tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13900387415589491362024-02-19T02:06:50.429-08:00NOT ENTIRELY VISIBLENothing in life is entirely visible, least of all in art.
Writing this art blog is an attempt to strike a match to orient myself in a world which grows so illegible.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-4309548988376229042014-11-03T09:47:00.000-08:002014-11-03T20:36:43.953-08:00<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I created work for my October-November show currently hanging at the Zolikoffer Gallery in White River Junction, VT this spring and summer, I <span style="font-size: large;">thought</span> a lot about consistency again. This is a controversial subject in the art world -- often between gallery owners and the artists. The Gallery folk want to see a consistent style, palette, <i>whatever</i>, and be assured that the same type of work they signed on for with the artist will continue to come in from the artist. Gallery owners are looking for a common thread running through all of your work that holds it together, and makes it recognizable to their clients from one year to the next. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But we</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> artists hear the word and feel a
cold-sweat break out. We understand the
concept, and even see the validity of the gallery owner's viewpoint, but </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">does it mean we don’t have any latitude to experiment and evolve? To my mind, real consistency can become a straightjacket to creativity. I remember how my friend Nancy Gerlach said, after leaving her successful pastel landscape stage and entering into the study of abstract printmaking in her 70's, that she just wasn't "THERE" anymore -- where the traditional landscapes had come from. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I know some painters, such as my friend Henry Isaacs, maintain a
very consistent and recognizable body of work throughout their careers. Others grow as
their visions change, either rather abruptly and dramatically as Eric
Aho did, moving from a realistic and simple, striking impressionism to his current expressive abstractions which are far more cluttered and busy.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> What I have settled on, in an effort to be consistent but </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">also to evolve, is to utilize the same subject matter for periods at a time. </span>By focusing upon only two subjects in the past few years, I did not become at all bored, but rather found that that the more time I
spend painting the intricacies of forsythia and seascapes, the more I began to see that there is an infinite
variety in the nuances of any subject. I have done this before: early on in my serious painting career, I spent years on oversized up close in your </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">face flowers, mostly roses and iris. I</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">did the same thing with horses -- in my past are a LOT of paintings of wildly flowing manes and horses' eyes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> Constable went
from painting a realistic landscape to an expressive one.<b> </b>There are a
few whose work underwent quite dramatic change over a short period of
time, such as </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Philip Guston who
turned away from abstraction towards a narrative representation,
combining a cartoon style with </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">the luscious brushwork of his abstract
paintings. I remember the shock of seeing this new body of work, and how
long it took for viewers to accept it. I can imagine him just being
tired of making those beautiful paintings, and wanting to shake things
up.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vZ87DXhbLS2Fazon00vB_w91nOPNzehfoewov711fIgtZv-1GDilbbYuQBeF8oCxgF84zkTp4qPm86nJ4TmtdlcM01Uws2Yazn_dn4aBEn1PYLaOAZt_6x8UpeEQJCqs7cSau9C7U_M/s1600/10421342_10205024552924435_5206729103647810346_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For this show, "Old Friends, New Work" I am showing mostly my new seascapes, or rather my four-piece series of </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the place where the wave spill meets the sand on a beach, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the seafoam, which I call " ... where the dark, wet sand turns grey" One of them sold at the show, which is kind of too bad, because they make the most impact as a group. But that gets rather pricey. This is truly where my heart is right now, I guess you could call that spot at the water's edge my muse.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-size: large;">This body of work upon which I have
concentrated most</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> heavily for the past five years are my
seascapes.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not only because that is what
the gallery in Nantucket which handles my work prefers,
but also because, I am at my
best physically and spiritually when I am at the
edge of the sea. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These paintings are the result
of inspiration from the dynamic interactions between light, color
and movement </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">found on the sand by
the sea ... <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the constant ebb and flow of the tides, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the changing patterns of wind
and surf, the</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">sand just as it meets the
water.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is the raw material from
which I try to move beyond</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-size: large;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the particular into the eternal,
suggesting the transient life of the waves within the larger permanence of nature -- and </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">our
brief passage through it.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I must have taken 50 photos of it this summer both in Nantucket and in LBI. Here are two examples of this painterly obsession.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-size: large;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span>
<br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdIXlO6NFOyzIC9fdoa0nSUWYC9AoD5FjY-zBc9jAe7jJ8cl9ZCmkLY7SyfbT2nNdTdj1-a4GO0Yf5XICWBtgATtKK5ZZ_PlHrW7Hv3Z0pGN7mLcPjNzDFNMi_taWMb2HLY21XHAXXsM/s1600/10496960_10204565121958948_6570179435401568996_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdIXlO6NFOyzIC9fdoa0nSUWYC9AoD5FjY-zBc9jAe7jJ8cl9ZCmkLY7SyfbT2nNdTdj1-a4GO0Yf5XICWBtgATtKK5ZZ_PlHrW7Hv3Z0pGN7mLcPjNzDFNMi_taWMb2HLY21XHAXXsM/s1600/10496960_10204565121958948_6570179435401568996_o.jpg" height="320" width="301" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>12 x 12 oil on canvas</i></td></tr>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vZ87DXhbLS2Fazon00vB_w91nOPNzehfoewov711fIgtZv-1GDilbbYuQBeF8oCxgF84zkTp4qPm86nJ4TmtdlcM01Uws2Yazn_dn4aBEn1PYLaOAZt_6x8UpeEQJCqs7cSau9C7U_M/s1600/10421342_10205024552924435_5206729103647810346_n.jpg" height="316" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /><br />
<br /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">12 x 12 oil on canvas</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As well as seascapes, I am also
drawn to the barns and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>outbuildings of
Vermont's vanishing farms for subject matter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like seafoam, the barns have begun their
journey into nothingness. I paint the spindrift, the waves, and the
seafoam because it is so ephemeral and heart-breakingly beautiful. I paint the
far more representational barns </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">because their simple dignity, in the face of</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> their diminished value, speaks to
me of emptiness and sadness, abandonment in the face of progress, and the hard work of long ago lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The barn paintings are my
efforts to honor and save the aged architecture surrounding me here in Vermont – I love </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">the
haunting imperfect lines of the
buildings, the wonderful textural faded paint and rusted roofing, the
lack of symmetry of windows and doorways, and the memories memories of
lives lived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Several years ago I also discovered the
joy of painting forsythia, which offers a wondrous way to dive into pure </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">painterly joy; several of the barn paintings in the show incorporate these yellow
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The one on the top is my most recent barn, titled "Dusty With September Sun."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Several other barns are in this show -- which will be up until November 19.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You can see some barns in the photo below from the opening of the show on the right, next to two horizontal paintings done by the other woman in the joint show, Judith Pettingell who lives in the area. Judith and I were classmates at Skidmore College, and connected these many years later when I moved here in 1997. Hence the name of the show -- "Old Friends, New Work." Judith and I met in </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the Hathorn Studio classrooms, where we learned some basics from the same art professors.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another burgeoning interest for me right now are trees catching the sunlight. I had hoped to make this very large painting, below, the focal point of the show. However, I exhibited it at the Morrill Homestead 4th of July show, priced it high so it would not sell -- and some woman from Connecticut bought it and whisked it away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Right now I am working on a very difficult commission for a man from Boston who wants a painting of his Vermont house pond, and I am also about to complete another tree painting in the above mode, done ALMOST <i>alla prima</i>! It is truly wonderful when that happens, when it all comes together so fast....I only wish the commission was going that way. But I think I made a breakthrough today!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, is my work consistent? Not really probably. It is in subject groupings, and I handle paint similarly in all, but I am not at all sure it shows much commonality. So be it.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-84938544959429572542014-05-08T20:10:00.000-07:002014-05-08T20:41:37.344-07:00SZUSZI<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Mecsek's Szuszi of Strafford)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Szuszi is gone</span></i>. The house
feels empty, our other dog is a wreck, and our hearts are heavy with loss as we
learn to live without her. In the end stages of kidney disease, and having lost
10 lbs (a third of her weight) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Szuszi
was soon going to suffer some pretty terrible consequences from this illness.
We decided to let our good vet, Kim Jones, put her to rest on Monday while she
was still pain-free, and relatively happy and content. We have known she was
ill for quite a while; changes in diet and medications gave us another good
year with our little sheepdog, but always tinged with the sad reality that she
could not recover from her kidney disease. Below is a photo of our girl the night before we put her down. Human tears were flowing<i>, but she, unaware that she was so sick, was fine.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We brought her home from the NJ breeder just about 13 years
ago, stopping off in Wilton, CT to show the new puppy to our 7-month old
grandson Aidan. Here, right, he is with her when he was about a year old, and she is 6 months.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Puppy Szuszi in the daisies.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Aidan and a very wet and scruffy looking Szuszi, just starting to cord.</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For many years, Aidan and Szuszi were best buddies, and I was
brought to tears when I saw him say goodbye to her last New Year’s, knowing he
would probably never see her again. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was one of the first words Aidan said …”Zyooozee”
and their bond was very special.</span> But as dogs do, she grew old .... and he became a teen-ager last year he moved with his family to California. She looked for them always, and hoped every car that drove up was full of her people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Szuszi sashayed into our lives in 2001 and turned the life of
our older dog, Bradford, upside down. First of all, for the first time, he
discovered he was a boy, so, not only was she spayed, but because of his
amorous and unwanted attentions to little Szuszi, he too had to get “fixed” --
although John insisted he was not broken! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here are the two of them in our fields in October, Braddy very regal, Szuszi still a matted, happy puff ball.</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She stole all of Braddy’s toys, tried
to eat his food, insisted she was the prettiest one, and demanded the Alpha dog
position in the house. Unlike her older companion, who was beautifully
resplendent with long Rasta cords, Szuszi had Tina Turner hair that just wisped
wildy about her, matting constantly, and for the first six years of her life,
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Puppy Szuszi trying to get a toy away from her big brother Bradford.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Eventually, after Bradford was gone, Szuszi began to grow her Rasta curls, and we had another beautiful, corded Puli.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And then Sami arrived, and turned the tables around ... he stole her toys, and her food, and wanted to be the boss. She resisted. They had a love-hate relationship, but were constant companions.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Szusi, before she corded, with the new puppy we named Sami in 2007</i></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She was a friend, and protector of all four of “her”
children, as well as of their parents, and nothing made her happier than when
one of more of them would come to visit. She snuggled with them on couches and
in beds, and barked at them when they went in the pond. Noisily chasing after
them down the sledding hills or out into the wildflower fields, she worked hard
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to make sure they came back to her herd
of humans, where she could keep her eye on them, as fast as possible. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Reese grandkids and Szuszi and Sami.</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Corded or not, young or old, she was always a Puli. Wiry and
active under all that hair, the Puli has been likened to a bouncing spring.
Happy and playful well into their teens, with boundless energy and insatiable
curiosity, they bustle about with light-footed agility, checking out every new
sight and sound -- and expressing an opinion about it.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Come back! Come back!"</span></i> <i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mike and Lily!</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Acrobatic Pulis are superb athletes, with quick reflexes who
can turn on a dime and clear a six-foot fence from a standstill. In Hungary
they have been herding sheep for centuries, not with the finesse of a Border
Collie, but they get the job done noisily and menacingly. And with keen
eyesight, acute hearing, and an innate suspicion of strangers, Pulis are also
serious about their responsibilities as a watchdog. They will rush up to a
stranger to check him out, and if necessary, are willing to back up suspicions
with loud warning barking, from rich in their DNA. But then they jump up and
lick the 99% who pass the test.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Szuszi with her cordsicles.</span></i></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Szuszi loved her home; she was not very fond of traveling.
Cars made her feel a bit rocky, and new places made her nervous until she was
shown which bed she could sleep on, which couch she could jump on, and where
her food bowl was. She did like to visit her kids, although our grand dog Mack
made her a little worried. She hated vegetables, unexplained noises, and
squirrels, birds, cats or other interlopers on her land. She was uncomfortable
with other children, not hers, who played too roughly with her and pulled her
hair, but she always tolerated them kindly. Szuszi did not like baths, hair
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Somewhere there are frogs</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Szuszi lived the good life here in Vermont. She adored
having the freedom a doggy door offered her, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so she could be outside, patrolling her
fields, casing the pond, smelling the flowers, chasing geese away from the pond, and she especially liked to “help”
John and me in the yard …. busily carting off briars and brambles, pruning bits, plant
clippings, rocks, even logs from delivered fireplace wood. She carted our clean socks and underwear to "decorate" the living room, and unmade our bed when we were away.She leapt wildly and
noisily into the snow John shoveled, and ran in front of sleds and tractors; she
chased hockey pucks all over the pond, apples being picked, and croquet balls
being hit. She loved cocktail hour and the possibility of a dropped bit of cheese or a peanut, and her favorite things to eat were chicken livers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On hot days, she was known to
take a quick dip in the pond, although mostly she patrolled the edges, looking
for frogs.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>So much to do, so much to smell.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Couch Potatoes. This was always her perch, and we had to replace several pillows as a result. </span></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">New Years Eve, 2013.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And the one place she <u>liked</u> to travel to was to Lake George to be with Maddy and Jerry. But she didn't like the motor boat.....</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> She is greatly missed by John, Sami and me. The most loving of girls, she was as a good a doggy as there is. And although they
had a love-hate relationship, Sooz and Sam were companions, and he is not
handling her loss any better than we are, spending the past three days under
his chair, the bed, or the car, and crying a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The house is quiet, lonely, and empty without
her, <i>as are we. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-65544324896956125562014-04-27T18:17:00.002-07:002014-04-27T18:17:35.566-07:00It's Not Like Riding a Bike<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When you get back in the studio again after a too-long hiatus, painting doesn't happen easily. Rediscovering myself as an painter after many months has been hard -- it is not like riding a bike or a horse after many years, because it is not totally instinctive or rote. Although the rituals of working in the studio and the basic skills are always there, they need to be encouraged back to the forefront. And there must be inspiration, a muse if you will. But I think the inspiration and excitement are coming back, in that once again I have some ideas, and I WANT to paint.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I decided that in order to free myself up, I really needed to work large for a time. So </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I started work on a very large piece, almost 5 feet high. I am painting over an old abstract </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">canvas I did back in the 80's which never worked for me, and which is partially overlayed with tissue paper, to provide texture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At first it was a disaster. Nothing came together. The first </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">couple of forays into the studio left me feeling as if I was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">just wasting a lot of time and paint. Because of its size, I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">found I was working the canvas in quarters, and not really "feeling it" as a whole. I worked it upside down for a time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> t</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">o keep it from becoming too representational.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I had started out doing another forsythia to combat the three feet of snow around my house, claiming every view from the windows, but my heart was not in it, and what I </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">ended up with just sort of evolved by playing with the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">paint. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think about California a lot with half my family now living there, and somehow this piece speaks to that emotional </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">connection. It is now in the "take it down from the studio </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and look at it for a week" stage, but I think it is finished. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is tentatively titled </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <i>" Trees make a long shadow and a light sound"</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And now, a few small winter scenes to finish, and onward to abstracted seascapes for the Nantucket gallery.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-1405014302127768542014-02-23T15:14:00.000-08:002014-02-28T13:21:39.374-08:00Evolving, I Hope<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img src="webkit-fake-url://BF0B5B23-D0E3-4E6B-956B-C65CA9E40CCA/imagejpeg" /><span style="font-size: large;">Several readers -- I guess I have a few-- have asked why I do not post blogs anymore.</span> <img src="webkit-fake-url://DDA2591C-92E2-4681-870F-6882A4B5FF9A/imagejpeg" /><span style="font-size: large;">No quick answer to that. It has been a hard year for me, heath-wise, and I kind of shuttered the windows and hunkered down. Nothing fatal, but hard nonetheless. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A bit more than a year ago I sought help from an orthopedist and a rheumatologist at Dartmouth for a lot of unexplained flu-like pain I was having, and my total exhaustion. Many tests and conversations later, and I was diagnosed with arthritis of the hands, feet and knees -- which I already knew-- bursitis of the hips and knees, and get this, fibromyalgia. Once they told me that, and I googled what it was, a lot of things made sens ... I looked up the symptoms and saw this:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chronic muscle pain, muscle spasms, or tightness, a feeling of having the flu</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pain in a number of diagnosed pressure points during flareups, or chronically.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A low tolerance for pain (in other words, you feel feel pain more than most people do.)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moderate or severe fatigue and decreased energy</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Insomnia or waking up feeling just as tired as when you went to sleep</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stiffness upon waking or after staying in one position for too long</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Difficulty remembering, concentrating, and performing simple mental tasks ("fibro fog")</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sensitivity to one or more of the following: odors, noise, bright lights, medications, certain foods, and heat and cold</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Feeling anxious or depressed</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Numbness or tingling in the face, arms, hands, legs, or feet</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Irritable bowel syndrome symptom, irritable bladder </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tension or migraine headaches</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jaw and facial tenderness </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reduced tolerance for exercise and muscle pain after exercise</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A feeling of swelling (without actual swelling) in the hands and feet</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can totally relate to all but a few of these things. I felt so vindicated, so much less "crazy." My pain, tiredness, sensitivities, need for anxiety medication all had a reason! BUT -- what to do about it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The normal course of action is for the doc to prescribe heavy duty pain killers for the arthritis, bursitis and fibro. Because I am on Coumadin, that was not an option. All I can take is Tylenol. So I searched for for more holistic things I could do. First thing I kept reading these admonitions----GIVE UP GLUTEN, GIVE UP ASPARTAME, GIVE UP PROCESSED FOODS, and if you eat meat, eat only pasture fed and free range and organic, local if possible. </span> <span style="font-size: large;">So I did all of that, (although I was already eating very little processed food or supermarket meat or chicken) and within a few weeks, the flu like symptoms went away, and the tiredness gradually improved. It was like a miracle. I had been a Diet Coke addict, drinking at least one a day. After I quit, a month or two later I drank a half of one, and whammo, pain was back. For me anyway, it is a lethal thing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then I also started having monthly massages, another thing that really helps, especially when in a flare.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Life began to improve, slowly. By summertime, my mood was improving as well as my health. Time at the beach always helps me.I think for the first time in my life, I had been depressed. I am still unhappy over the state of my health, but when I look around and see what others are going through, I feel very fortunate. Four friends are fighting cancer right now, and I cannot compare my problems to theirs. However, the inevitable -- at my age (72)-- of the now constant stream of funerals and illnesses of loved ones is taking its toll, and the Effexor is not keeping me on an even keel. I feel so sad so often because of the loss and/or pain of my friends, and my fear of losing them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The end result is that I have not been painting. I have not done <i>anything</i> all year except seeing family and friends, a little gardening, a lot of work writing for the book for my Skidmore 50th reunion, and taking on an obsession to find homes for rescue dogs. I did not even read as much as I normally do. This hiatus seems to be what I needed, but this month, I did finally get back in my studio. I need work for a local gallery, will need work for my Nantucket gallery come summer, and have a two-woman show with Skidmore classmate Judith Pettingell coming up in September. <i>I need some new work.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So far my efforts have been a disaster. Nothing is working. I wail "I cannot paint anymore!" But I think I just need to start <i>playing</i> in the studio, with no end result in sight, no aim, no goal, and see what happens. I am probably trying to paint last year's paintings with a this year's soul and outlook. I think I am transitioning. At least I hope that is what the problem is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I created work for the show last year, I <span style="font-size: large;">thought</span>
a lot about consistency again. This is a controversial subject in the
art world -- often between gallery owners and the artists. The Gallery
folk want to see a consistent style, palette, <i>whatever</i>, and be
assured that the same type of work they signed on for with the artist
will continue to come in from the artist. Gallery owners are looking for
a common thread running through all of your work that holds it
together, and makes it recognizable to their clients from one year to
the next. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But we</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> artists hear the word and feel a
cold-sweat break out. We understand the
concept, and even see the validity of the gallery owner's viewpoint, but </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">does
it mean we don’t have any latitude to experiment and evolve? To my
mind, real consistency can become a straight jacket to creativity. I
remember how my friend Nancy Gerlach said, after leaving her successful
pastel landscape stage and entering into the study of abstract
printmaking in her 70's, that she just wasn't THERE anymore -- where
the landscapes had come from. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I
know some painters, certainly the old masters, even the Impressionists, and my friends Michael Moore and Henry Isaacs, are able to maintain a
very consistent and recognizable body of work throughout their careers.
Others grow as
their visions change, either rather abruptly and dramatically as Eric
Aho did, moving from a realistic and simple, striking impressionism to
his current expressive abstractions which are far more cluttered and
busy. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> What I settled on for my show a year ago, in an effort to be consistent but also to evolve, and in an effort to present a cohesive show, was to utilize the same subject matter. </span>By
focusing on two subjects over the course of a few years, I did not become
bored at all, but rather found that that the more time I
spend painting forsythia and seascapes, the more I begin to see that
there is an infinite variety in the nuances of any subject. I have done this before: Early on
I did over sized up-close in-your-face flowers, mostly roses and iris. I</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">did the same thing with horses: in my past are a LOT of paintings of horses' eyes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Constable went
from painting a realistic landscape to an expressive one.<b> </b>There are a
few whose work underwent quite dramatic change over a short period of
time, such as Guston who
turned away from abstraction towards a narrative representation,
combining a cartoon style with the luscious brushwork of his abstract
paintings. I remember the shock of seeing this new body of work, and how
long it took for viewers to accept it. I never really did! But I can imagine him just being
tired of making those beautiful patchwork, painterly paintings, and wanting to shake things
up.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So maybe that is where I am heading once again, to change. I think the forsythias, being too realistic, are over for me. I have one started from months back that I will finish, but will start no more. But the seascapes, ah, they can evolve, and I think I can go there. Only time will tell. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span>After the show last year, in March almost a year ago, I wrote this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They have changed their protocol for openings at DHMC, wherein they only invite from their own very limited list, have a small reception, and then lead guests on tour of the work of four artists featured for the next few months. I was unaware of this and invited some friends, and am glad I did! I was also totally unaware that I was expected to talk about my art to the tours, but somehow I muddled through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We ended the evening with dinner across the street at Jesse's, with Andrea and Ed Doughtie, Jim Wilson and Margaret Parsons, liz Clark and Mary Vic Giersch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The forsythia series were very well received, and these seascapes, I think, garnered the most interest.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-41496157477761905512013-03-19T16:29:00.004-07:002013-03-20T07:14:05.235-07:00We Went to a Hanging<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We went to a hanging on Monday before the snow flew. <span style="font-size: large;">Actually John was </span>the hang<span style="font-size: large;">man</span>, minus black hood, wielding <span style="font-size: large;">tape measure and ruler</span>. I supervised, but he is the measurer, and mathematician. The hangees were my 21 paintings<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">now on display at Dartmouth Mary Hitchcock Rubin Gallery.</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It took several hours, because hanging on those track and slide systems, while nice because no tools are required, necessitate a lot of measuring and adjusting. Given the weather -- big snowstorm was on the horizon which is in full swing as I compose this -- people walking by were very receptive to the golden forsythias of spring, and the lush blues of the summer seascapes. Except one old man who walked by with his wife and grumbled "Too much yellow. Grump grump." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I <span style="font-size: large;">tried </span> to get photos of all the work going into the show </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">before it <span style="font-size: large;">wa</span>s hung. Here are a few <span style="font-size: large;">which I have not yet put into a blo<span style="font-size: large;">g</span></span>, which show the results of a long journey towards somewhat abstracted impressionism, or whatever you want to call it. (I dislike labels.)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Below <span style="font-size: large;">are </span> the two largest of the forsythia series. I posted </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">the second one sometime in the spring, but it was a bad photo. These are not bad, but the skies are not so turquoise at all, and the real paintings overall are lighter, brighter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">I was after a very loose and free look, using the forsythia fronds simply as a mechanism to hold the dabbed, layered, scraped, glazed and sprayed paint</span>. I would like <span style="font-size: large;">to take <span style="font-size: large;">myself</span> to another level, and learn to do encaustic work with the oils. A future challenge. </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">These two paintings are clear evidence of the <span style="font-size: large;">d</span>irection in which I am going with my work. I will be working on a number of these in the next months to take to the Nantucket <span style="font-size: large;">G</span>allery.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the rather cumbersome click and slide hanging system:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Meanwhile, I was <span style="font-size: large;">very happy </span>to get the show hung.</i> It has been a long haul<span style="font-size: large;">, and quite honestly,I was not sure I would be able to get enough new work created in time. But I did. </span>We celebrated with a late lunch at Molly's in Hanover, and then I came home to work on the piles of laundry I have not done <span style="font-size: large;">over</span> the past few weeks <span style="font-size: large;">(because </span>I have had no time to do it due to painting and Skidmore 50th Reunion book writing and organizing) --- lots of sheets and towe<span style="font-size: large;">ls </span>from visiting family,the dog sitter and us, a<span style="font-size: large;">nd about 3 loads of personal laundry. Also washed the dog-dingied white duck couch slipcover and cushion covers and got that back on. Next chores: a general uncluttering of the house which I have ignored lately, and a real clean up in my studio!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But first--- to enjoy the beautiful late snowfall we are having today. About 10 or 11 inches so far, with it still falling. Sadly, no grandchildren will be able to be here this weekend to play in i<span style="font-size: large;">t, or ski. They were here a few weeks ago and had a great time outside. We miss them all.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My living room/dining room space is filled with 21 paintings standing up against the furniture and on tables, <i>finally finished</i><span style="font-size: large;"> (last brush strokes this afternoon),</span> coated with temporary varnish, nicely framed (except for some with gallery wrapped, painted edges and those done on cradled clayboard which can be frameless<span style="font-size: large;">)</span> and ready to go! We will take them to DHMC either tomorrow or Tuesday, depending on the weather. I thin<span style="font-size: large;">k</span> this show is going to hang together very well, pardon the pun. The opening reception is 10 days away on M<span style="font-size: large;">a</span>rch 28. I hope it is well received. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I mentioned previously, t</span>he title, "Yellow to Blue: From <span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ere to There" references a number of things<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>... the yellow <span style="font-size: large;">is</span> the "here" -- 8 forsythia paintings, and the and the 12 blue pieces, are of the sea, and of the "there" -- Nantucket, MA and B<span style="font-size: large;">a</span>rnegat Light, NJ. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But it is more than that.</i> From here to there also speaks of the constant journey artists have as they evolve from one style, or one place in their vision,to another. You cannot stagnate in one style, one place. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I love the pure exploration of materials, the
excitement of new discovery: <i>process is everything.</i> Both in the field and the
studio, some of my work may be nonrepresentational then the next might be far
more representational. This is in evidence in my show, and is because in the past few years I have been <i>evolving</i>. I don't believe one genre is better than another, but
focus on whether the end result is solid and well</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> executed, and elicits genuine emotion
and connection with the viewer. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I </span>am finding that that the study of landscape
and seascape allows me to edge from reality into abstraction, without
losing a sense of time and place.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> However, I am definitely moving in my mind to a less representational style of painting, and wh<span style="font-size: large;">en</span> my hand catches up to my vision, I will have gotten to the THERE.</span></span>.. and the show at DHMC shows part of the journey. It is good to be still journeying, evolving, growing, at almost 72!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />“Yellow to Blue: From Here to There”<br />New Work by<br />Deborah Frankel Reese<br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center<br />Rubin Glass Hallway<br />One Medical Center Drive, Main Entrance<br />Lebanon, NH<br />March 19-May 30</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Opening Reception Thursday, March 28, 2013</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">5:15 tour of the work of four artists</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Any of you who are local, I would love to see you there<span style="font-size: large;"> on the 28th</span>. Otherwise take a look next time you are at DHMC. </span></span></span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-92210475910132627932013-03-02T08:51:00.000-08:002013-03-02T08:59:04.793-08:00My Blue Period<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Picasso is not the only one. These past two weeks I have moved from yellow (the forsythia) <span style="font-size: large;">i</span>nto the blue, full steam ahead. I have completed three of the seven seascapes needed, and am halfway into a fourth. I am working with skies in these, more than water, as sky is so often the focus when on the beach. And you can be insane with the colors, which is where my head is this very wintry monochromatic week!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span id="goog_191641090"> The one above has the colors slightly off, the <span style="font-size: large;">foreground</span> is much darker. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span id="goog_191641090">And another.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span id="goog_191641090">I hope to complete one more this size. These will be complemented by the large seascape I will bring back from the condo, and some of my Water's Edge series such as </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span id="goog_191641090"> </span>I <span style="font-size: large;">plan</span> to complete a few more of these before the show hanging on March 18.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am also working on a painting for the cover of my Skidmore 50th Reunion Yearbook which is supposed to evoke the old campus, the campus we knew. It is proving to be very difficult as there were really no iconic buildings or a green that shout out "Skidmore" from that era, and because all of the photos I have as references are black and white. I am trying..... I also have to take two pieces with me when I go to curate the alumni show at the Tan<span style="font-size: large;">g</span> Museum for Reunion in the middle of the month. And I have nothing new to take.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is making for some very busy days in the studio. Wish me luck..</span></span> .Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-58794863425995234122013-02-22T13:37:00.002-08:002013-02-22T13:37:33.393-08:00<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From Yellow to Blue</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For weeks my studio has been suffused with a lovely golden glow as I worked on the four new forsythia paintings (see last post). With the several I already have, that may be enough for the yellow part of my upc<span style="font-size: large;">oming show. If not I will try to execute another one later. But I am moving into the Blue phase now, which will be seascapes. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I spent a lot of time staring at the sea this summer, and took a lot of photos. Now I am trying to make those fleeting moments come alive again, and preserve them on <span style="font-size: large;">canvas. </span>I am working hard </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to follow my inner eye on this series, and attempt to get what I really see on the canvas. I always feel that I overwork and overmuddy the work. They start out so free and spontaneous and then I don't stop in time. The more I can get happening fast, they better off I am, but because I work in layers, I need the drying time. I hope to do two or three more this size, and then a larger one.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SPINNING OUT OF CO<span style="font-size: large;">N</span>TROL<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> AND BACK IN</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Am I a person who needs a deadline to paint? I seem to work better under a deadline, or anyway <span style="font-size: large;">I </span>work MORE under pressure. Right now, I am in somewhat of a panic, as I will be having a show in the Glass Rubin Hallway at Dartmouth Hitchcock in March. I only have about half of the work, and that will include removing three from the condo, including a very large abstracted forsythia and a large seascape. I think the title is going to be "From Here to There, in Yellow and Blue." It will focus on a series of forsythia paintings <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">(</span>the "yellow" and the "here"<span style="font-size: large;">)</span> </span>most of them new as the old ones have sold<span style="font-size: large;">, and seascapes <span style="font-size: large;">(</span>the "there" and the "now".</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Below <span style="font-size: large;">are</span> the new ones which I think <span style="font-size: large;">are</span> complete<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and <span style="font-size: large;">are ready for framing.Photos are taken with my iPhone, so are not the best<span style="font-size: large;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Bouquet as a Springtime Wind</i> oil on canvas</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">On to the </span>seascapes, the first of which has been started. I will probably include a few winter pieces I have that that will edge into the spring forsythia, and then the summer sea. Should amount to about 14-20 pieces which should be enough.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are two things I <span style="font-size: large;">l</span>ove to paint. </span></span>Both make me so happy. Up here in the Northlands, forsythia is the beacon leading us ever so painfully slowly into spring, and the only spring color a lot of us have in April<span style="font-size: large;">,</span> amidst the patches of snow, and the mud. The critters eat the crocus, and daffodils come later. These cheerful, intense yellows that spring up are as welcome as the sun, and in fact seem to absorb <span style="font-size: large;">the sun into their tiny blossoms and billowy boughs.</span> Forsythia as a subject <span style="font-size: large;">on canvas </span>lends itself to a loose, painterly style which I like, and allows me to layer, and work with both color and texture. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The first and third ones <span style="font-size: large;">above are</span> fairly traditional, but beyond that they are edging into abstract impressionism.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Why have I not been in my studio<span style="font-size: large;"> very often</span>?</i> I have not got a good answer, except that I had not been <span style="font-size: large;">feeling well for <span style="font-size: large;">well over a year. Part of it was random, and sometimes <span style="font-size: large;">debilitating</span> pain, and part of it was extreme exhaustion. I finally got myself to the doctor<span style="font-size: large;">s --- my internist, then </span></span></span>rheumatologist and orthopedist. After many blood tests, many <span style="font-size: large;">xrays, and many discussions, I <span style="font-size: large;">finally had some answers.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. Escalating <span style="font-size: large;">osteo </span>arthritis <span style="font-size: large;">in my hands, big toes, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and knees, <i>which I could have told them<span style="font-size: large;">!</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> My fingers begin to look like my mother's. </span> <span style="font-size: large;">But happily, none </span>in my hips.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">2. Chronic, rather severe, Bursitis in my knees and hips, something I did not know. AND they told me the reason I cannot walk more than a few blocks is because of THAT, <i>not </i>because of my long-term stenosis. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. Most interesting, they believe I have fibromyalgia, causing the random pain from pressure points on my body which comes and goes, and the exhaustion. <i>And what is that??</i></span><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fibromyalgi<span style="font-size: large;"><u>a</u></span> is a common and complex
chronic pain disorder. <span style="font-size: large;">It</span> is a syndrome rather than a disease<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">, </span></b></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">a</span></span> syndrome <span style="font-size: large;">being</span> a collection of signs, symptoms, and medical problems
that tend to occur together but are not related to a specific, identifiable
cause. This medical syndrome is characterized by chronic widespread pain and
allodynia, a heightened and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">painful
response to pressure<span style="font-size: large;"> and pain</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">,</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">causing </span>long-term,<span style="font-size: large;"> and frequent flare ups<span style="font-size: large;">,</span> of </span>body-wide, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">flu-like pain</span>, and tenderness in the joints, muscles, tendons, and
other soft tissues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Painful areas
are called trigger or tender points<span style="font-size: large;"> in specific areas of the body. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some studies have suggested that people with fibromyalgia may perceive
pain differently in their brains than healthy people. Fibromyalgia may involve too much
activity in the parts of the central nervous system that process pain (the
nociceptive system). Other symptoms are </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~</span>High sensitivity to temperature, bright lights, loud sounds and odors, all of which can bother you much more than they do everyone
else; </span><br />
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one position for too long;</span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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metabolism (why I am on happy pills); </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~</span>Numbness or tingling in the face, arms,
hands, legs, or feet;<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~</span>Muscle knots,<span style="font-size: small;"> l</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">eg and foot</span> </span>cramping, weakness and feeling of swelling (without actual
swelling) in the hands; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All of the above are part of my life. There are others which are not, including depression, thank goodness!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><b>Anyway, surely much more than you want to know, but it is rather interesting, and who knows, may explain some of your OWN problems, or those of someone you know!</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So what do I do about this, since, because I am on Coumadin for life <span style="font-size: large;">because of my</span> Pulmonary Embolisms, I cannot take pain killers..... Well, they suggest Physical Therapy for the knees, and exercise for everything. I have been going to water aerobics 3x a week and will start the PE soon. I am on a diet, although they did not mention that<span style="font-size: large;">;</span> am also looking into acupuncture<span style="font-size: large;">;</span> and have started some therapeutic neuro-centered massage.<b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>But the real wonder has been GIVING UP GLUTEN. <i>(</i></b>I am also eating no soy, no diet sodas, even organic, no processed foods, and very little red meat, and for weight loss, nothing white when possible.)<b> I have been gluten free except for two slices of pizza at my son's and some squid tempura at a restaurant for three weeks, AND, much to my surprise, I am am greatly improved! </b><i><b> </b></i>I am truly shocked that I can get out of bed in the morning or after a long car ride, without staggering<b>, </b>fearful of falling,<b> </b> and holding onto things<i><b>. </b></i>I can go down stairs with much less pain.<i><b> </b></i>I have had NO muscle cramps.<i><b> </b></i>And NO debilitating fibro flare ups like I did over the holidays. So I am a very, very happy soul, busily finding non gluten substitutes for bread, pasta, etc.<i><b> and feeling so much better. </b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><b>So much so, that painting is a joy again, and not an exhausting chore!</b></i></span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-33794592196081332442013-02-06T13:59:00.000-08:002013-02-06T13:59:08.965-08:00<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Water Work</b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">s</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” – e.e. Cummings</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the end of summer, you can feel the inventions of fall in the air. The first day of fall </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">with glorious weather, and I should be outside, but I am involved with a fairly large piece in the studio this week ... 48 inches wide. It is at the layering stage, and I am on about the 4th layer. It begins to take shape, but I am constantly fighting to keep it loose and abstract. It is of course for sale, as everything I do is, but I plan to hang it in our bedroom at the condo until my show at DHMC next year. I also need to get a much better photo of it, this one is very fuzzy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The piece is a seascape, my favored </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="st"><i>métier </i></span>these days. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Perhaps because I am happiest when on the seaside, I am happiest when painting it.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Also, it is what the Nantucket gallery wants from me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I also reworked a painting I did earlier this year. I had been happy with the over saturation of color, and toned down the sky and water. Maybe I ruined it, I don't know, but it seemed a bit garish to me. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I spent hours sitting on beaches this summer,looking at the water and the
sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how they catch
the light, how they are affected by the wind; watching the horizontal patterns of the layers of waves, the sweep of it all -- just listening to the waves, the gulls, and breathing in the salty air. I took a lot of photos in Nantucket and, during Labor Day week, at the Jersey shore in Barnegat Light, and hope to get a series out of them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nothing is the same as the ocean...ponds, pools, rivers, lakes, all nice, but none of them can compare.They have no energy, no soul. No excitement. I go whenever I can to the ocean for relaxation, rejuvenation, revelation, and peace. That was our last vacation in a year of many ---- Santa Fe, France, Nantucket and Barnegat Light. We were joined for half of the week by our daughter, son-in-law and grandson, and some very good friends. Then we had a few days by ourselves before saying goodbye to the ocean until next summer. I will revisit in in my studio, and in my dreams.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-41949233666703603402012-08-21T10:21:00.001-07:002012-08-21T10:27:42.267-07:00Rose Madder Red Face<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Or is it perhaps Cadmium Red?</i> It is more than embarrassing that I have not posted a blog since late May. The world has been too much with me .... filled with family/friends visitors, gardening, giant five-family garage sale, vacations, and all the effort involved in closing on and moving into the condo, our new second home. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All of that is behind me now, except for one last foray to the ocean, coming up Labor Day week when we always go to New Jersey's barrier island, Long Beach Island -- where I spent part of all of my childhood summers (in Loveladies) on up until 1996. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At least the beach, and ocean is the same, but the then very sparsely built on dunes are chock-a-block with one beach McMansion after another spoiling what was once a magical place. It has become too chi-chi, to Hamptonsy for me. But the next town at the end of the island, Barnegat Light -- historically a fishing village -- is about as unchanged as anywhere on the island. And that is where we go for a week each year, in my perhaps misguided efforts to go home again to cook some weakfish, eat some clams, sit in the sun, and smell that extraordinary smell of salt in the breeze that is unlike anywhere else I know.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But art has been on my mind. I was part of an invitational farm-themed show with at The Justin Morrill Homestead here in Strafford in July, and submitted these paintings:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">and this one, very poor photo from a slide, that dates back a number of years:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sold the latter for a good price, which was nice, but I always miss them when they go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also have my large forsythia painting in a show at the Twin River Gallery in Lyme, NH, but I have yet to take a photo of that piece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And finally, I took three new pieces up to my Nantucket Gallery, East End Gallery, which sold three of mine in the spring. I brought one home which I do not think she has really shown, but which I like, and will probably hang in the condo. This is a poor iphone photo of it: I will get a better one and insert it here later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I ran into my friend Michael Moore at the gallery who was mounting a show there. Good to see him, and I fell in love with one of his pieces, see below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been asked to be a curator for the May 2013 show at the Tang Museum of Art in Saratoga Springs for the fiftieth reunion juried show to be held there. I have accepted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Otherwise, and indeed I have a life besides my art, life has been hectic but good. Our time in Nantucket was especially wonderful, with the entire family gathered on the little bit of paradise my son located up there about 8 years ago. It could not be more delightful, with all my children and grandchildren, extended family nearby, the old shingled beach house nestled on a dune, the ocean out the back, and the harbor (bay) across the street for a front yard. With so few houses on this little spit of land, there is never more than one other family in view, way down the beach, which makes it an ocean paradise, as far as I am concerned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But where has the summer gone, and how many more are left to me?</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-64842854495008561362012-06-13T09:20:00.002-07:002012-06-13T15:10:45.786-07:00Painterly Paris with Pals<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although the primary focus of our recent trip to France was to gather and hang out with a very close group of high school friends, in between drinking wine, eating the usual extraordinary French food, laughing and crying, we did manage to fit in a few cultural activities.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-CuhLDGWVVCAJSwCxpwlY9fsVn8IYKEhXkiOS-3DTIpGZXVLWA-aLpD2v4J40A3wloHXTF3df6LwLP4LqVIcXe6YHSJP2sZldvC8x-KGfxIEb7Sw6DYrA1FO1Zl8_CGtJux8T1Bf__o/s1600/modi.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-CuhLDGWVVCAJSwCxpwlY9fsVn8IYKEhXkiOS-3DTIpGZXVLWA-aLpD2v4J40A3wloHXTF3df6LwLP4LqVIcXe6YHSJP2sZldvC8x-KGfxIEb7Sw6DYrA1FO1Zl8_CGtJux8T1Bf__o/s1600/modi.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I think my favorite was the exhibit at the Pinacoteque Museum </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Jonas Collection: Modligliani, Soutine and the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adventure of Montparnasse". </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pinacotheque de Paris is fairly new in the world of art museums. It was founded in 2007 as a private museum - one of
the few in Paris.</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">To walk into an exhibit of Modigliani works never before exhibited was an extraordinary experience. Like a schoolgirl, I even bought the lovely poster which I am framing for the condo! (See above.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">Netter, one of the most prominent collectors of the 20th century, really "made" Modigliani. Developing an early passion for M's work, Netter amassed a collection of some 40 paintings by the late 1920's, along with many done by Utrillo, whose white period he admired, and Soutine. Without Netter, Modigliani, Soutine and Utrillo, also represented in this show, would probably never have </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">become well known. This exhibit finally pays Netter the attention he deserves, and allows the public to discover an absolutely stunning body of work, highlighted and dominated by the Modiglianis. My favorite was "Girl in Blue" left. I could not tear myself away from it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also spent a few hours at Mus</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">é</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">e Maillol at an exhibit of Artemesia Gentileschi, a very successful woman painter in the 1600's. In a time and place where women were regarded as even less than </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">second-class citizens, Artemisia
Gentileschi broke all the laws of the society at 16 by legally (in court) disgracing a man for raping her and later for becoming a such a well-known artist -- even eclipsing her well-known father Orazio Gentileschi. Seeking her own independence and artistic prowess, she worked tirelessly for princes and
cardinals, and for herself. Like Caravaggio, it took three centuries for it to be re appreciated, recognized an</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">d universally applauded. Her work often portrays women as assertive beings, capable of giving
themselves over to both crime and pleasure (often both at the same
time), t</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">hus breaking away from the sexist conventions of the
17th century. Her work was then shunned by patriarchal society for centuries;
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is being recognized as one of the most revolutionary Italian artists of
the Baroque period. This exhibition, at the Musée Maillol, reinstates
Artemisia as a painting genius.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidjcxbE1hPFZPpvjc9MGcYDfthlDDNPtc2hcJbTBRifB6jRA_Ixfl63e4JrtsghIWZjVU7nzTK-53a0frgWU1bJbF9zP9-jVlJJqX7SlElyA4Ht8QuUR_ZTlobH8M6h6Ojysqq51QnvWM/s1600/Seraphina.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidjcxbE1hPFZPpvjc9MGcYDfthlDDNPtc2hcJbTBRifB6jRA_Ixfl63e4JrtsghIWZjVU7nzTK-53a0frgWU1bJbF9zP9-jVlJJqX7SlElyA4Ht8QuUR_ZTlobH8M6h6Ojysqq51QnvWM/s640/Seraphina.JPG" width="480" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Upstairs at the museum was a small selection of work by </span><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Séraphine Louis</b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, known as "</span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Séraphine de Senlis</i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">" </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">("Séraphine of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senlis,_Oise" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" title="Senlis, Oise">Senlis</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">") 1864–1942</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span>.<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Did any of you see the marvelous French film about her?) which was great fun to see. A very poor, uneducated <i> </i>self-taught painter, this housemaid was influenced by the stained glass windows in churches.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">With almost no money, she </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">made her own paint </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">colors from plants and animals that she developed herself, all while doing menial jobs to keep painting.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Séraphine's <i>naif</i> work is very detailed and exquisite, and she only painted flowers and nature.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Aside from that, we toured the beautiful Cluny which never disappoints, attended a lovely music concert at a church near our friend's Left Bank Paris apartment, and some of them went to The Louvre one night. I did not go,too tired!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Back home I got into my own studio, and have three paintings underway. I need more work, the galleries are asking for it. I sold three pieces through East End Gallery, the gallery which handles my work in Nantucket, which is nice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yellows, Blues and Earth Tones</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I imagined I would come back from Santa Fe, where we spent a week this month, all fired up to paint the scenery, or at least try some Georgia O'Keeffe stylized work. But whereas I was blown away by the Santa Fe area, and absolutely mesmerized by all I learned about O'Keeffe, in my studio I am right back to my own local landscape work, in my own style. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> But
surely a bit of the place, a bit of the woman, has rubbed off on me. I
was deeply moved when touring her home at Abiquiu: I am not sure I have
ever been anywhere where I felt the spirit of someone as much as I did in that
very simple pueblo home, the courtyard, and within the walls of her
gardens. Look at the colors above!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">The door in the courtyard which was, she said the reason she bought the house, and the subject of many, many of her paintings.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> You just feel her there, as you take in the familiar -- from her work -- panoramic views from the top of her driveway and her bedroom and studio of the Chama River Valley, and in the distance, the Angre de Cristo Mountain Range, the Abiquiu Mesa.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dishes are on counter under shelves to left, next to the scale</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was THRILLED to see that she had the same set of dishes, "Ruska by the Finnish company Arabia, that I have had since I got married! You can just see some of them in her kitchen on the counter shelf next to the scale, above. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
area around her home, and the drive from there up to her earlier home,
which remained her summer place, Ghost Ranch, was absolutely beautiful.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Even the parking lots are adobe!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ALL of the Santa Fe area was beautiful, inspiring. And the small city -- more of a large town at 20,000 year round inhabitants -- was as lovely and exciting as everyone says it is. Like Nantucket, all buildings have to be to code, either old adobe or "Santa Fake" adobes, and the result is a harmonious whole, with beautiful vistas and vignettes wherever you look. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Once you get used to the city's rigorous insistence that every building should
look like either a seventeenth-century Spanish colonial palace or worker's hovel, strolling
around its compact, peaceful downtown is a real pleasure. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nothing is more than about three stories tall, with a few exceptions ... churches, some hotels. The food is extraordinary, so good that since we got home we have been on starvation diets. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other place that fascinated and awed was Bandelier National Monument. From their brochure: "</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Bandelier National Monument protects over 33,000 acres of rugged but
beautiful canyon and mesa country as well as evidence of a human
presence here going back over 11,000 years. Petroglyphs, dwellings
carved into the soft rock cliffs, and standing masonry walls pay tribute
to the early days of the Anasazi culture that still survives in the surrounding
communities."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dwellings</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I actually climbed up to a dwelling</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On our trip, we </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">concentrated on the land and the area rather than the multitude of galleries and museums which we just touched upon, so we want to go back, perhaps in winter. I did find one work of art admired greatly, on the famous Canyon Road of galleries, which makes Santa Fe the second largest art center in the USA, after New York.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back home, life has gone on as usual except after a week of eating at one fine restaurant after another, and prior to our upcoming trip to France, we have been eating and drinking NOTHING! I have gotten in some studio time, and managed to complete the barn painting, one of series I have done over the past few years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The barn paintings are one place where I remain rather traditional in my approach. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In addition, I have begun a large piece, of forsythia, in brilliant and varied yellows with a skyblue background. I have done many small forsythia paintings in the past, but never one on this scale. I told John I felt as if I were Jackson Pollack, flinging great gobs of paint at the canvas, spraying spirits on it, just happily mucking about. It is not yet viewable, next blog.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-6542719744252864242012-03-28T22:02:00.001-07:002012-03-28T22:05:38.512-07:00Easy Does It<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am easing back into the studio. This week I spent some time on a piece that I started last month. It is nowhere near finished, all I have really worked on is the barn. The background trees, sky and snow all need work. The photo below is very bad, took it with my ipad, but once it is finished I will post a better one. (Not sure why it is so fuzzy ... on my computer it is crystal clear. Very low rez though.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is a continuation of an ongoing theme of mine--- intermingled with my more and more abstract landscapes and seascapes are the far more realistic barns which I am continually drawn to in the Vermont landscape. And I worry that they are fast disappearing.</span><br />
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<div class="linkbar" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think that it is a pity that we in North America are so cavalier about not just our natural, but also our man-made heritage. In Europe there has been for many years a serious effort to preserve the family farm and to preserve buildings from previous generations. Such a commitment to preservation requires commitment and money. The Europeans consider it a worthy cost. Apparently we North Americans don't, and so our heritage disappears, very often through lack of caring, and more often through greed.</span></div><div class="linkbar" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #000033;">An American barn is such a manifestation of this cultural heritage. Each year as more barns up here are lost to fires, falling down due to time and neglect and deterioration, vandalism and the elements, and torn down for real estate development. More recently, they knocked over and </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">sold for the rustic lumber to be used in upscale houses for floors and walls, or simply torn down for real estate development. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #000033;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #000033;">So I am on my own little campaign to paint some of the remaining barns. So many old barns are now gone from sight only to remain with us in photographs. And in paintings such as mine. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most of my time this month has been spent on condo stuff. It has been somewhat of a nightmare. Currently we still do not have a closing date, but the contract is signed. I suspect if we are lucky we will get in in the end of June.</span><br />
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</a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XczvcOdGa-2Is6x5w0sQAJ40DROvHxYS_Xkk1sqPj92bhRguK7n3AK3y3iMIzPIK_BLC_0Hi8EFNuOroXVQH0l1MuwEYqu9Op6e1vPATibyoq1fzx13z1BIg9gTAN1LUVk5gYdYJYTY/s1600/Hall.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, I cannot commit to the floor folks or the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">painter, although Jen's cousin Courtney, an Interior Designer, and I have been pouring over paint <i>colors</i>. I find that a lot of fun, perhaps because I am so interested in color. I have decided on a basically blue color scheme, a </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">fi</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XczvcOdGa-2Is6x5w0sQAJ40DROvHxYS_Xkk1sqPj92bhRguK7n3AK3y3iMIzPIK_BLC_0Hi8EFNuOroXVQH0l1MuwEYqu9Op6e1vPATibyoq1fzx13z1BIg9gTAN1LUVk5gYdYJYTY/s1600/Hall.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XczvcOdGa-2Is6x5w0sQAJ40DROvHxYS_Xkk1sqPj92bhRguK7n3AK3y3iMIzPIK_BLC_0Hi8EFNuOroXVQH0l1MuwEYqu9Op6e1vPATibyoq1fzx13z1BIg9gTAN1LUVk5gYdYJYTY/s1600/Hall.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">rst for me, who usually had white or off white walls, and a cranberry and ochre color scheme. In the condo, the entry and hall will be in a kind of saturated dusky blue, see left, called Sapphire Ice, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">done in striped, alternating flat and gloss stripes about 4 inches across of the same color. Shiny high gloss white trim. </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPuZkjoFhh-_FFQmx_sDDeXKXC4eWLKjTK69IxnZt06QdQ__jJY1vGY7m1REoj7yMvHp-N3xMAAApfrSVTXLWlli6pR9catmi7k5pYONCv_csjXwIczf24DGsHLYNEAzEaRuNbOWXsZA/s1600/Sangria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPuZkjoFhh-_FFQmx_sDDeXKXC4eWLKjTK69IxnZt06QdQ__jJY1vGY7m1REoj7yMvHp-N3xMAAApfrSVTXLWlli6pR9catmi7k5pYONCv_csjXwIczf24DGsHLYNEAzEaRuNbOWXsZA/s1600/Sangria.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Guestroom/ Den will be Ben Moore's Sangria, top row right, after much vacillating, again with glossy white trim and glossy black accents, like the built in desk which I will paint, and black and white photos on the walls in black frames. It is a color similar to others I have used before</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the mudroom and man cave up here.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8lqfl10SdjzSHnivVPjkJS2PIiKdiGsCn9HVxN-mKXh0IqmZP-uhS66q2Diyf-yyqLWjkoBZsEGL-E5gZ80xxWvX0O98jMmJNxNJsvmEl0Bz6ROz3XkNooKorDVSCowuRCaa4S64KbE/s1600/Ocean+Air.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8lqfl10SdjzSHnivVPjkJS2PIiKdiGsCn9HVxN-mKXh0IqmZP-uhS66q2Diyf-yyqLWjkoBZsEGL-E5gZ80xxWvX0O98jMmJNxNJsvmEl0Bz6ROz3XkNooKorDVSCowuRCaa4S64KbE/s1600/Ocean+Air.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our bedroom is going to be painted a marvelous Ben Moore blue that is aptly named Ocean Air, and I hope it makes me feel as if I am <i>at</i> the ocean, where I am always the happiest and most relaxed. The trim will be an off white called White Dove, I think. These colors will continue into the master bath which someday is going to be redone.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am having my mother's small couch and matching chair -- which with the wood trim have a somewhat French Provincial look --reupholstered in large and small navy buffalo checks. There will be a fair amount of navy in those rooms, as well. Anyway, it has kept me busy, working with a very different kind of paint!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have had some very bizarre weather --- within three days we had 81 degrees and sunny, and 27 degrees and hail and sleet and snow. Only in New England. And only in Vermont would you find, as the forsythia is close to bloom, that NO daffodils have emerged, but the red points of tulips are up everywhere in the herb gardens. Usually here, they bloom together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are off to Santa Fe in a week, for a week, which we are looking forward to mightily. I look forward to seeing Georgia O Keefe museum and home, the galleries, native American ruins and art, and the wonderful Pueblo architecture out there. I wonder if we can try not to read the papers or listen to the news while we are away, much of which is so disheartening to me, and causing so much angst and anger in this house.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-12683788551466566832012-03-01T15:45:00.002-08:002012-03-02T09:52:20.508-08:00I Feel As If I Were A Football ....<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lately, life has centered around "Not Vermont" and that is always a bit unsettling for me. It has been some month, with things moving so fast I feel as if I were a football being hurled through my life, much too fast!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But it has been very exciting.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We took some time off to go south to the New York Metropolitan Area for a variety of reasons--- to search for a condo closer to our kids than our current four hour drive; to help celebrate our granddaughter Lily turn seven; and to spend four days in Manhattan, getting our city fix. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The condo hunt, spurred on by me ever since we turned 70, became a reality. I know that someday we will need to move out of our wonderful Vermont retreat here on the hill, because a 11 room 5 bathroom house and 37 acres with a lot of non-low maint gardens is rapidly going to be too much for us to handle. I do plan to hire someone this summer to help me convert some garden areas to low maintenance spaces, and I do have 4 hours a week of cleaning help, but in five years, definitely 10 years, we will be in over our heads here. And, having lived two hours from Daddy when he was so sick, and almost five hours from John's Dad when he became so very needy, we know how difficult the distance can be for children of aging parents. Add to that it would be nice to have our own digs, our own bed, and a place we can bring the dogs whenever we go down to visit the family or go to New York AND the fact that interest rates and condo prices are very low, it seemed like the ideal time to consider this. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So in the course of two days, we saw about ten condos, and before we knew it, had an offer in. The ones we loved the most were not in developments, but in beautiful old buildings of their own, but were either too expensive, or had too many stairs (one had both those issues). We settled on an older one with a European feel inside and some interesting detail (curved arched doorways, Portuguese tiled kitchen, cathedral ceiling-ed living room) with a warm inviting feel and even a deck and back yard, in Heritage Hills, in Somers, NY. After the usual dickering back and forth we feel we got a very good deal, and as of this week we are under contract. No closing date yet, but I anticipate we will be there by mid April.</span><span style="font-size: large;">This is the outside of our place:</span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We liked this because although it is one of about six condos built together around a courtyard, the only common wall we have is the end of the 2 car garage to the left of what you see. The other side is not connected to anything. And behind there is a view of nothing but trees and distant towns from the deck. We feel it will be quite private.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am not posting any interior pictures until we have made some changes to it! It is owned by a 93 year old man who has lived there with his wife since it was built in 1975.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This has thrown me, the visual member of this household, into a tailspin. I am up to my ears in floor samples, paint colors, wallpaper samples, fabric samples, room schemes, and lists of what I have that can be used there, and what (few I hope) things we need to purchase (bed, TV, dining room hutch, lamps, inexpensive area rugs, etc) My husband is aghast, believing we can just move in there with a new bed, a TV, and take it from there. Not I. I need the old carpeting OUT and a new wood floor layed, and walls painted in yummy Farrow and Ball colors, some older furniture slipcovered or reupholstered. So I am busy on the computer all day searching out things.... EBay purchases, Pinterest for decor ideas and to start my own page of saved stuff, googling floors, paints, <i>endless, endless.</i> But I want this place to be done right, well, and beautifully. After all it is where I will live when I am really old, should I live long, and where I will likely die. I will not be able to do all this decorating then, <i>so now is the time.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the midst of all of that condo looking, we had the birthday party for Lily with all of the family. Always a treat, always lovely to be together. She is the cutest little girl, and so full of life, vitality and mischief, we just adore her. She is shown to left, just out of the pool with wet hair and a silly smile at her Hawaiian themed birthday party for her friends. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On that Monday we drove into the city to our time share at The Manhattan Club. We just had time to change and go to dinner at Ed's Chowder House across from Lincoln Center, before going to see/hear <i>Aida</i>. Marvelous! It must be the third time I have seen it, and it doesn't get old. We especially liked Stephanie Blythe as Amneris. Being able to take a cab back to our place instead of driving for an hour to one of the kids' houses was wonderful!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a good few days. We went to the dog show at MSG, and oohed and ahhed even though we are not really into the dog show world. John left early because he had to go to the office where he consults.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I also really liked Willard Metcalf's The North Country, painted in Perkinsville, VT, near Sprinjgfield. It actually reminds me of my own painting style when I am not being too abstract.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Metcalf took a long time to really bloom, <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but by 1905, encouraged by his friend </span>Childe Hassam,<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> he began summering in Old Lyme, CT with "The Colony" working as both painter and teacher. He subsequently held successful exhibitions in New York with his much lighter style and again at the St. Botolph Club. His expertly handled, subtle views of the New England landscape, such as this one of my home state, met with steady critical and financial success. To my mind he is not as good as George Inness though, one of my favorites!</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">John's favorite was <i>Chess Master</i> by Eakins, a painter we both admire. </span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Islamic Wing was given short shrift because we were tired, or I was, but it was a jewel of a place, and just marvelous! Very hushed and almost reverential, we tiptoed around admiring everything. <b> </b>We especially liked the room of carpets, and The Damascus room, a nearly intact 18th-century reception chamber from a wealthy Syrian residence, which has been reassembled. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOar23aXX4xq3zoPaMupl1w5zDbWf8UE7vNqtzH6rYixAt9XxVR0yWZAhMKrshG4yhF0HeuRFej8_p3BgoUFPJ2LUPIl6RgTAqnUwUWAT9KdzrSr1Jyvs-r2CrlT26XcwsGz5KtPVsAY/s1600/Islamic+Room.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOar23aXX4xq3zoPaMupl1w5zDbWf8UE7vNqtzH6rYixAt9XxVR0yWZAhMKrshG4yhF0HeuRFej8_p3BgoUFPJ2LUPIl6RgTAqnUwUWAT9KdzrSr1Jyvs-r2CrlT26XcwsGz5KtPVsAY/s640/Islamic+Room.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">The walls are inscribed with a sequence of verses inspired by the 13th-century Egyptian poet al-Busiri.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Contrasting all this culture was the gastronomic pleasures of the city, including a belated anniversary lunch at Le Bernadin on the 15th with dear old friends the Coopers, and fabulous Carnegie Deli Jewish sandwiches, just down the street from the Club, which we miss SO much in Vermont. We had these for two nights in our rooms, and one night our Strafford friends the Dycusses came over and had sandwiches and wine with us. The are buying a condo in the city, and were down for a month in the city in a rental to spend time with their kids. <b>Condos to be with the kids seems to be the way to go.....</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-75898015096185900822012-01-29T17:23:00.000-08:002012-01-29T22:43:20.831-08:00Back to Work<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have not been working in my studio since well before the holidays, much to my dismay. I finally got back in there, and have a large piece started on the easel. I am painting over one of the Yellowstone paintings I did for the book for which I have no real love or use. I had hoped to make it an <i>alla prima</i>, but it has not worked out that way.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My gallery in Lyme called and asked me to bring over some new work for the show they are hanging. They sold both pieces from the last show they had up. I took six over, and they hung three, including this one which I did a few years ago and which I do not think I have put in the blog before:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My Nantucket Gallery is finally getting a website up, and I sent in about 16 images to the webmaster. I am looking forward to seeing it when it is finished. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is hunkering down time, firelight and movie nights at home time. We stay abed late these icy mornings, reading the <i>New York Times</i> on our ipads, snuggled under the soft flannel sheets and quilt. I still manage to haul myself out into the cold to go to my water aerobics as often as I can, but otherwise, I have been very hermity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is also time in my life to clean out closets, drawers, trunks, and hopefully soon, attic. The garages will have to wait until warm weather. We have been in this house 14 1/2 years, and although all was perfect when we moved in, we have added the contents of the NJ condo which we sold and contents of parents' apartments after they died. I am in overwhelm with stuff, and am determined to get rid of a lot of it. I am pretending I am moving, and doing the three G's -- making piles of </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">1) Garbage; 2) Giveaways and 3) Garage sale stuff.</span><br />
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<span id="goog_1103915842"></span><span id="goog_1103915843"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-81246528426641300452012-01-07T13:10:00.000-08:002012-01-19T16:14:39.933-08:00The New Year<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCr5fpV1fgRLubsNGy0gfupuNOGHoINqee6Ky_1-bgH2SXq6Cdo81rgp9bT_H9CsSwFPXFBbjY6odKMbMjY7fDAgGPmd8a354AEyOENUt92dp5CSvEiyrGmLFzYPazNPg12Qh1s1h6n0o/s1600/Xmas_cookies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Happy New Year to my three readers of this blog. Maybe four. It doesn't look like January without the deep snow cover we usually have by now, but when I woke up this AM to 5 degree temps, it did FEEL like it.</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> We celebrated the holidays totally "away" this year, which felt very strange. This is the third Christmas we have traveled down to be with out children after years of them coming to us, but normally they then come up here for Vermont snow party and New Years. This year, it was decided that it was my son's in laws' turn to host New Years in Connecticut, so off we went again. It was all a delight in spite of being elsewhere, and I include a few photos below. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Because we entertained rather largely this year prior to leaving, we did put the trees up, and filled the house with greenery and candles. Christmas actually came to TWO houses here ... I had to decorate both ours and the Littles' small domain .... </span></h2><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Christmas Eve at my son's with three of our grandkids was delightful, but for some unknown reason we got very few photos of their extremely pretty,warm and festive home, or of the glorious Christmas Eve extended family party. My daughter in law outdid herself. Did get this of the granddaughters' singing in their Christmas dresses....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">They were all asked to give up a gift this year, and instead donate one to a deserving child. And I bought much needed school desks for children in Africa in each of my four grandkids' names. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">On Boxing Day, both families gathered at my daughters's -- a very special time, except my daughter in law was not well. The highlight was the music making, a traditional</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> part of our festivities. This year my oldest grandchild Aidan was allowed to join in the merrymaking on his new guitar, so we had three generations involved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">New Year's in Sharon, CT at our machatunim's home (spelling??) was a warm, casual, family Eve gathering, and the next day, husband and son cooked our usual southern feast, harking back to John's NC roots. Most of the recipes are his mother's or grandmothers--- black eyed peas, cole slaw, collard greens, corn bread, ribs and fried chicken! Here are the chefs and their creations:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">All I did was make the desserts, dense chocolate cake, and Virginia pecan pie. Nobody starved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">The good news on the gallery front is that I sold two paintings through my gallery in Lyme, NH -- one of which I never even got a good photo of. They went for good prices, but sadly I only get 55% of it. <i>C'est la vie. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Happy New Year to my readers!!!!!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-69773745757732467712011-12-02T07:26:00.000-08:002011-12-02T19:22:10.690-08:00An Obsessive Fork in My Creative World<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: large;">When I was 13, my laughing father walked into my room and saw me sitting by my dollhouse, and said "Aren't you a little old to be playing with dolls?" I felt as if he had slapped me in the face. My dollhouse had been my world, my obsession since I was 8 years old. How could I get rid of it? I was filled with adolescent angst. Eventually, within the next year, my obsessions shifted to boys, especially one particular 17 year old football player, and the dollhouse was carefully packed away in the attic. But </span><span style="font-size: large;">I can remember that doll house family of Flagg dolls as well as I remember my flesh and blood family, and that long-gone 1950's era tin lithographed dollhouse as well as my real house.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> I did not unwrap all the plastic Renwal furniture and the dolls from those boxes until my daughter was about 8. I built her a dollhouse which was a Christmas gift, and after 25 years, my obsession was suddenly back, and suddenly shared. I sometimes stole into her room when she was at school and straightened up the house, communed with the dolls, the same tiny, familiar family from my childhood which now were under her control, with new names and dressed in outfits which she made. I watched my daughter use her dollhouse as a decorative fashion statement, and a chance to play with the emerging roles of adulthood. A dollhouse provides a safe place to role play adult responsibilities, to let your imagination run wild, as well as a wonderful backdrop for creative expression of self and decorating tastes. </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Before long, after a successful solo show of my paintings, I took some of the money and bought myself, as an adult, a large and complicated dollhouse kit. And built it almost singlehandedly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">What do you suppose the psychological implications are behind an obsession with dollhouses and miniatures which lasts into one's adult years? It is not uncommon -- there is a huge world of miniature enthusiasts and craftsmen and women out there. Is it perhaps a need to be in control of a controllable, tiny world? A need to escape to a place where the sun always shines, and nothing bad happens (unless, as happened to me as a kid, a male cousin comes and sticks a tiny kitchen knife in the father and writes RIP on his coffin, and sticks the mother's head in the tiny toilet!)? Why does a miniature replica of a vase of roses, a chocolate cake or book give one with such a rush of serotonin, sense of well being, of joy? In any case, I built the house, electrified and decorated it, and staged it to be set in about 1928, when my mother was a teenager. I began collecting and creating items for it, and had it pretty well in hand when we moved--- to a wonderful small Cotswold Cottage type of house, but with no room for a large dollhouse. It was relegated to the basement. And shortly thereafter, a kitchen pipe broke, flooded the dollhouse, ruined the lighting, and made me so sad I just left it there, stained wallpaper, buckled siding, lost shingles, and covered it with a sheet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">When we moved to Vermont 15 years ago I had it placed in my studio, thinking I would get to it someday. It gathered dust. Then grandchildren began to arrive in my world, including my two adorable little girls, Eloise and Lily, who found the house, and desperately wanted it to be fixed NOW.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">My obsession returned. I began to nag my husband to rewire it. It took the abnormally large electrician and a helper in town six years, <i>but it is almost finished</i>. Meanwhile I have been carpentrying, wallpapering, painting, making curtains and small accessories, and running up large bills at a couple of miniature stores. The Little family has been "writing" to my granddaughters reporting on the progress of the house, and even though much more work needs to be done on the outside, and a basement has to be built to house the electrical transformers. Last week they moved in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8nP6LwOtByF43Griae_SZiaqmiOuUIdqRMcDmgFF9b1VO8g9HAhjUhrNN6A3PPJEhFRcexqBWkYpARLWYLkab7xzOqahnaGgEMwaSCi8Ig-yT5aVsOigRKw6u2Bc9d4VR0rGxPTJRAs/s1600/Outside1+flipped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: large;">Come take a look! Remember, this is 1928, in Vermont. I am trying to give my granddaughters a bit of history as this house evolves, and may open it to children from my little village to come and see at some point, complete with a written history of the era, and information on the family in a booklet. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> The Little's house was badly damaged in the 1927 Vermont flood, and it has taken them a long time to make the repairs, but finally they are home again. Come on up to the porch, watch out for the baby carriage, and come on in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8nP6LwOtByF43Griae_SZiaqmiOuUIdqRMcDmgFF9b1VO8g9HAhjUhrNN6A3PPJEhFRcexqBWkYpARLWYLkab7xzOqahnaGgEMwaSCi8Ig-yT5aVsOigRKw6u2Bc9d4VR0rGxPTJRAs/s1600/Outside1+flipped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8nP6LwOtByF43Griae_SZiaqmiOuUIdqRMcDmgFF9b1VO8g9HAhjUhrNN6A3PPJEhFRcexqBWkYpARLWYLkab7xzOqahnaGgEMwaSCi8Ig-yT5aVsOigRKw6u2Bc9d4VR0rGxPTJRAs/s640/Outside1+flipped.jpg" width="427" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3NeAjUoF7VxyPoTGtSTy1NrzUzRXuJcQL3m_BKPCS_FlNtTxRecclwgzGlv32ioQgoO6gWvLdtuqC47CDIwuzTrueWkIUXBkvv3y2WMp3eB9vj3vmcKPgHKNwZhugvBllVehFvxwiZ8/s1600/Porch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeaXXuH1QfJJg6Qu2On_uxJx4sHBEbCtwfe4FHCAv8r7UmSMR-ExC_Ih3Szt1NnUUf26WksW9p1pL30gfpQdcJKya-nPOZMzabcbeCVbkCUWlS2ZEKlZ6jwX367nIn7IQzWxTHUZgVWI/s1600/BR2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The bay window below is in (Mrs.) Lily Little's music room, and above one of the nursery rooms. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Come warm yourself by the fire. (It took me forever to find a sofa that felt right for the era). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd0UJqshIVTMUfTP4P1OO8vjBBLxjPDTCUNWDpVOEg_GSfHbJB-XeKMINDR-Ep5tA9EgEKzFvDo2Wg63mYwappdZOgiqliiV1Jo-c34AIsJwj8_uYP_HTWpAFO-ywnQNHrKoQtACDTCA4/s1600/LRD.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd0UJqshIVTMUfTP4P1OO8vjBBLxjPDTCUNWDpVOEg_GSfHbJB-XeKMINDR-Ep5tA9EgEKzFvDo2Wg63mYwappdZOgiqliiV1Jo-c34AIsJwj8_uYP_HTWpAFO-ywnQNHrKoQtACDTCA4/s400/LRD.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> Below photo shows the phone nook. The Littles are very fortunate to have two telephones, when many people had none. (This is also where a Cathedral style radio is going to go, and where the family will gather to "listen in" to news, music and other radio shows. I needlepointed the small rug, made the curtains, and the tiny pack of Camels on the coffee table. The other railing still has to be constructed.) Note the period Morris Chair, (which has been pushed aside to accommodate the Christmas tree this week.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizW4pB3_qStVmkk4r8k-Ij0aL7SXlvhUDtAHzLyMu5ApmGwvCALkGvpoyf13VSuueLd7UtMuoagoJr2ciUPHWRKe0W1GwcdhTxi142gEtfCIAaBLWZ34MBChL0dZrurIBcDDf38Wum0nA/s1600/LR2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizW4pB3_qStVmkk4r8k-Ij0aL7SXlvhUDtAHzLyMu5ApmGwvCALkGvpoyf13VSuueLd7UtMuoagoJr2ciUPHWRKe0W1GwcdhTxi142gEtfCIAaBLWZ34MBChL0dZrurIBcDDf38Wum0nA/s400/LR2.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">The door to the right of the fireplace goes into Nathaniel Little's study. He is a music professor at the nearby college. When he comes home, he goes in here, puts on the gramophone or plays his violin, seen in case upper right, and reads the paper.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsolrLtC-vc_97WMeqLTIwy5Pn6MWEbsJCT7XOrw2QPvBZWrfmQYHzJ3MX3sLeMdPZjZW3jUimf3Yj31wfNvaMf_bm5oET9sjDvpmduvVPSDLroh9uy9pTBmqQFc1pbuYWrVKlewXeebQ/s1600/Office1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsolrLtC-vc_97WMeqLTIwy5Pn6MWEbsJCT7XOrw2QPvBZWrfmQYHzJ3MX3sLeMdPZjZW3jUimf3Yj31wfNvaMf_bm5oET9sjDvpmduvVPSDLroh9uy9pTBmqQFc1pbuYWrVKlewXeebQ/s400/Office1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">He is still waiting for the carpenter to finish the paneling on one of his walls. He has a Stickley desk. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe you can stay for dinner. If you want to help, come in the dining room, and set the table. The cloth and dishes are in the cabinet. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLkUr-cnNmzAl_KuRALXYgcSPwlJGbck-KRLetInxxHuTDR6ReR7yTU2wwm2HkBP4pTp_qWNaXyI2PLRfw8nSRTAzOmSYjL_aXOqU-DWdkSiYK2B3XP3XWUO89k2DPHGTIolfOii2Ac4/s1600/DR1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLkUr-cnNmzAl_KuRALXYgcSPwlJGbck-KRLetInxxHuTDR6ReR7yTU2wwm2HkBP4pTp_qWNaXyI2PLRfw8nSRTAzOmSYjL_aXOqU-DWdkSiYK2B3XP3XWUO89k2DPHGTIolfOii2Ac4/s640/DR1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ek-RPp8tC2LbAU9T65ZQBur8PYH22dzaWV5h0wXnpZ8kZEP5xbI5es1j7nfAQRy0Ccb88kEMdUz237cbpN__6TyE_zCT7g5SCvSYmmpTgBkyrHpEXPTZ4s1xM7L0KSw2_R4bdecRSNo/s1600/DR2+flipped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ek-RPp8tC2LbAU9T65ZQBur8PYH22dzaWV5h0wXnpZ8kZEP5xbI5es1j7nfAQRy0Ccb88kEMdUz237cbpN__6TyE_zCT7g5SCvSYmmpTgBkyrHpEXPTZ4s1xM7L0KSw2_R4bdecRSNo/s640/DR2+flipped.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">You can see Lily Little's music room beyond the end of the dining room where she gives piano lessons, takes care of her scorrespondence, and steals a minute to herself to read. (See below)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTqxm3E7NmLfYa9YW9fP4ULyjqXMmoSy7O04hhGUQ6TkXewE6pmdrvRTw0L-W0fLRsvAd__BbZXihoS8bI6N4-7S1kamiIepeTdBP4idPzRgGZn53ci2puZOKjWdcS81xnI5utoBAnvf8/s1600/Music+Morning+ROom+A.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTqxm3E7NmLfYa9YW9fP4ULyjqXMmoSy7O04hhGUQ6TkXewE6pmdrvRTw0L-W0fLRsvAd__BbZXihoS8bI6N4-7S1kamiIepeTdBP4idPzRgGZn53ci2puZOKjWdcS81xnI5utoBAnvf8/s320/Music+Morning+ROom+A.jpg" width="316" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Note the William Morris wallpaper border in dining room. The rug for this room just arrived, but is not in photo. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Lily Little is in the kitchen cooking dinner -- a turkey (which is a bit tired and scarred, since I have had it for 60 odd years!) is in the oven because when these photos were taken, it was Thanksgiving time. She is hoping to modernize this farmhouse kitchen someday, but meanwhile, it suffices. She has ordered a kitchen worktable. (The stove was a salesman sample of my husband's grandfather who sold stoves in the NC hills. His mother played with it as a child. I built the cupboards in 1981, and made the curtains.) It looks like a chocolate cake is being made on the Hoosier.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0RgJ_5FPuhAIHdSPh-Zn-A4F5RQTtJFameK2vOAJvikmRB4hyphenhyphenjT_Wf8hhGSFLVG61Sq6py5TFMOeaVaauJbUo4y5ClLLp2NAc3fIqadImuSBVPxCIy4-T4nTv9IQIqAB3-Py74mcqWo/s1600/K+2+flipped2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0RgJ_5FPuhAIHdSPh-Zn-A4F5RQTtJFameK2vOAJvikmRB4hyphenhyphenjT_Wf8hhGSFLVG61Sq6py5TFMOeaVaauJbUo4y5ClLLp2NAc3fIqadImuSBVPxCIy4-T4nTv9IQIqAB3-Py74mcqWo/s400/K+2+flipped2.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The last room on the first floor is the family breakfast room. The table is too big for it, and Lily has ordered a smaller one.The sun comes in the bay window at breakfast time. Somebody has left a game of Chinese Checkers on the table, and the remains of little Bitty's supper is there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeaXXuH1QfJJg6Qu2On_uxJx4sHBEbCtwfe4FHCAv8r7UmSMR-ExC_Ih3Szt1NnUUf26WksW9p1pL30gfpQdcJKya-nPOZMzabcbeCVbkCUWlS2ZEKlZ6jwX367nIn7IQzWxTHUZgVWI/s1600/BR2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeaXXuH1QfJJg6Qu2On_uxJx4sHBEbCtwfe4FHCAv8r7UmSMR-ExC_Ih3Szt1NnUUf26WksW9p1pL30gfpQdcJKya-nPOZMzabcbeCVbkCUWlS2ZEKlZ6jwX367nIn7IQzWxTHUZgVWI/s400/BR2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">We will give you a tour of the upper floors next time, to see the bedrooms of Minnie, Bitty, Dolly, Tad and Mr. and Mrs. Little. And also a glimpse into the children's grandparents' house, the Petits, who live just across the street. They are in the process of getting some electricity in their home, where they live with Mr. Petit's elderly Mother Grandmere, and their youngest child Connie, a flapper about to get married. Thanks for stopping by.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"> So this is where my creative side has been working this month. But there are paintings strumming in my head. Will I find time this holiday month to paint? I hope so: I have to take some new work to the Lyme (NH) gallery because they have sold the two I had there, which is nice. I also took two pieces over to the Chaffee Art Center for their Winter member's Show of Smallworks. Busy busy time of year.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-60717650996388894292011-10-23T16:23:00.000-07:002011-10-23T20:08:19.650-07:00Commissions: A Love-Hate Relationship<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As long as there have been artists trying to earn a living with their work, there have been collectors and patrons eager to commission art that speaks directly to their own tastes and preferences, and not to the artist's. For that reason, and because many artists feel a real sense of restriction when dealing with external guidelines outside their own internal creative processes, we often have a love- hate relationship with commissions.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first commission I ever had was when I was about 13. The father of children I baby sat for knew I was taking oil painting lessons, and asked me to copy a Modigliani for him. I dutifully did (and began my life-long love affair with Modi!) He in turn actually paid me money, I forget how much, certainly not much, but I was thrilled: it was my very first sale. And in high school, my boyfriend asked me to make him a painting of the woods, with a moose by a stream. And I did, for free because I loved him, and often wonder whatever happened to it after I broke up with him three years later. For my grandfather I did a man fishing in a stream which he loved and I loved making it for him.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the eighties, when I got seriously back to painting after the kids were in school, I had a very successful solo show in Newark, NJ. An acquaintance, who had bought a 36" square painting of an oversized, abstracted rose at the opening, asked me if I would make a companion for it, in the same colors. I thought about it, and realized it was not something I could do. My large roses were all painted and titled with ee cummings poetry as my muse (see example below), and came from deep within my psyche. I could not paint one to order, and so I lost a sale. </span></span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few years ago, a very close friend whose summer home we visit every year on Lake George, asked me if I would do a painting of their house which they could have back home in Virginia during the year. I said yes, and then spent the next two years suffering <u>terrible guilt</u> because <i>I could not do it. </i>I tried, over and over again, but working from the photos I took was just not working, and I honestly believe it was because the painting was not coming from inside. I finally finished it this summer, and breathed a deep, deep sigh of relief. The photo below is a bit fuzzy, but it now hangs happily in Virginia.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsgkcOuhyphenhyphen_KzozWhNbdxCaMGsIYluTt1gMmYSgOR7GgUqiyCJEkDWsvE6RFxlKqTGrHzl9v6ltfF67ghUBR3l2d1XovP7cHRhn-mOzb8BQv4p0TsgQHofKYcIGgPeKh8ZPDoCmlC_xAs/s1600/Malovany+painting2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I would LIKE to be able to do commissions, because it is a nice way to earn some extra money, AND to make your customers happy. But I find it so difficult, not only emotionally, but while technically attempting the work in the studio. It reminds me of why I did not major in art at Skidmore: I told my mother I did not want art to ever become WORK for me.<i> I wanted to keep my creation of art forever as a joy.</i> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't know if any of this makes sense to you, but it does to me. And right now I have no company coming, and no commissions due, so inbetween water aerobics, I plan to spend a lot of time in the studio this week!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-19237607244093782432011-10-01T12:54:00.000-07:002011-10-01T13:16:06.109-07:00The Disappearing Month and Disappeared Days from Long Ago.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">My readers, all 5 of you, must be wondering what happened to this blogger. <i>Life happened</i>, basically, and I found I had little time to paint, or to blog. The end of August found us, and the two Pulis, off to Lake George to visit old high school friends just the day after our wonderful 10 day Nantucket idyll with our son and family. (I do not have any of the photos from that trip on my computer.) Finally home, we cleaned up the garden, and enjoyed the end of summer, so eloquently captured in this poem.</span><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Round</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h2><h2 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">by <a href="http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,rzl4,dv,gju,4941,c32v,5u8j" style="color: black;" target="_blank">Stanley Kunitz</a></span></h2></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Light splashed this morning</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">on the shell-pink anemones</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">swaying on their tall stems;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">down blue-spiked veronica</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">light flowed in rivulets</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">over the humps of the honeybees;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">this morning I saw light kiss</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">the silk of the roses</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">in their second flowering,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">my late bloomers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">flushed with their brandy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A curious gladness shook me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So I have shut the doors of my house,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">so I have trudged downstairs to my cell,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">so I am sitting in semi-dark</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">hunched over my desk</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">with nothing for a view</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">to tempt me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">but a bloated compost heap,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">steamy old stinkpile,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">under my window;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and I pick my notebook up</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and I start to read aloud</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and still-wet words I scribbled</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">on the blotted page:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">"Light splashed..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I can scarcely wait till tomorrow</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">when a new life begins for me,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">as it does each day,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">as it does each day. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And then came Irene, which was a catastrophe here in poor little Vermont. Being high on a hill, and having a reliable generator, personally we were fine, but not our little village. Our neighbors' driveway was in the road, leaving them with a Grand Canyon-esque driveway. Homes were flooded, bridges broken. Here are some shots of our road:</span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were stranded for a few days, but before long they got one lane open on this country road with a temporary traffic light in operation. We are hoping they can fix it, and the many, many other roads and bridges in town and all over central and southern Vermont which need it before the snow flies. If Eric Cantor has his way, I guess it will not happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am so incredibly impressed by the way Vermnonters rallied together to help each other in a million ways. We relied on a town internet site and a hastily established Facebook site to find out what was going on, what roads were open, who needed help where, etc. The big excitement was when government helicopters arrived with emergency food and water for stranded Straffordites. Seeing the normally bucolic, lazy brooks, streams and the Ompoponoosuc River in a frenzied rage was astonishing. We felt as if we were living in the middle of a newsreel... and in fact, we were.<br />
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</i><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And September was a blur.</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were away until the 12th, mostly at Long Beach Island, Barnegat Light to be specific, where we have gone for the last five or six years. Going to LBI has become an homage to my past -- it is the island where I spent part of every summer from the time I was 10 until we moved to Vermont when the family oceanfront home in Loveladies was sold. Some of the best memories from my childhood and adulthood are of family times at Loveladies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">My uncles' first and second houses spoke of home to me more than anywhere else in my adult years, because I could not go to any of my other childhood homes. This one still existed, exactly as it had always been, until I was 55.</span><br />
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The vintage 50's house had pink asbestos shingles and a gleaming white roof, built after my Uncle had been to Bermuda. It was filled with the Heywood Wakefield furniture that was so popular at that time, and would be worth a fortune today. Back then, there were almost no other houses on the beach. Circa 1952.</span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"> When my Uncle Ben died and the house which he had built in front of the Pink House in 1972 was sold (and eventually torn down) my heart broke and it was years before I could bear to go back to LBI. But eventually the pull was too strong, and we found a funny little house right on the ocean to rent in Barnegat, the northernmost town on the island, and the one least spoiled by the "tear-down and build-up-a-McMansion-beach-house" mentality</span>.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Since my daughter and family always join us for at least some of the time, I guess we are building some new memories, although rather than a long meandering summer, we have only a week.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> There is no sand like the soft white sand on LBI, and nowhere else smells as good. When our grandson Nate, age 5, first got out of the car he exclaimed "I smell the ocean!" and he had to go there IMMEDIATELY. I know the feeling, oh I know the feeling. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But as the season shifts up here, and my Vermont landscape views out the window and off the decks are magically colorized, I am sure I will be doing some October work as well. I took the painting below done in another October to a show in Lyme this month. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390038741558949136.post-38086945108268316812011-08-05T09:44:00.000-07:002011-08-05T11:41:09.179-07:00Nantucket Work<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This week has been been a busy one, as I prepare some new work to take up to East End Gallery in Nantucket. Each August I bring home some which have not sold, and hand off some new work to the gallery owner. I can't say I sell a lot up there, because she only does solo shows for Nantucket residents, and these shows take up most of the space in the small gallery during the summer. But</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">she shows my work in the spring, early summer and fall into December, and I have made some nice sales during those times.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Besides the "Shallowing Waves" painting in my last post, and "In the Language of Blue and Gold" which can be seen in the right hand sidebar of this blog, I will be taking up an addition to my successful "Water's Edge series:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And this new one, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Storm Abating" which is not quite as free form as "Shallowing Waves," but hopefully presents a mood and a feeling.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I look forward to arriving on the island for a 10 day vacation with our son and his family. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There’s a reason families summer in Nantucket generation after generation: There is a sense of history, of the unchanged there in the villages and outlying roads, because after the whaling industry, which made Nantucket so affluent, tanked in the mid 1800's when oil was discovered in Pennsylvania, no one could afford to build or rebuild for over 100 years, leaving Nantucket Island and its delightful cottages and buildings and cobble-stoned thoroughfare much as it was. (This is in spite of the continued growth of </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">abundant and wonderful, albeit expensive, restaurants, shopping, and art galleries in recent decades.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Ocean and bay are wonderfully </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">swimmable, thanks to the Gulf Stream, and the open beaches, some of the most beautiful in the world, are varied and available to all --- all who can afford to be there that is. You can tell that my only negative about this magical place is the sense of entitlement about it --- it is not a place where you can own or even rent a house without money. There may be a few too many docksiders, Vineyard Vines clothing, whale pants and dyed-in-the-wool Republicans for my sensibilities, but given all the natural beauty, it is easy to ignore. I can be a hypocrite for a few weeks in order to enjoy beauty and relaxation!</span></span><br />
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</a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My son found a wonderful old true grey-shingled BEACH house (not winterized, not yuppified) about 10 years ago to rent. Everyone would not love it, because of the small, old kitchen, ancient (but I think charming!) bathrooms, time scarred natural wood wainscotted walls, and simple furnishings. It is a house where a family raised six kids, located out on Wauwinet Road where there are very few houses, very few folks on the beach, and situated right on the ocean with bay views to the other side. My family all love it, because of its location and because the house is perfect for kids, (my grandkids think of it as a second home.) Because of our Italy extravaganza in June, they are only going for 2 weeks this year, (but logged into more next year I believe) and John and I will be there for 10 days of it. (Not because, I suspect, they are dying to spend another vacation with the grandparents, but because you have to split the cost of the house: otherwise it becomes undo-able!) My daughter-in-law's parents and brother and family rent another house just down the road for one of the weeks, which makes it even more fun. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I look forward to doing some water aerobics in the ocean, communing with seagulls and my son, daughter-in-law and grandkids on the beach, sunsets over the bay on the deck, endless games of Monopoly, seafood feasts cooked on the beach, some good beach reading ... all of which makes for a perfect vacation.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Everyone makes fun of my beach chair with a roof, but it seems to be a popular place to sit--- this is my grandson Aidan, 9 here, now 10.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Granddaughter Eloise on the deck with fudgecicle at age 7, last summer</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hence they may be no blogging until we get home, after which we take off again for 3 days to Lake George!</span></span><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">These lovely summer days, when I sit down at the easel, I find myself creating paintings which are more abstract than any of my work since about 1985, when I was for a few years working in an abstract expressionist mode. An example of that era of work can be seen below.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Fragments of Actuality" 36" x 36" oil and pear paper on canvas</span></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> From there I evolved into a "you know what it is but it is done very differently" frame of mind ... see poor photo of painting of wild horse below ...</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Wild Stallion" 36" x 36" oil on canvas</span></span><i> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(sold, long ago)</span></span></i></td></tr>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">...and then somehow I became much more of a realist for many years. But recently,I have once again started reaching towards a more abstracted approach.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My current work, as with the horse, revolves around my efforts to interpret a realistic subject in a completely individual way; my approach is very intuitive and organic, usually starting with thin washes on a blank canvas, often with underlayed areas of soft, crinkled pear paper which I love. The process then evolves into the use of painting knives, paper towels, my fingers and other objects, as well as brushes, to apply the paint -- layering and layering, and then finding out what is underneath! I also am bringing with me a hardfought (and not always successful) ability to keep my mind open to what the process will reveal. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My work is still firmly rooted in, and inspired by, landscape, seascape and buildings, but I find myself departing from the college-taught theories and formalities of representational art which have guided me in the past. <i> </i><i>I guess I am trying to create something new from the familiar. </i>My work this week takes the sea and its environs as my subject because I need to take some new work up to the Nantucket gallery which represents me. With these recent seascapes, I am trying to continue and enlarge upon my “Water’s Edge” series of the past few years, and to transcend typical seascape representation. I pick my composition, often from photographs, often from memory, and try to reach the heart and soul of each particular scene or dream. I work until I feel I have a work that is absorbing, reflective, and also makes the viewer think a bit. Unlike some abstract artists, I am not really looking to disturb: I still aim for painterly interest and some kind of beauty in my work. Here is one of the very recent seascapes. I was all over the studio with this one, flinging paint about, and getting myself and the studio into very much of a mess.The glow of the sun does not show up in this photo.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When speaking about his earlier work, Eric Aho was described as “ .. at first glance, … a most accomplished landscapist, but in reality he is an abstract-expressionist using farm buildings and turbulent skies as bait for viewers. His latest oil paintings, suavely brushed and knowingly layered, are in reality artworks about art.” <i>This is where I am trying to go.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As an aside, and not exactly on point with the above discussion, I am also working on the Italian village street scenes. The one I put in this blog earlier in its initial configuration is now looking like this, and I have several more underway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO I am not abandoning the representational altogether, when it affords opportunity for wonderful colors, light, and texture such as these.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have not been in the studio for quite a while, but as well as starting a time-consuming water aerobics class this week, I also got back to work.</span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOMOL7QjY-jtn0VhbxrhkSWKKXXTvtvycdlC3jlEWEdAy8d9vI7enNMczgWMQqCjW6Qm4HRofy-DDjohe7z33TmRv6rY988xvotVutYNkFYT8nzvAesVvaetT4yudmzj7Au67V0LxodP0/s1600/And+all+the+houses+are+grey..jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Where All the Houses are Grey: 18 x 18, oil on canvas</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This painting, almost done <i>alla prima</i>, is where my head is going right now. Layered and simple, an abstracted view of bayside Nantucket ... but in my mind, it could almost be Venice as well if I eliminated the grey on the horizon and added a few suggested cupolas of Domes. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And I am beginning a series of Montefioralle street scenes, as predicted. I thought it might be of interest to see a painting with just it's first few layers. It is nowhere near completed, just in the initial stages.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Stage 1 of a Montefioralle painting, oil on canvas covered with tissue underlay, 6" x 6"</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> A woman who saw and liked my work at the Morrill show, and who is an art critic up here, has asked to come to my studio so she can write a review of my work for VermontArtzine, and on line publication. </span></span></div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> When it comes to travel, we all have our preferences. Some of us like to rough it, others like to stay in the most luxurious places they can afford. Some of us like to plan EVERY DETAIL to the nth degree, others like to wing it and just find adventures around every corner. Some like to be busy from sun up to sun down, others like to stop to smell the flowers along the way. This trip confirmed something I have been learning about myself in recent years: that as I am growing older, I am less and less enticed by cities, and more and more happy and comfortable being in the countryside. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I left the suburbs in New Jersey to move to Vermont 13 1/2 years ago, and in Vermont, I live among fields, farms, forests, animals and country lanes, unpretentious and rock solid folks. I like to explore these same things in foreign lands. Whenever possible on vacation from here on in, I want to try to avoid long lines, traffic, tourists, loud noise, exhaust, pollution and <i>stress</i> -- all part of the city scene.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That’s not to say I don’t find myself enjoying what cities have to offer on occasion. I do want to sample the atmosphere, foods, cultural attractions and tourist attractions which are offered by cities now and again. Obviously I was not going to spend two weeks in Italy and not visit the Ufizzi, see the famous piazzas and squares, stand on the beautiful city bridges and take in the river landscapes -- so I did make the effort to see Siena, Florence – both wonderful -- and ended up in Rome for our last four days as my husband had never been there. (But we opted to stay in the quieter neighborhoods of Trastevere). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But along with all the wonderful family interaction, the time I spent in our little Tuscan village of Panzano, the day trips we made to a few of the medieval hill towns and to a very peaceful monastery at Badia a Coltibuono, were the highlights of my trip. This is what I shall hold in my heart, and hopefully, transfer to my canvasses. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Below are some of my favorite shots from the medieval, walled hill town Montefioralle for future use. This was my favorite town of those we visited because it seems relatively undiscovered by tourists (San Gimignano is wonderful, but crowded with people and shops). Montefioralle is full of Kodak moments, a perfect setting for a wedding, has one good restaurant, but that is about all. No tourist spots. And it seems to be a village still lived in by normal people living normal lives. I almost felt intrusive as I wandered around the lovely little streets. </span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The start of our two week trip to Italy to celebrate my husband’s and my 70<sup>th</sup> birthdays was our two days in Venice, undeniably one of the world’s most glorious cities. I had not been to Venice since 1962, and it was my husband’s first trip to the magical city -- with it's glorious blend of water, art and romance situated so close to the Adriatic Sea. Created more than 1,000 years ago by men who thumbed their noses at the sea, and built their splendid Venetian Gothic palaces and churches on mud banks in a swampy and treacherous lagoon, it’s a true treasure of architecture, art and atmosphere. We reveled in the unique atmosphere of the canals and boats, the panoply of museums, bridges, churches and sunlit squares and everywhere, flowers. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The whole city is an extraordinary architectural masterpiece in which even the smallest building contains works by some of the world's greatest artists such as Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and others.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFjdIlOm6kJBRXfMbNOXKAi265IcMHz_Y5etg5WCk4ij5dwAoVFJQTWGwqDMl9ZCw9K9f3LzQtIrVC2iRe_p66QVmj1TR2WxSD_AWg8xow3JxpMZOMFgqafNETIm2RUBRnw5Bw1Pxx6f4/s1600/Entering+Venice+7S.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFjdIlOm6kJBRXfMbNOXKAi265IcMHz_Y5etg5WCk4ij5dwAoVFJQTWGwqDMl9ZCw9K9f3LzQtIrVC2iRe_p66QVmj1TR2WxSD_AWg8xow3JxpMZOMFgqafNETIm2RUBRnw5Bw1Pxx6f4/s400/Entering+Venice+7S.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> With only two days there, and with four grandchildren between the ages of 5 and 10 in our group, we obviously did not see and do everything. While the others climbed the Basilica di San Marco, John and I took the slow vaporetto #1 down the length of the Grand Canal enjoying long, extended view of the major waterway of the city, and took in the wonderful ambiance of Venetian life unfolding on the Grand Canal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">We stopped off at the Accademia Gallery which houses the most magnificent collection of Venetian art in the world. Over the centuries, the great masters of Venetian painting adorned the city with wonderful works imbued with light and color, a quality that has distinguished the Venetian school of painting since its origins, I am sure because the city itself is so light splashed and luminous. The collection at the Accademia Gallery illustrates the evolution and characteristics of Venetian art, including the fourteenth century Byzantine-style Madonnas and the great canvasses by Gentile Bellini and Carpaccio that record fifteenth century Venice. As my 10 year old grandson later remarked when in one of the Italian art museums, “…there are a lot of Marys and Jesuses there.”</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the most interesting works of arts at the Accedemia is Veronese’s painting which is now known as the <i>Feast in the House of Levi</i>, completed originally for the rear wall of the refectory of the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1573. The painting was originally intended as a depiction of <i>The Last Supper</i>, and was titled thusly, designed to replace a canvas by Titian that had been lost in a fire. It measured more than five meters high and over twelve meters wide </span><span style="font-size: large;">(at 42 feet long, one of the largest canvases of the 16th century),</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and was a culmination of Veronese's banquet scenes, which this time included not only the standard characters of The Last Supper, but also German soldiers, comic dwarves, and a variety of animals. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Paolo Veronese unveiled this enormous painting, it was shocking not only for its size, but also for its rather raunchy depiction of the Savior and his pals. </span><span style="font-size: large;">But as Veronese's use of color attained greater intensity and luminosity, also his attention to a narrative interplay and emotion among his beautifully rendered figures was becoming tantamount to his creations. </span><span style="font-size: large;">And here, the artist had portrayed one of the holiest of moments in the bible as a drunken banquet that conjured up, to some, paintings of Roman orgies! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, because the subject, and title, of this rather racy painting was <i>The Last Supper</i>, it was noticed by the increasingly Puritanistic powers-that-be in the Inquisition which was exerting its influence in Venice at this time. Quite simply, they had a fit over the painting, and very speedily in July of 1573, Veronese was summoned to explain the inclusion of “extraneous and indecorous details” in the painting. The church charged the painter with irreverence—and threatened to indict him on the very serious charge of heresy. Veronese explained that "we painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen."</span><b><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">House of Levi".</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We also, all ten of us, visited the <u>Doges Palace</u>, or Palazzo Ducale, an extravagant Gothic Renaissance palace that symbolizes the glory days of Venice. The Doge’s Palace, created of white limestone and pink marble, was softened by porticos, finely wrought loggias, a crenellated roof and a series of balconies by Pier Paolo and Jacobello Dalle Masegne, was the seat of the government of Venice for centuries. It looks like dessert! The system of elected doges was as singular as everything else about this very singular city, and lasted for 1000 years. As well as being the home of the Doge (the elected ruler of Venice) it was the venue for its law courts, its civil administration and bureaucracy and — until its relocation across the Bridge of Sighs — the city jail. In spite of the heat, we marveled at the Golden Staircase and ornately decorated walls and ceilings covered by works of great artists including the world’s largest oil painting, the 23x75 foot <i>Paradise </i>by Jacopo Tintoretto.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Upstairs we walked through the doge’s private rooms to the Anticollegio, where the doge and council would meet foreign dignitaries. The Anticollegio is decorated with four Tintorettos; his work and Titian’s dominate the walls, although the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci has works by our old friend the almost-heretic, Veronese; and the Sala dell’Armamento has the remains of Guariento’s fresco, <i>Paradise</i>, wrecked in the fire.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The rest of our short time in Venice, we fed the pigeons in San Marco Square, walked over the picturesque bridges, had a drink at water’s edge, and took our grandchildren for a gondola ride down the back lagoons and canals of the city, which everyone enjoyed. John and I enjoyed an elegant dinner at the Hotel Danieli, but otherwise we ate the delicious food in everyday places.</span><br />
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