When the fog rolls in along Moonstone Drive it would be easy to mistake the aged wooden planks of Art Van Ryn's
studio/home for a ship run-aground. In the sunny light of day it is a ship of dreams set to launch.
Di Vinci, who after "retiring" a quarter century ago crafted this fortress of aptitude with his own hands? When he is not drawing his weekly cartoon for the Cambrian,
painting
Even the visitors to Art's studio become art exhibits themselves!
with the "Wednesday Irregulars" of the Allied Arts Association, or reading dramatis personae for the Pewter Plough, he is known to be sputtering around the Village in the
rolling sculpture of his self-styled sports car or puttering in his private hangar dubbed "Crash & Burn Airways" tinkering away on his ultra-light aeroplane.
The Master "holds court" Saturdays & Sundays "from Noon until bored."
Visitors fortunate enough to gain entrance to the creative hub of Art's world can pour through dozens of local
plein air works, hundreds of pen & watercolor sketches made on location around the globe and many, many more formally presented pieces framed and on display.
You can enjoy more of Art's work right here at EMBARC.ORG, but the whimsical genius behind all the
wonderment won't sit still for too long. He's got another idea for a hemi-powered wheel chair... -- Sir Edmund Dantes
"The Manifold Joys of Sex" - Get it? It is an old Ford engine manifold.
