Dahlia portrait II 2010

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Dear Everyone:

Here is a second folk art painting

of a dahlia from my own

photoreference.

I like painting from my own

photos. It is hard to improve

upon nature and it avoids

copyright issues.

Hope you enjoy this work.

Helen.

Dahlia portrait I 2010

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Dear Everyone:

It is a tradition to shoot

the dahlias at the Halifax Public

Gardens each fall.

This specimen had a lovely

colour scheme of pink and orange.

I used the shot as a photoreference for

a folk art painting.

I hope that you enjoy this

work.

Helen.

Downtown Another Look 2010

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Dear Everyone:

More shots in my series of downtown
images.

Particularly like the shots

of the house with the

peeling plaster. The yellow

door is also striking.

Hope that you enjoy these

images.

Helen.

Clemente revisited 2010

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Dear Everyone:

Saw 2 Francesco Clemente paintings

in the October isse of House Beautiful

mounted on a wall in a dining room.

The interior designer is a friend

of Clemente's.

Watercolours of horses they are

very striking.

Clemente resides in New York,

Italy and India. He was born in

Naples, Italy in 1952. He travelled

to India at the age of 19 years

and developed an interest in

Hinduism and Buddhism which

shows up in his work.

He has said that he is a a painter

by default as he didn't wish to

do or be anything else.

Clemente describes painting

as something he does and if not

he gets physically sick.

He sees it partly as manual

labour.

He reports that he may not

have put forward his best

signature work yet out of

a sense of procrastination.

He did collaborate with

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel

Basquiat during the years

they were productive
(and alive) in the late 1970's.

He says that his peer's

opinion of his work means more

to him than the public as his

peers will be with him late

in life whereas the public may

not be. There is more permanency

with peers.

Hope you enjoy

this startling work.

Helen.

City and garden 2010

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Dear Everyone:

Some recent shots.

Some of the Halifax Public Gardens

and some of downtown.

I particularly favour the shot

of the wicker chairs on the porch.

I also like the shot of the vibrant

light illuminating the pink flower

beds in the Gardens.

Enjoy!

Helen.

Downtown chic 2010

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Dear Everyone:

Returned downtown at 7:00 a.m.

in the morning to capture more

shots. It was peaceful and quiet

for the most part.

Really pleased with these

images. Hope you enjoy them.

Helen.

Contemplation 2010

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Dear Everyone:

I find Buddhism attractive

because it is contemplative.

I find gazing upon the

face of the buddha to be soothing.

Here are some buddhist images.

Helen.

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.

Downtown horses 2010

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Dear Everyone:

I grew up with horses.

My younger sister has a horse farm

in adulthood. She is a veterinarian

so this is a perfect set-up for her.

Whenever I go downtown

I check to see if the horses

are out at this stables

and they were this day.

After, a rocky start

where they all walked away

to see an employee on a

cigarette break they

wandered back in sight

and I got some good shots.

Hope you enjoy these images.

Helen.