My Archival Artwork

On November 30, 2004, a fire started in our barn that eventually consumed it and the farmhouse that was attached, including my art studio that contained a lifetime of artwork.  Miraculously, no one was injured.   Equally miraculously, my step son was able to save images from a fire damaged pc hard drive.  My husband and I have rebuilt our farm, not on the same location.  Since the original farm had once before burned down on that spot and was rebuilt there in 1895, we thought it too unlucky to test fate a third time.  Therefore, we built up the hill with a tremendous view of Blue Mountain.

What follows are images of my artwork no longer in existence, but preserved on film downloaded into that poor surviving hard drive, reproduced here to begin a frame of reference.  I had been trained to teach art K-12, but became a potter and a painter, then a weaver.

 I had abandoned my art after the fire while in pursuit of basically rebuilding our lives until last year when I  purchased some brushes and oil paints to begin again by capturing a wintery Blue Mountain.

CERAMICS

"WARRING ANGELS" Oil on Canvas 7'x4'  1972

"MY SISTER DIANE"  Oil on Panel 10"x 16"  2001

"SPRING ORCHARD" Watercolor 2003

"Hibiscus Botanical" Watercolor  2002

Here I am in my studio just months before the fire took everything.  I particularly like this photo because it shows a watercolor portrait that I had done on an easel behind me.  I had been working on copying oil paintings from the Athenaeum's Gallery in St.Johnsbury, Vt.  by painting them in watercolor instead of oils.  I found transposing medium to be challenging and was happy with the results.  Alas, those paintings, too, are gone.