I live in rural New Brunswick which provides most of the subject matter of my paintings. I have a three-wheeled bicycle with a large basket on the back where I can store my paints, a chair and a table and anything else needed. When I am painting, I am in a world of pure concentration. My goal is to create spontaneous, balanced and authentic works of art with the hope that people who see my art will feel the same kind of pleasure that I do.
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
Lizzie and Albert (circa 1915), Acrylic Collage, 10 x 10
Relating your family history in paintings as you are doing is wonderful and dramatic. I am very excited about what you are doing. Keep up this process. I am eagerly waiting for each new post.
Thnaks, Diana. It's a strange process because I am beginning to realize just how little attention I paid to the stories my family told. I only remember such sketchy details and can only imagine faintly the emotional content the stories carried. I wish I had listened better.
Yes, the stories. And how wonderful to be an artist and actually bring them to life in paint. I'm grateful to my sister for nurturing and passing on our family's stories in her genealogy work. She has written down volumes of them, and also collected oral histories on tape.
Martha, how fortunate you are to have such a good chronicler in your family! To have the histories on tape would be wonderful too. I can only hear my mother's voice in my head and sometimes in my own ways of expressing certain things.
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Relating your family history in paintings as you are doing is wonderful and dramatic. I am very excited about what you are doing. Keep up this process. I am eagerly waiting for each new post.
Thnaks, Diana. It's a strange process because I am beginning to realize just how little attention I paid to the stories my family told. I only remember such sketchy details and can only imagine faintly the emotional content the stories carried. I wish I had listened better.
Yes, the stories. And how wonderful to be an artist and actually bring them to life in paint. I'm grateful to my sister for nurturing and passing on our family's stories in her genealogy work. She has written down volumes of them, and also collected oral histories on tape.
Martha, how fortunate you are to have such a good chronicler in your family! To have the histories on tape would be wonderful too. I can only hear my mother's voice in my head and sometimes in my own ways of expressing certain things.
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