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Paris
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Remembrance
This painting continues the “I Love Paris + Roses” thread in my work. What would follow Eternal? I'd like to paint anotther with a circle. What about rose windows? The flame-like design of the one in Sainte-Chapelle, the radiant jewel box of a chapel tucked inside...
Eternal
Here’s a painting with a big story. In a journal post, I share how I found its source images and the idea to paint it. Here’s what happened next: This painting began as digital art. The original image captured the Musée d’Orsay clock as it looked in 1998. Standing on...
Paris
Welcome to an entirely different way to approach a painting. The only drawing on my paper when I started painting was a 2.7km square of the very center of Paris. Having the right level of detail meant even the Eiffel Tower didn't make it in. I superimposed the same...
Jellies from Hédiard
Paris is an extraordinary city. When I have followed my desire to go there, I end up going, as if by magic. Newly separated from my first husband, I wrote in my journal I wanted to go to Paris for six months. Nine months later I was on a plane - to Paris - for six...
Macarons
La Durée is a venerable Salon de Thé - tea house - in Paris. I took the photo that became this painting while on a trip there with Anne and Brad - my sister-in-law and nephew. This image has been calling to me to paint it as a companion to the éclairs from Fauchon -...
Fauchon Éclairs
I took a photo of these brightly colored eclairs in a fancy food shop called Fauchon on a trip to Paris in the late autumn of 2004 with my brother, Matt. When I saw the photo in the display of the camera, my first thought was "this would make a fun painting." Graphic,...
Reach
L'Hay les Roses is an absolutely phenomenal, even overwhelming rose garden in a suburb south of Paris. I visited it one Saturday in June, several weeks after arriving in France in 1996. It had been gray and cloudy since I'd arrived. This was the first sunny weekend...
Paris Roses
These roses hung down towards my face from a trellis in a rose allee in the Jardin de Plantes. It was a trip back to Paris, in late May, 1998, before I'd really begun painting in earnest. Yet, the photograph stayed with me, telling me to paint it, already! I started...
Full Circle
This painting is close to my heart. In the late summer of 1995 I left a very difficult 14 year marriage. Days after leaving I wrote in my journal I wanted to live and work in Paris. The next spring I moved to Paris to work for a small software company for six months...