City and Garden III 2010

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Dear Everyone:

I continue my series on urban

shots.

For this set of photos I went downtown

and sat at a busy intersection

taking shots. These candid

photographs are the result.

Hope you enjoy this work.

Helen.

City and Garden II 2010

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Dear Everyone:

Continued shooting dahlia

in the Halfiax Public Gardens.

As well, returned to take

candid shots of street

photography downtown.

Hope you enjoy these images.

I am rather pleased with them.

Helen.

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.