John Hyatt: My Brush with Angels
Torrance City Council Mayor Patrick J. Furey Heidi Ann Ashcraft Gene Barnett Tim Goodrich Geoff Rizzo Kurt Weideman
Rebecca Poirier, City Clerk Dana Cortez, City Treasurer LeRoy J. Jackson, City Manager Mary Giordano, Assistant City Manager John R. Jones, Community Services Director
Cultural Arts Commission Lynn Frangos, Chair Anil Muhammed, Vice-Chair Lynda Bunting Ed Candioty Dale A. Korman Gerry Rische Greg Taylor Cultural Services Division Eve Rappoport, Manager Carl Kaemerle, Senior Supervisor Debbie Collins, Secretary Torrance Art Museum Max Presneill, Museum Director/Curator Lisa Desmidt, Assistant Curator/Event Coordinator Chris Reynolds, Assistant Curator Natasia Gascon, Volunteer Coordinator
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John Hyatt: My Brush with Angels march 28th- may 14th, 2015
It has been a heck of a year. Fighting throat cancer should have been a miserable struggle but instead I just kept painting and these works are documents from that adventure. The journey has been rich in experience. It took me to dark places where your light can either shine or expunge itself. I have fought dragons wearing lightweight armour made of mirrors. I have drunk from the chalice of eternal life in lands where marvelous and strange creatures rule. I have followed mesmeric melodies across the valley where clouds hang in the tails of wild blue horses. I have seen colours that I did not know existed and been rewarded with a new voice that speaks only Truth. I reached the silent place where creation roars. Here, I give you a map of the waterways to the Centre of the Earth and back. Switch off your cell phones because, here, you are beyond time and space. No-one can reach you. No-one is watching you. History will not record your passing. You are present solely to enjoy the rhythms of my brush with Angels. John Hyatt, January 2015
John Hyatt The Music Lesson 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt Woman and a Meteorite 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
Next Page: John Hyatt The Sunset (Detail) 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
Next Page: John Hyatt Silver Birch 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt Storm Valley (Detail) 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt The Festival 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt Equinox 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt The Lion Pool 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt Dotty 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt Bowl of Flowers 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt Between the Worlds 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist
John Hyatt The Condition (detail) 2014 Oils 39.4 x 39.4 inches Courtesy of the Artist