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I’ve just finished reading a book called Clara and Mr.Tiffany by Susan Vreeland and so it was fun to see several panels of Tiffany Glass exhibited on display when I visited the Metropolitan Museum in N.Y.C. last week. From the book I learned alot about the delicate process of “painting” with glass shards and also about the women who designed many of the […]
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“What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself~life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.” ~WILLA CATHER~ from “The Song of the Lark”
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I’ve always been drawn to Russia. I’m easily pulled into Russian novels, I love Russian Ballet and Dr. Zhavigo is one of my favorite movies. Books by Anton Chekov and Leo Tolstoy are on my bedside table so that I can pick them up to read before drifting off to sleep at night . I […]
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This painting by Caleb Stone hangs over the fireplace in our living room. It’s one of my favorite pieces of Art. Caleb was my mentor as I began to explore oil paints back in the 90’s. Several of his landscapes that we have collected are displayed throughout our home. Each time that I look at the paintings I feel […]
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Ten years ago when I still owned and ran my shop “Eliza Grays Goods” I have to admit that I was a bit stressed at times! My boys were twelve and ten years old and my husband was traveling alot for business. I was trying to do it all…painting, parenting, practicing Yoga, and more. That’s when I […]
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“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness” Each morning I sit and stare at the sky and the horizon for awhile before I begin my day. Maybe it’s because I am a painter or maybe […]
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“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike.” ~ John Muir Walked for an hour on the beach both today and yesterday. Breathing the ocean air was just what I needed especially after such a long stretch of bad weather . Being near the […]
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My neighbor Andrea who is an impressive landscape designer cut these branches of forsythia from one of her bushes to bring to me so that I could have a preview of Spring . Their sunny color in our kitchen has given me hope after a very long couple of weeks of winter weather and […]
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