Robert Spellman
Since 1993 Spellman has been teaching painting, drawing and watercolor both privately and at Naropa University in Boulder , Colorado , where he is currently chairman of the visual arts

department. Teaching requires repeated examination of his life as an artist. This has been edifying: a greater sense of purpose is emerging. In 1996 painter Joan Anderson and Spellman co-founded Mountain Water, an artists' retreat in rural southern Colorado where we continue to explore the interface of artistic disciplines and meditation. Spellman believes that the artistic forms that evolve over centuries contain the wisdom of a culture. When these essential forms are learned and embodied, their infinite reconfiguration provides up-to-date richness, clarity and guidance for oneself and others on the most profound levels.