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Installation of Paul Morstad and Frans Lotz exhibitions Nov / Dec 2025

“Natura Morandi”, 2024, watercolour on paper, 22 × 30 inches paper size. ENQUIRE Artist note: Giorgio Morandi’s muted palette, subtle glory of the banal, everyday object, and harmonic colour scheme may have come from his experiences in WWI, whic

“Twilight Phenomena (Werner Herzog)”, 2025, watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 inches paper size. SOLD. Artist note: The South Pacific island group of Vanuatu is home to the John Frum cargo cult. There on the island of Tanna the members of this religio

“Miss Perfumado (Cesária Évora)” watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 inches paper size. ENQUIRE Artist note: If there was a perfume that could lure octopuses from the sea I believe it would have been worn by Cesária Évora. Her music of longing is so

Installation of Paul Morstad and Frans Lotz exhibitions Nov / Dec 2025.

“North of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)”, 2023, watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 inches paper size. ENQUIRE Artist note: From the bleachers of a baseball stadium, with the crack of a bat from a double to centre field, Haruki Murakam

“No More Blues (João and Astrid Gilberto)”, 2025, watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 inches paper size. ENQUIRE Artist note: In the northern mining town of Diamantina, Brazil, in a ceramic tiled chamber, from the guitar of Joao Gilberto, Bossa Nova w

“Fate is a Hunter”, 2025, watercolour on paper, 22 × 30 inches paper size. ENQUIRE Artist note: Le Petit Prince was a powerful book for me when I was young as was the 1970s film adaptation starring Gene Wilder. The tiny Asteroid, B-612, that car

Installation of Paul Morstad and Frans Lotz exhibitions Nov / Dec 2025.

“Yellow Tiger Swallow-Tail”, 2023, watercolour on paper, 30 x 41.5 inches paper size, 36.5 × 47.5 inches framed. ENQUIRE Artist note: During a trip to the Sicilian archipelago of the Aeolian islands I viewed from a ferry the volcanic island of

“Santorini Swim Club”, 2023, watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 inches paper size. SOLD. Artist note: Since swim club in high school, from growing up beside lakes, to exploring the cold, salty water of the Salish Sea, swimming has been an inspiration t

“Furniture Music (Erik Satie)”, 2025, watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 inches paper size. SOLD. Artist note: Known by his teachers as the laziest of pianists, Erik Satie referred to his compositions as Furniture Music, the predecessor of what we know

“Submersible for the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Choir”, 2025, watercolour on paper, 30 x 41.5 inches paper size, 36.5 × 47.5 inches framed. ENQUIRE Artist note: Deep in the Cold War, while travelling in the mountains of Bulgari

Installation of Paul Morstad and Frans Lotz exhibitions Nov / Dec 2025.

“You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Elizabeth Cotten)”, 2025, watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 inches paper size. ENQUIRE Artist note: Elizabeth Cotten taught herself to play her brother’s banjo when she was about 8 years old. Being left handed an

“Furniture Music II (Clara Schumann Love Triangle)”, 2025, watercolour on paper, 10.5 × 7 inches paper size, 18 x 13.5 inches framed. SOLD. Artist note: During her life, Clara Schumann was the most in demand pianist in Europe as well as a composer

“Swim Meet 22022022”, diptych, watercolour on paper, 30 x 44 inches, 38 x 52 inches framed. ENQUIRE

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