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About the artist

Rick Beerhorst:
I do music regardless of profit

I think of my music as a side line to my visual art. I ne-
ver figured out a way to make much money doing mu-
sic but it feels more like something I just do for the love
of it regardless of profit. Sometimes I am trying to tell
someone something and the words are just not enough.
There are times when you need words together with a
melody and a rhythm to get across what you are feeling
inside. When I write songs I often don‘t really know what
they mean until one day much later when I have been
singing the song for a while and then something hits me
like, „oh that kind of makes sense there“ I also think that,
much like painting, with making music you are tuning
into something that needs to come into the world and I
just happen to be the one to make that happen. In some
sense I feel a responsibility to give birth to these songs
and share them with the world. I also really like the col-
laborative aspect of music projects that bring together
friends to work together.

It can be a lot of fun making music together with friends
that become even better friends in the process.

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A consistent narrative element is my desire to
link the ordinary to the mystical.

My influences include Early American limners,
the art of the Middle Ages, as well as religious
icons. The faces in many of these portraits are
partially obscured; this hide and seek refers to
how revelation always comes to us incomplete
in bits and pieces. In this way painting also be-
comes a form of inquiry into the hidden myste-
ries of life. Brenda and Rick

If you are interested in following along with my spiritual as well as opening up the creative pro-
artist journey you will want to visit me at my cess where artistic vision and creativity blooms.
website www.studiobeerhorst.com. It is here I absolutely love the community I have come to
that I have a sampling of my various kinds of know online for the way they have broadened
work as well as my resume and art blog. I update my understanding of what it means to be a lover
my blog every day Monday through Friday with of art and culture in all the far flung places bey-
posts that focus on knitting the ordinary to the ond my own city and neighborhood.

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