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.