The time of year has begun that my studio resembles Santa’s workshop. So there will be times when I write more cryptically here than I normally write. I’ll be leaving out whole swaths of what I’m very busily working on because … gifts.
Imagine one of Santa’s elves on a business trip, South of the North Pole, sourcing materials for Santa’s workshop. If that elf was asked about what workshop projects were in progress the elf would shrug “oh, the usual, you know” and desperately change the topic of conversation.
Look! Trees!
Here are some of the trees I can see from my windows and yard.
I picked 6 of the trees I can easily see from my house and have been regularly painting portraits of them. Perhaps you’ve seen some of them on my email newsletter.
Well, this week I took some of my tree portraits series to the Aurora Gallery where we discussed frames for them as well as other projects for holiday exhibits and such …
… oh look! Books about trees!!
And here’s a poem by D. H. Lawrence about trees…
Yes, another public art project related to my tree portraits will be a holiday event at Vintage Books, my local bookstore, that combines my tree portraits and books about trees and…
Well, enough talking, this elf had better get back to work. 😁
See you next Monday.
sue clancy - artist 
8 responses to “The holiday times, trees and tomes”
I read Overstay. I’ll be interested to learn your opinion.
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I loved how the Overstory emphasizes how trees can be alive over multiple human generations… how too often we humans assume our time spans are the lengths of time that matter. When in reality the planet, the plants and trees are much bigger than our minds can wrap around. In my neighborhood some of these trees have been standing for well more than 100 years…
What did you think of The Overstory?
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I had difficulty getting into it but became very involved with the stories. It is a good book to remind us little humans that there is a lot of other forms of life on our planet and they need to be given room to live.
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I can’t think of a more worthy art project than a tribute to trees!
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Thank you!!! I appreciate that!! A tribute to trees feels good…
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You’re welcome, Sue!
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Trees are a very fruitful subject for artistic study and creative contemplation. I have never had much aptitude for – and therefore interest in – drawing them myself but I always enjoy seeing other artist’s portraits of trees.
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If you’d told me some years ago that I’d create a series on trees I’d have said “you’re kidding me”. The creative life has so many unexpected twists and turns…
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