Cloudscapes PAINTINGS BY THOM BUTTNER
 
AT WHAT POINT DID WE STOP LOOKING AT CLOUDS? As a child I THOUGHT If I could get high enough I could lay in that soft cotton and ride ALOFT WITHOUT A CARE, AND WHO AMONG US DID NOT WATCH CLOUDS AND imagine those billowing shapes to be all manner of creatures great and small. CLOUDS STILL EVOKE SOMETHING PASSIONATE IN ME, IT’S HARD TO PUT MY FINGER ON IT. THE essence of these PAINTINGS ARE OF LOFTY DREAMS AND the SPIRIT UNFETTERED.