Maine Lake

 Being by a Maine lake 

on a breezy August day is beautiful, yes.

But the movement of rippling water,

dancing leaves & clouds shifting

also fills the body & soul with great energy.

Being by a Maine lake

on a cloudy August day 

makes you want to run & shout & swim & twirl,

the way you did when you were a child.

Dancing Sunflowers

 I can't seem to get enough of them...

They call down to

 me, a humble, tiny human...

They dance in festive costume. 

They sing, "Look at us!" 

I am in love with them.

Gift of Sunflowers

It was a time of Celebration,

marked by a surprise gift of flowers.

Happy, Thoughtful Sunflowers.

Art in the Park

 The above photo is from my display at Art in the Park, 2011. This year I had nowhere near the variety. Most of the above had sold, & this year I've been working in some other directions. I went this year to visit my old home & friends. I did sell some works, and it's always a delight to know that they make people happy. I loved seeing my friends and it was fun to meet some new folks too!

Thanks, Portland folks for the visits! 

See you again soon, I hope!

Landscape?

Watercolor, 3 X 4 inches

It might have started out as a landscape...

Meditations on Color

I'm wandering down paths filled with jewels of Color! 

I play in layered fields of Color! Gone for now are the small 

ink landscapes (though they will be there Saturday at

Art in the Park, Mill Creek, South Portland.)

An earlier journey into Color.

Epiphany by Robert Natkin, acrylic on canvas.

 This painting is from Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations which  serendipitously jumped out at me from a bookshelf at the library the other day. Her meditations are all on fine art paintings. In the chapter, "Meditation on Silence", she writes about Natkin's painting:

"Only the abstract artist can attempt to show us light in itself, free from any material context. This is pure silence, the experience removed from the concrete & celebrated as a transforming peace. Epiphany is a Greek word meaning manifestation, a revelation of glory. We are not meant to understand Natkin's picture, any more that we are meant to intellectualize during our silence..."