"The artist," how
nice that sounds! Thanks to my children, who have
given me this website as mothers day gift, "the artist" is
truly international!! I am an American but have lived and taught school
abroad (Austria, Persia, Abu Dhabi, India and France) for the past
30 years. I have painted, sketched, ridden horses and motorcycles
and jeeps and camels, hiked, visited different cultures, sailed, eaten
all kinds of food, developed many different and exotic musical
appreciations, meditated, studied eastern philosophy, and raised three
wonderful children.
As fate would have it, when a friend suggested that we take
drawing and painting classes together, I agreed that I would love to do
that. It would make up for the fact that I turned down a scholarship to
an art school in favor of becoming a teacher. She organized it - and we
encouraged each other to go to classes when we were tired after a full
day of teaching school and would have preferred to go home and relax We
studied with Bertrand Lallemand-Legendre, a respected Paris
watercolorist and author of a book about a particular method of
transparency and the layering of color in watercolor painting. It was a
bit more demanding than I had originally intended, but it was just what
I needed to get me going. And I began to love it! I have shown at
exhibitions here in Paris, sold paintings at auctions, received
commissions for custom paintings and I am represented in a gallery in
Cape Cod. I am looking forward to my imminent retirement so that I will
have more time to paint.
Following are some recent photos of the artist in my favorite guise
as "intrepid traveler" and "Omi".
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