24 January 2009

here comes the sun

 


it's been a long cold winter...
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Joni Mitchell "My Special Place"
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for De
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Tatamy, PA watercolor session

 



next to Spring House art studio below in photos
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early fiber work

 



self-taught fiber attempts mid-70s... just before meeting my textile mentor
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The Art Spirit

 



Clinton, NJ gallery showing my work after art school years.
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Green Pond Road

 



road to the skating pond...Green Pond
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Wind Gap, PA

 



summer on the farm
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Bethlehem, PA

 
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Christmas Eve

 



walking near Bethlehem leaving tracks in the snow in a landscape George Washington and Gen. Lafayette may recognize
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united web.stand

 



the bluegrass state
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America

 
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barn

 


inspiration for painting series
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Lexington KENTUCKY

 



the tobacco years
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Bushkill Spring House, Tatamy

 



My first 'formal' art lessons were held in this spring house art studio (and in a barn across the road) where Marguerite Callihan conducted weekly painting sessions. Years later she would learn from my off-loom backstrap weaving techniques where a photograph of her husband using one of my pop-sickle rigid heddle looms appeared in a local paper covering an outdoor art fair. Stone bridges along the creek remind us of the Welch immigrants who flooded the area just south of Pen Argyle where, even today, one of my two brothers lives/
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Summer of '69

 



Jack and Mary camping, Woodstock summer in Vermont
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New Jersey Shore

 
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Isle de Notre Dame

 
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Paris evening

 
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All in the Family

 



Paris
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Napoleon Bonapart's tomb

 


The marble used in the sarcophagus of Napoleon is the color of the moon in a total eclipse...I call it a deep Tomato Soup Red
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view from the zeppelin docking tour de force

 



Paris, view from the tower.
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Paris, FR

 



Paris, City of Light
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Thanks Paul

 



Great place, good company: Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso...et al
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