Teapot with String 2020

This is Scott Fraser's painting of a Teapot with String. There's something so satisfying about the simplicity and stillness of this painting! A gleaming metal teapot sits patiently on a wooden shelf, its surface reflecting a little world, tied by a string to a push pin. I can imagine Fraser, setting up this intimate tableau, arranging the objects just so, and then embarking on this careful, deliberate act of painting. It's like a form of meditation, isn't it? To really see an object, to translate its essence onto canvas with such precision. It's not just about capturing what's there, but what it *feels* like to be there, in that quiet moment. Fraser invites us to slow down, to really look. And isn't that what painting is all about? Offering us a new way of seeing, a new way of experiencing the world. A lot of realism painters do this, like Antonio Lopez Garcia who is a huge inspiration to me. Their work is so beautiful!