18 x 24″, oil on Masonite, 2012
It was a long and fraught winter, with annoying bouts of vertigo that often stopped me completely. Earlier, I had committed to a charity auction, so most of my upright time was spent getting a small end table painted and presentable for the Community Warehouse Chair Affair.
However, as the vertigo lifted, I went back to the studio, where I had odd bits and pieces of paintings from Pine Creek left to finish.
The two Pine Creek Gorge paintings (above and below) were begun on a foggy, rainy afternoon, on-site in Pennsylvania, and soothed in the Oregon studio; both were started at the Bradley Wales lookout, just over the hill from where my mother spent some of her most memorable moments of childhood.
18 x 24″, oil on Masonite, 2012
When I’m recovering from one of the prolonged bouts of vertigo, and have no new large projects to pursue, I sometimes dive into abstract or semi-abstract work. Some of what I did in January and February 2013 doesn’t precisely fit the Pine Creek Green landscape theme but a couple of small pieces seemed to come out of bits of PA left in my psyche.
12 x 16″, oil on Masonite, 2012
10 x 20, mixed media, 2013
10 x 20″, mixed media, 2013
The two large canvases that I began in the back yard at Cedar Pines hung in the living room for me to ponder while I lay on the couch, and finally were rehung in the studio to be worked on further. They deserve their own post if only in honor of their size. –June
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10 responses to “Paintings from Pine Creek: Issue 3”
Hmmmm – leaning towards Monet.
I thought it was the greens, but you noted the meshing of the colors, Barbara. This partly is a result of the glazing that I was doing — I was doing it to the canvas pieces, but along the way, I kept using the left-over transparent paint on the masonite boards. And before that, I was working on Matisse, on the little side-table? Go figure!
June
These are wonderful. “Rain on Pine Creek Gorge from Bradley Wales” is in a palette that would be perfect in my bedroom…now to save coins so I can be ready to snatch up one of your beautiful works. And, “Somehow Pine Creek 1”; well it, too, capture my attention. Your work with paint is making leaps into the world of fantastic; what a thrill it is to follow along as you expand your creative endeavors. Kristin
Thanks, Kristin. The palette is a bit strange, but that’s what it wanted to be. Sometimes I just have to give in to the paint instead of struggling with it:-) I too was pleased with the funny abstracts — they are based on various materials, but as Jer said, they too looked like Pine Creek.
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I always like your abstract work, June.
Thanks, Sheila. The abstracts come willy-nilly, and are much less a product of conscious thought or planning or seeing. As such, they feel conjured out of nothingness –or everything:-)
Which, I suspect, is why I like them so much. The real June bubbling unhindered to the surface!
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Somehow Pine Creek 1 and 2 are stunning. Brava, June
Your sort of painting, Clairan — mine too, to admire, but much less often to produce. Interesting conundrums. Or maybe I’m just not old enough yet:-)
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