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by Nick Payne
$37.50
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Challenge your brain with a jigsaw puzzle designed by an independent artist! Our puzzles are made from premium 0.2" thick paper stock and include a semi-gloss coating on the top surface to make the image pop. Puzzles are available in two different sizes, and each puzzle includes a puzzle box with the artwork printed on the top for safe storage when you're not puzzling. The puzzle pieces are unique shapes.
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An appreciation for rocks has a long history. Historians, for example, say that at least two millenia back, the Chinese collected special rocks for... more
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Store the puzzle in the provided box at room temperature with low humidity.
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An appreciation for rocks has a long history. Historians, for example, say that at least two millenia back, the Chinese collected special rocks for aesthetic purposes. For Taoist monks certain stones represented the Tao. They used "scholar's stones" for contemplation and meditation in preparation for writing and painting.
Gongshi is the Chinese term for special stones that meet the above criteria and evoke something from the viewer. The transliterated word gong means "spirit" and shi equals "stone".
I share the Taoist appreciation for stones. Although beach rocks are too ordinary to be scholar's stones, I regard my paintings of rocks as representing the Creative Forces in the earth, and in that sense they are gongshi.
Nick Payne credits William Arthur Phillips, a gifted artist and teacher in Tacoma, WA, as an important early influence who developed Nick's art, and who inspired a career in art and education. Paintings posted on this site span four decades. Following graduation from the University of Washington, Nick spent two years in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Then he returned to the USA, and taught at a rural public school in northeastern Washington State. During this time he married. Several paintings from this time feature his children. After 20 years in the classroom, he returned to western WA and served as a principal for 13 years in the Bellingham and Ferndale school districts. Through most of his career in education, Nick�s parallel career...
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