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Happy New YEAR!
How are you doing? What’s new?
Are you speeding headlong into this New Year with plans, projects and a heart full of promise? Or are you easing gently into the year with thoughts of reflection?
Perhaps you’re practicing stillness, which also requires a sense of commitment and courage.
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I am all of the above, with exciting creative projects in the works, patience practice, stillness, and gratitude.
Not one to make resolutions, I believe every day holds promise of beginnings and growth. Yet this month does mark special new beginnings and a return to activities I love, while my eyes continue to heal from eye surgery. It’s incredible to observe the world, with new eyes. It will be baby steps as I go, and I’m pleased to share this new creative journey with you.
Newly completed “Moonlight” Study an 8×10 in oil, is the first painting I have created without visual aid.
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This first piece has personal significance. The vista is the view from my parents home, with the pine trees they planted towering above the lake. I remember the evening so well, standing on the surrounding deck, drinking in the quiet whisper of dusk.
I have been reading books on mystical fairies, grand forests, and science books about trees. I am fairly certain these have influenced this new painting in progress. It is a large painting I had temporarily set down sideways and discovered something new. It’s exciting to be tackling this vision come to life.
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If this is the year you infuse your home with handmade vibrant, life affirming art, please let me know if I can help. I have a great stock of inventory available for purchase in several sizes.
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Even if you aren’t into collecting original work, or collecting right now, please still drop me a line, let me know you are, and what’s new for you in 2022.
In gratitude, d