Beauty and The Beach…

July 1, 2011

I’ve been taking late afternoon walks on the beach that transport me to a Carribean Island without leaving Ipswich. There have been soft balmy breezes …winds just strong enough to fill the sails of the boats coasting by.   Sitting  on a large boulder watching the ultramarine waters capped with white waves  puts me in a meditative state…a place that’s difficult [...]

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Two Barns…Two Days…Vermont

June 29, 2011

Two days in Vermont just made me want more.  Motoring through the mountains and watching the cotton candy clouds drip across the tips of the hills in the early morning made me want to pull over and set up my easel!
A few years ago I spent an entire week exploring Southern Vermont with my brushes…no [...]

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Filling up with Stillness…

June 14, 2011

“When our mind grows still, we find within us an unfailing source of supply.”
~ Swami Paramananda

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~ART IN THE BARN~

June 5, 2011

This is one of three paintings that I’ll be dropping off for the “Art in the Barn ” Exhibit in Essex,Ma. this coming week…always a fun and diverse show.
 
 

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Getting Real…

May 29, 2011

Staying at the  Camelback Inn Resort in Scottsdale Arizona was like visiting another planet. A planet called Paradise. Maybe some people would disagree but living in an unreal world can be very healthy…especially when you’re coming from a place called New England where the Spring that you longed for all winter was nothing more than a [...]

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Every day is beautiful…

May 14, 2011

 “EVERY FLOWER AND EVERY TREE AND EVERY ROOT ARE ANNUAL PROPHETS SENT TO AFFIRM THE FUTURE AND CHEER THE WAY.”  ~Henry Ward Beecher
There have been alot of gray and green days this May… but even when the sun isn’t shining the light of plush pink flowering trees lifts my spirits.
I’ve actually decided  that the blossoms are [...]

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One Pink Flower…

May 3, 2011

“KEEP YOUR LOVE OF NATURE, FOR THAT IS THE TRUE WAY TO UNDERSTAND ART BETTER.”
 ~VINCENT  VAN GOGH

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~ A Painting and a Poem … Springtime ~

April 20, 2011

 

  Lines Written in Early Spring…by William Wordsworth
I heard a thousand blended notes,  While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind  .
To her fair works did Nature link the human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think what man [...]

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