People & Places
Pool Girls Pastel, 12″ x 16″, Private Collection; My daughter and four year-old granddaughter enjoying a dip in the pool.
Contemplation Pastel, 11″ x 14″, private collection. Another granddaughter as a meditative six year-old at a family wedding.
Blowin’ bubbles, Pastel, 12″ x 16″ Private Collection; In this pastel a seven year-old granddaughter displays her prowess with a bubble pipe.
At the Track Pastel, 11″ x 15″ Private Collection: Here I depict my daughter and one year-old granddaughter on a visit to Canterbury Downs.
Como Park Spruce Pastel, 10″ x 14″, $100 This small winter scene is based on a photo of a solitary, snow laden spruce tree standing guard in St. Paul’s Como Park. I like the piece because it so accurately conveys the lonely feeling of an overcast winter day.
Lillian in Jamtland’s Dress Pastel, 11″ x 14″, $60; Lillian, a Swedish family connection, models the native dress of Jamtland, SE, from where one set of my ancestors emigrated in the 1850s.