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'Garden Poetry' Triptych # 2 - Drawings

12/30/2022 2:56:57 PM | By Carol | Comment on this

'Garden Poetry' Series triptych #2 - calla lilies, coneflowers and sunflowers. Finished paintings will be acrylic on gallery wrap canvas with painted edges - each panel is 24"x8"x1.5". Available directly from the artist: Contact Carol [...]

'Lively Pair'

12/21/2022 2:59:43 PM | By Carol | Comment on this

'Lively Pair' - acrylic on cradled board, 12"x12"x1" with painted edges. $325 Available through Santora Fine Art [...]

'Coastal Catch'

12/19/2022 11:05:44 AM | By Carol | Comment on this

'Coastal Catch' - acrylic on cradled board, 12"x12"x1" with painted edges. $325 Available through Santora Fine Art [...]

Winter Newsletter 2022

12/13/2022 11:08:59 AM | By Carol | Comment on this

WINTER NEWSLETTER 2022 We had our first 'snow fall' Sunday night in Maine... Love the look of the layer of white on the fields... An update on the location of 'Environmental Impact II:' - the traveling museum exhibition focusing on contemporary artists' work who focus on global as well as local environmental issues - is now in Missouri through January 22, 2023, at The Rosemary Berke & Harry L. Crisp II Museum, Southeast Missouri State University River Campus, 175 Cultural Arts Center, 518 S. Fountain Street, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I am one of 23 artists with work [...]

Garden Poetry: 'Remembrance'

12/11/2022 12:22:33 PM | By Carol | Comment on this

Poppy painting in acrylic on gallery wrap canvas with painted edges - 36"x12"x1.5". One of the 3-Panel pieces in the 'Garden Poetry' Series. $875 Available through Santora Fine Art MORE: The poppy is the enduring symbol of remembrance of the First World War. They flourished in the soil churned up by the fighting and shelling, and millions of soldiers saw the poppies in Flanders fields on the Western Front. [...]

Garden Poetry: 'Harvest Time'

12/10/2022 1:16:20 PM | By Carol | Comment on this

Sunflower painting in acrylic on gallery wrap canvas with painted edges - 36"x12"x1.5". One of the 3-Panel pieces in the 'Garden Poetry' Series. $875 Available through Santora Fine Art MORE: Young sunflowers follow the sun,and when mature they face eastward. In September, they begin to droop and dry out in preparation for the harvest. Their petals dry and begin to fall. I think this is when sunflowers are most beautiful! [...]

Garden Poetry: 'Red Lipstick'

12/9/2022 12:31:48 PM | By Carol | Comment on this

Tulip painting in acrylic on gallery wrap canvas with painted edges - 36"x12"x1.5". One of the 3-Panel pieces in the 'Garden Poetry' Series. $875 Available through Santora Fine Art MORE: Red tulips are a symbol of everlasting and unconditional love... [...]