Ted’s paintings have a subtlety, beauty, and a power that are overwhelming. Years of work and perseverance have connected his spirit, inner intuition, his soul to the physical craft of painting. He has manifested for us, in the material world, to see and to ponder the connection between the Spirit, the Soul and the Body. For myself, I feel that he can truly be called a Messenger of the Spirit, one who has reached the summit of the Cosmic Mountain. His horizons have expanded—for the higher one moves spiritually, the more vision one gains. I believe that his path to the summit has been one of intuition and again perseverance … moving from one guidepost to the next, while always keeping the goal before him.

In Ted’s work, I see a quality and a feeling. That quality is of the celestial and the terrestrial, the spiritual and the passion of life (sexuality and earthiness) being one, and yet not losing their individuality. As the alchemists called it, the reconciliation of the opposites, the Conjunction. I think that this has been his work for as long as I can remember, in the more realistic paintings and in the abstract paintings. Wholeness, stillness, movement, dynamic balance … these are the things that I see visually and inwardly when I look at his drawings and paintings.