Story behind Mind as Spacious as the Sky (fourth row, center)
I was looking for things to distract me when Covid began as I was quarantined in my senior community apartment building. So, I started taking an online zoom meditation class that one of my fellow residents told me about. It is a wonderful sangha with the fantastic teacher, Mark Coleman, of Sausalito, California. Mark is a great meditation teacher and offers workshops on meditation. His site is https://markcoleman.org. People from all over the world zoom in at 7:30 am California time Mondays through Fridays. Mark likes to recite beautiful poetry, sometimes his own, as we meditate, and he also recites calming, graphic phrases. One day, one of the phrases that he recited was “mind as spacious as the sky.” An image popped into my head: clouds floating in Mark’s forehead. Hence, the picture. I wanted to present the painting to him in a striking way. Somehow, I managed to load the picture into the virtual background of the zoom room during one of our sessions. And it happened to be on his birthday so it became a birthday present to him. I have since sent him the original.
I was looking for things to distract me when Covid began as I was quarantined in my senior community apartment building. So, I started taking an online zoom meditation class that one of my fellow residents told me about. It is a wonderful sangha with the fantastic teacher, Mark Coleman, of Sausalito, California. Mark is a great meditation teacher and offers workshops on meditation. His site is https://markcoleman.org. People from all over the world zoom in at 7:30 am California time Mondays through Fridays. Mark likes to recite beautiful poetry, sometimes his own, as we meditate, and he also recites calming, graphic phrases. One day, one of the phrases that he recited was “mind as spacious as the sky.” An image popped into my head: clouds floating in Mark’s forehead. Hence, the picture. I wanted to present the painting to him in a striking way. Somehow, I managed to load the picture into the virtual background of the zoom room during one of our sessions. And it happened to be on his birthday so it became a birthday present to him. I have since sent him the original.
Tom Thumb’s Blues,
In Honor of Bob Dylan’s 80th Birthday, May 24, 2021 watercolor and graphite, 5 x 7; Card © 2021. |
Bunnies Frolicking in a Springtime Landscape,
Inspired by Aaron Copeland’s Appalachian Spring, June 25, 2021 watercolor, 5 x 7; Card © 2021. |
Landscape of Audition
March 26, 2021 Sold to the artist's audiologist, April 2021, watercolor 5 x 7; Card © 2021. |
Accepted into the virtual section of the juried exhibition, "Women in Abstraction,” Newton, Massachusetts, June 17- July 31, 2021
Figure in a Landscape April 19, 2021; watercolor 5 x 7; Card © 2021. |
Strawberry Fields Forever
for John Lennon’s 80th birthday
October 9, 2020; Sold to a dear friend of the artist, May 2021, watercolor, 5 1/2 x 7; Card © 2021. |
Ballad of the Poor Child
Song by A. Eggie & I. Dement January 8, 2021 watercolor 7 x 5 1/2; Card © 2021. |
Mind as Spacious as the Sky, May 2020,
watercolor on yupo paper, 5 1/2 x 7; Card © 2021. |
Floating in Confusion, 1978,
colored pencils, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; Card © 2021. |
Blueberry Hill,
In Honor of Fats Domino’s 93rd Birthday on February 26, 2021,
watercolor and gouache, 4 7/8 x 6 3/4 Card © 2021. |
Friends, 1978,
colored pencils, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; Card © 2021. |
Three Trees Ablaze in Autumn, 2018,
Poster paints,
4”x 8 1/2"; Card © 2022.
Poster paints,
4”x 8 1/2"; Card © 2022.