Quill received a Master of Fine Arts in 1972 from the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende.
After working in advertising in Birmingham, he moved to Atlanta, eventually becoming a computer programmer. For years he programmed computers by day and painted at night. After retiring in 2000, he decided it was time to devote his full energy to painting.
Jackson Pollock has been the major influence on his work. Additional influences include Duchamp, Dali, Max Ernst, DeKooning and Rothko.
Artist's Statement
The automatism of surrealism and the ideas of Freud and Jung have played a significant role in the development of Quill's creative process. Each painting starts with color selection, and then proceeds intuitively with drips, splatters and random brush strokes.
Quill avoids intellectual involvement initially, allowing the paint to do what it wants. Certain images appear after the canvas builds up with overlaid colors and texture from multiple over paintings.
At this time begins the process of intellectual involvement, manipulating and enhancing certain images and eliminating others which do not work visually. The work process flows back and forth from unconscious to conscious manipulation of the image until the entire image is coherent.
At this stage he knows that the work is "finished", or at a stopping point. One more brush stroke and the process must start all over.