Richard Banh: his art

Centered, With Exquisite Detail

an artist,

a painter,

a lover of pastels,

as he talks and shows me his work,

the incipient artist within me

starts to see what his eye sees,

what his soul knows,

what transcendence his fingers and wholeness

seek to hold within the painting:

two dimensions open into three,

the moment held so that the present

reaches toward the past and the future,

plummets and soars at the same time,

we can live life as if watching a movie,

where individual scenes are subordinate to the story,

moments flash by, impermanent as melting ice,

Richard Banh holds moments

and centers us with the exquisite detail

of light playing upon a landscape,

of a still life, an animal, a portrait,

holding eternity in the moment

loved, seen, understood,

expressed and held

as the artist within him joys

in the making and in the result

of what his talent and effort bring forth,

Richard seeks to hold moment after moment

as he works to help them reach toward permanence.

Richard (Nguyen) Self-Portrait
RichardBanh.com

by Henry H. Walker

November 16, ‘20