Author: John R. Kemp

Tradition redefined

John Darling Haynes and the Southern landscape by John R. Kemp Like alchemists, artists use canvas and palette to create imagined or real images of the world, its beauty, drama or the play of light upon the land. Others paint…

Reflets et échos de la louisiane

by JOHN R. KEMP Photography is about light, imagination and shared memories. Joyce Linde’s black-and-white photographs resonate with the rhythms of life and light in south Louisiana. Linde’s dark, brooding, reflected images are like shadowy memories that flash through the…

Art has a prayer at this abbey near Covington

As the sun set, a haunting, ancient melody drifted across the small wooded pond and settled among the dark oaks as a procession of black-robed monks performed evening vespers. The songs and chants are almost as old as recorded time,…