Missing Ted Denyer
This month marks 15 years since my dear friend Ted Denyer left this planet. I miss him a lot, but I'm also glad he did not have to see the dismal condition of the world today. He would have been bewildered and sad. Ted was a painter dedicated to making visible the invisible. I'm extremely pleased to see his life's work catalogued on this fine website: http://teddenyerart.com/ , a creation of his son-in-law Efrem Marder and grandson Ben Marder . I hope you'll check out the evolution of his paintings, and take 16 minutes to watch a video documentary that my wife Wendy and I produced about him in 1996. As I began to write here, I realized the futility of attempting to capture the profound impact one human being can have on another. Every two weeks for ten years, Ted and I had dinner together in a cozy little loft room that overlooked his painting studio in his home in Mount Tremper, NY. I grew from my forties into my fifties, he from his seventies into his late eighties....