Plants:
Plants, Earth and Rock:
The above painting, of a shady alcove with a bench in a flower garden, was made the summer after Freshman year, or, was it the summer after Junior year in college – I believe after Freshman year. But wonder. It was the same summer as a friend from Finland visited for quite a few weeks and she went with us to visit longtime friends. Another summer I was in Multnomah Falls/Columbia Gorge almost the entire summer, working for the Student Conservation Association. Then Junior Year abroad 1988-1989, a photography year (much black and white photography work for hobby and an art class), and upon arrival back in the US, my mother picked me up in Boston; on the drive to Grandma and Grandpa’s house, everything looked very big – large roads, trees, houses spread out. Then as my parents moved to Michigan (or already had?), I worked again for the Student Conservation Association that year (or at Court One but Court One I believe was after college) at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Senior year I took my first drawing course (since a multi-media art class in elementary school with Mrs. Lyman, in Maine that included print-making – with wood cuts, drawing with colored chalk, and working with papier mache three dimensionally), and second painting class, a class with B. Harvey. Here are two paintings from this class (intention to put both below – 5/9/2023 – one so far – Grandpa Feller’s apples – the other will be of some small rocks, and a box)
Below, the woodblock print from Mrs. Lyman and L. Lyman’s (her daughter’s) art class. For reference, they had trees around their home, and a horse, but I was not able to see a deer.
I need to remember to put a photo of the painting of roses I made on a good heavy (and so rugged) cotton paper here below – painted by the bridge in Ashland. Once upon a time, after making it, I brought it to New York City with me, dragging it around everywhere I walked, into several places including two or three galleries. One gallery kindly asked me if I would like to put it in something, but I declined, as though I much liked it, I thought it ok, and also, it was a sketch for reference to make another painting from, rather than to be displayed, and surely as a painter I intended to make many more. I have not, and the bushes might not even be there anymore. Last I saw it in my portfolios, not much worse for its NYC trip (I was there for a workshop and needed the image for a glass sculpture I was to make). Now I would be happy to display it, as well as to make further works from it by using it as a reference, as intended.
