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Summer 2011
Travelling to Denver, Golden, Taos and Santa Fe I realized how fortunate we are to have abundant water here in Maryland. Cool refreshing water during this hot summer.
The Denver Art Museum with its stunning architecture. The exhibit of Clay being used in many unusual ways was mind expanding.
My first visit to the Kirkland Collection, where our eyes were delighted by so many art deco and art nouveau works, felt like richness in texture and color. Some colorfully opaque vases of Van Briggle Pottery, Colorado Springs are housed there- most memorable to me flowing in sensuous form.
Then Golden and Mt Evans were awe-inspiring. Shaggy white goats greeted us. Painting those tall mountains, the purple majesty and sweeping angles were beautifully challenging.
The drive to Santa Fe was spacious. It was the first welcome rain there in quite some time. For miles we stared at the strongest rainbow complete with violet.
Each turn was a new painting, speaking deeply. Reaching for my higher level of intuition and freedom. Santa Fe Plaza was lively and lovely. Manitou Gallery exhibited watercolor/pastels up front which was a treat since most galleries there seem to think that they belong in the back corner.
I will return to Taos to visit to the Fechin Museum, more galleries and explore the pueblo towns. Leonard Gallery had simply elegant adobe furniture and a wonderful conversation.
Since my return, inspirations are colorful skies and wide spaces. Knowing where to find the beauty and light, creating with spontaneity and love. Trying to understand oils and pastel, the values of sunsets, sunrises, mountainscapes , ocean and marsh.Organizing and meditating on this full life.
