Painting collection

Sea Watchers Jamie Wyeth

It is past the middle of January . Time marches on and waits for no one,  I stand and watch as it blows by and in the cloud of dust are .my lost memories of just last week, what?  I haven’t painted in 2 months yet there isn’t enough hours in the day. This is Saturday and  I have been to Tai Chi  here at Ya Po Ah and the Women’s march down town. Thursday I went to a play, Wednesday  a lecture on Psilocybe mushrooms, last Monday a jazz jam. Tonight is movie night. No wonder I cannot remember anything. The storage space in my brain is full.

This building is being upgraded and work has begun. Steve and I thought it best to take my paintings, in the halls, down so they wouldn’t get damaged. They are being stored down on the 2nd floor and will be kept in storage until the building project is finished whenever?.

These are amazing times we are living in, the technical age. I spend a lot of time looking at great art on the internet. Pinterest knows exactingly what I like. I have over 2000 images of paintings I love stored on my computer. They are very inspiring and I study them for inspiration for my own paintings. I have been blessed to be in places that have galleries and museums and have bee able to see original work, especially the Wyeth clan. Nothing can explain the feelings of seeing original paintings. I saw the painting Sea Watchers by Jamie Wyeth at the Farnsworth in Rockland ME. II is a powerful painting and the energy of it can be physically felt. 

I have a small collection of other artists work. If I were wealthy I would collect paintings and have a museum for them. Below is my collection.

Chris Bechler

Joyce Steel,   a print. artist friend

Joyce Zarins , sculpture  

Doug's sculpture in home in Maine

Doug's sculpture

Mike Bigger  lived in Newburyport back in 70ies

Drawing on right Trevor Chapman,  friend in Maine

Patience Sampson,  friend in Friendship

Christopher Bechler

Murray Wentworth,  bought on Cape Cod

Jack Coughlin, bought on Cape Cod

Lee Nesler   lived in Friendship for a while

Kat Logan,  friend artist

photo I can't remember who

Vern Broe,   knew most of my life

Zygmund Jankowski,  Cap Ann Artist 

Stephen Jane, friend artist

Chris Augusta, lives in Waldoboro

Sally Loughridge, friend artist

can't remember photographer 

John Urbain, bought in Rockland

Ralph Bush , Cape Ann painter, moved to Waldoboro

skinners Butte flag flying

Spring flowers Skinner's Butte

I walked up Skinners Butte Saturday and the kite man was there. There were lots of people up there and he had a good crowd around him. He had 15 kites on the string when I left. I have see him up there many times. I looked him up on google. He is a retired mail man and has flown kites his whole life. He has had as many as 62 kites on one string and has the record of the most consecutive days 1223 when the article was written in May of 2018. 

The winter here in Eugene has been warmer and sunnier then usual and I try to take a walk every day. Skinners is a 200 foot climb. There is a road and the parking lot is always full. There are trails that zig sag back and forth and I like to walk those paths to the river. The back side of Ya Po Ah faces Skinners park. Below are  a few of the photos of Skinners Butte, and views from the top

From Skinner's Butte

going up from Ya Po Ah

eagles nest

watching the sun set 

reservoir 

building on left is Ya Po Ah

Spencer butte 700 feet

flag on top of skinners

flag still no wind

one of the paths

sun in sky

this fall

fog morning light

afternoon light

last winter

last winters snow and ice