Two New Pieces 2010

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Dear Everyone:

I have two new pieces to show

you.

The first is my wallflower

series. The term wallflower

refers to being personally

sidelined by illness.

In this piece I use my own

photograph of a dahlia as a backdrop.

Laid the backdrop on a horizontal

surface like a table or desk,

scattered fresh cut flowers

across the image and photographed it.

The yellow flowers beckoned to me

at the grocery store florist section
and this dahlia backdrop spoke to

me for this piece. The yellow flowers

glowed like sunshine.

The wallflower images are

shown in a triptych with some

text. The text is from a recent

photograph of a storefront with

text covering the surface of the

window.

The second piece is a collage

using mostly my own photographs.

I will be taking some art courses

this fall which teach collage

so I am looking forward to learning

more.

Hope you enjoy these images.

Helen.

Celestial collage 2009

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I have been wishing to use these
colours together since I used
them yesterday in a piece
I haven't posted yet.



The flesh tone of the scroll shapes
is of particular interest as is the
pink and coral of the rose.



Hope that you enjoy this image.



Have an enjoy-the-build-up
to-Christmas kind of day.

Helen.

Calcutta collage 2009

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This image came to me a couple of

months ago and I have been waiting to

execute it.

The photograph is my own of a dahlia

from a local public garden setting.

The woman's face is of a

model in India Vogue.

Hope that you enjoy this image.

Have a lavender-and-silk

romantic kind of day.

Helen.

Muse collage

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Just playing around with a collage of my muse.

Have a be-creative-if-you-possibly-can

kind of day.

Helen.

More spring inspiration

Two spring images (above).

The birch tree collage combines folk art painting

and collage and was completed last year.

The iris picture is simple with appealing colours.

Below is a shot of a property adjacent to a garden
I was invited to photograph by the owner.
I find the juxtaposition of the harsh wall and window
with the delicate hyacinths in multiple colours to be
a pleasing if somewhat edgy composition.

More thoughts on spring and beauty from Freeman Patterson excerpted from

"the garden" (p.17):

"By late winter and very early spring I not only enjoy the flowers blooming in my sunroom, I need them. My sense of well-being depends on having plants living, growing, and blooming around me, especially when there are none flowering out of doors.

We grow plants, especially flowering plants, in our gardens,greenhouses and windows because they are beautiful. Beauty never requires justification, because it balances the ugliness, hurtand sorrow that are present in every human life to a greater or lesser degree.

Without beauty as inspiration and refuge, our deprived souls grow hard and cold, and often we transfer, or project, our unacknowledgedsuffering onto others, especially those with whom we live and work.

Beauty is invariably a positive factor, an enriching presence, a healing influence. It is true in music, painting and dance, of clouds in the skyand birds singing in the light of dawn ,of flowers, even humble geraniums in kitchen windows."

Have a happy-to-finally-be-spring-see-the beauty- kind of day.

Helen.