I bumped into my old blog....untended for several years. I'm not sure I know why I stopped blogging. Life gets in the way. But I once enjoyed doing it, as well as and sharing my art.

 The current show in Litchfield reminded me how I like sharing about my work. Listening to and talking with the folks who attended my opening was a particular delight. 

I am on my way to the gallery this afternoon with some additional 4"x4" paintings that were requested. I will make some photographs and publish them either here or on my website.

Kindly stay tuned......

In my "studio" (aka corner) there's been some experimenting going on.........with new ways of mixing and manipulating my paint.  Sometimes I thin it to an ink-like consistency. The painting below comes from that magical somewhere between a childhood greenhouse memory and a victorian conservatory I saw in a dream.

The painting makes me happy. 

I call it Flowering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's been a while between postings. Here are a few new paintings. I will be taking some to Otis Library in Norwich on November 17th along with some of my limited edition wooden Christmas ornaments for their Holiday Sale. I also have work at Gallery On The Green in Canton and The Artists' Path in Litchfield.

                                                                       
                                                                          Psalm

                                                                          30x40





Then I went from kind of big paintings to pretty small ones.............it's fun to switch it up.

                                                                 In The Beginning

                                                                           6x6

                                                  

                                            
                                                                    Sail Away 


                                                                        5x7

                                                                 Beach Stars

                                                                
                                                                      5x7

 

 

Sea Current

 

5x7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                             Morning Stars Together

                                                                        5x7

                                                                     The Shepherd


                                                                          5x7

 

 

 

Meteor Shower

 

5x7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

                                                                  Pond Autumn


                                                                         6x6

 

 

 

 

 

The 30 x 40 painting I call A Poem God Made is hanging in The Artists' Path Gallery in Litchfield. I inadvertantly deleted the July posting of it. Here it is again............

My last posting was two months ago! I have been painting (but making photographs of my work....not so much). A week at Cape Cod reminded me I have salt water in my veins. Days on the beach plunked the idea for this next painting into my head. Like A Poem God Made, it is 30 x 40 inches. While I  was working on it, I realized I'm really happiest when I have one of these " imaginary-landscapey-primitives" on the easel. (Which I do right now!)

                                                            The Fullness of the Sea

Every morning after I read from The Oswald Chambers Daily Devotional Bible and pray, I write in a journal. This is what I wrote on February 12, 2011................



It is not a coincidence that certain readings appear at certain times. Or perhaps certain readings just zing into my understanding when God knows my understanding is ready--like planting. Jesus talked a lot about planting, seeds, and soil.

I think now about waiting for the ground to be unfrozen and kind of warm enough. Certain plants are cold crops and can be planted in very early Spring. Cabbage for one. And radishes. Peas go in early too. My dad used to plant peas on Saint Patrick's Day--but that was in warmer Westport.

Anyway....my mind soil and my heart soil have been thawing......thawing. So God is placing the seeds of His Perfect Word into me. My visual self imagines a finger from heaven pushing, oh so gently, on each seed as it is placed on the surface. I should paint that! The strongest hand in the universe planting the tiniest seed with gentleness beyond comprehension. O, dear God, thank You!






Just about one year later.....this painting happened.

                               Plant Your Word Down Deep

                                                                      16x20


                                                                      $100.

And my journal entry continued..................


My most favorite job in the greenhouse was planting seed trays and cell packs--bazillions of them! Sometimes a sprinkle, but often one seed was put in each cell. And I loved looking each day to see what had sprouted. I was literally touched at the sight of a yellow-green seedling half in and half out of the potting soil---pushing a weensy clump of soil above its head so it could get to the light.

All this reminiscing is helpful to underscore what I am experiencing daily in the readings from the Bible, from Oswald Chambers and T. Austin Sparks, and other daily Christian readings. I am not surprised, but I do acknowledge how very aware I have become. How I am growing. Thanks be to God!






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More paintings coaxed onto this blog by Moore. The reason she gets to "coax" me is because she has just created a beautiful book--
                                  Latebloomers Volume 1: Claudia Wood Rahm.
Which may be ordered during my Warren Library exhibit --March 10th through April 14th.
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I have already posted a lot of the paintings I made since the Litchfield show in September. Here (I think) are all the rest.

Pentecost

18 x 24

$250

                                   
                                              The Darkness Tries To Hide


                                                                 16 x 20

                                                                     $150








                                   

                                           High Places

                                                                   30 x 40

                                               $ 300

                                         

                                                    Green Cathedral

                                         18 x 24

                                             $200

Tidal Pool II

24 x 30

$300

Sing Halleluia, Come On Get Happy!

18 x 24

$ 200

Glimpse

11 x 14

$ 100

It's Raining

12 x 12

$75.

Sold

Jumble

8x10

$ 75.

The Goldfinch Moon

11 x 14

$ 100.

Sold

Relationship

(Four 5x7" paintings)


$100/4