Relationships are fascinating to me. How we manage to connect with another at all is sometimes more than I can wrap my mind around. When we are young, we trust pretty easily……………Life teaches us to be more cautious. When I think about what a relationship with another person is, whether it is a friendship or […]
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Making Our Way Home – 24×24 Thoughts on art… ART can decorate our homes. GOOD ART compliments our couches and our walls. We can live with good art…GREAT ART reflects our lives, our souls. It challenges us to think, makes us cry for joy or relief or compassion…Great art feeds us, without it our lives are
WEEPING CHERRY (TEARS OF JOY) 24X18 – ACRYLIC ON BOARD Tears of Joy I grew up in a family of women who talked freely and men who worked hard and spoke very little. There were lots of stories told around the kitchen table. Some, I have already shared, like when my sister, Kit, and cousin Scott ran away
AND WHAT IS LOVE? There is possibly a gypsy living inside of me. And What is Love? – 36×30 – paper on board In the late 60’s and early 70’s, my 3-year old son Todd and I lived in our Volkswagen bus, which my carpenter friend remodeled for us. He built a storage box large enough
SOMEWHERE IN MEMORY There was a lot of story and fantasy in those early years. My parents both told us true stories of their parents. A favorite of mom’s was when her mother fell in love with her father. Worthy was his name. He was handsome, strong, loving, and he rode into Helma’s life on
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GRANDMA HELMA’S HOME My name is Dorsey. Dorothea is on my birth certificate. Dorothea was the daughter of my Dad’s namesake: Peter Livingston Edwards. After giving me the name, he called me Dorsey. I can count on both hands the number of times I have been called Dorothea by anyone. “Dorsey” suits me. I have always liked it, partly because
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PATIENCE – MIXED ON BOARD – 32X40 Sometimes, I wonder what I love more…image or story. If this were a race, it would be close. I understand and value the power of both. Image is something that comes into my imagination and holds on there until I put my hand to it. The image then, has a life of
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PATIENCE LOVES TRUE – 12X12 – acrylic on board It is another day. Another day in which to live and breathe and have our being! I love those words. Do you ever just fall in love with a word? Everyone is different. Our favorite words can say so much about us. One of my favorites is forsythia. I LOVE the
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Life is Art Life is art….just think about breathing…or about getting dressed in the morning. Early in my childhood, my dad and my sister both encouraged me to think beyond the surface of things. Thinking has turned everyday moments into amazing fantasies…..One moment at a time. This moment I am in holds so much interest. I am literally bursting!
WHERE I WANT TO BE This is an image we used at a recent innovat8e conference in Franklin. There were 30+ participants, mostly professionals: Our exercise was to look at the painting for a few moments and write our impressions as if having fallen into the adventure of its imagery. Here are a few of the stories: —————————
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