Home Again

"Shelter" 

24x30

oil on canvas

available for delayed sale

(Wrought Iron arch is at the entrance 

to the Poet's Garden in Highland Park in Rochester, NY.)

Illuminations is changing its art and my friend Barb and I picked up the show today, with the pink chair itself, the booklet with the stories, the board with the love notes and positive affirmations written by so many that the post-its are piled up high. I will share some of this in the next few posts. In the meantime, the entire show is wrapped safely and is in my studio. The next public viewing will be in August. I am taking the work to "Art in the Barn" in Cushing, Maine the weekend of August 10-12. The rest of the month I will have it on display in the Scala Art Center. In September it will go to another hospital, Hudson Valley Hospital in the Peeksvill area near New York City, with more to come after that. I will keep you updated on the shows progress.

If you have a local venue that would like an art show during June and/or July, please contact me. I am also available for presentations on the story.

Shelter

Location: The Poet's Garden, in Highland Park, Rochester, NY

"Shelter" 24x30 oil on canvas

I live too far from my home town to have been much help during my mother and father’s aging issues and final illnesses. My sister Georgie has been the rock and center of the family, the guard dog if something threatens, the news gatherer and communicator, and the warm home we gather in when we are together to celebrate. She has put in countless hours and more energy than anyone has in order to be there for our parents. This piece honors her work on behalf of Mom. It depicts The Poet’s Garden, part of Highland Park in Rochester, NY. Mom and I both loved the Poet’s Garden. It is a wonderful woodland setting with poems carved in the benches and tall trees and lush green. When my husband and I took our summer trip to Rochester, we went to the garden to take photographs. It was raining, a soft misty summer rain. I was taken with this scene, where my sister held Mom’s pink umbrella under the wrought iron archway at the exit. Shelter here is represented at three levels: The shelter of the massive trees and the ironwork; the shelter of the umbrella, but mostly, the security that Mom had because she was sheltered by Georgie against anything that would harm her.

Mom and I in Highland Park in the spring of 2008. This area is known for magnolias and is just outside the poet’s garden.