Posted by: EvelynMcCPetersArt
on Mar 16, 2012
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My time at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony is coming to an end.
It is also my last of the three residencies I’ve received this winter. It has been an amazing journey. Weir Farm National Historic Site brought my work to a new level and I experienced many a break through there. Brush Creek in Wyoming was so good for my soul with its humbling majestic beauty. My work strengthened there as well.
Dorland is a truly magical place. ( I will be coming back for two additional weeks sometime this year! ). To wake each morning and look at the vista out my back porch is just an inspiring moment. Here my work in a very short time took a new turn as well. I am lucky enough to return to California and Arizona at the end of next week and I look forward to taking what I learned from the landscape around Dorland into my new work.
I'm not sure how to describe it but there's just an atmosphere here that pushes you to create...and you just can't ask for anything more. Thank you to the wonderful people who make this such an amazing place.
Here are the rest of my paintings completed at Dorland. If you're interested in seeing works completed at Weir Farm please visit my website EvelynMcCPetersArt.com. I will post my work from Brush Creek next week. It is currently hanging at The Studio at Gulf and Pine in Anna Maria Florida.
Thanks for stopping by!
Posted by: MeadowSongArts
on Sep 29, 2011
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alligator painting
A Swamp Day is a very active painting of mine. I got the inspiration for it at the Chattanooga Aquarium. I went there on my honeymoon and took many pictures. When I got home, I collaborated them into this active painting featuring a young alligator in his native home. I painted it in oil, and though it was the first time I painted a gator, I had lots of fun.
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Posted by: taniacavenecia
on Oct 29, 2010
Lark Calderon-Gomez is a native California artist. Raised in Southern California and now residing here in the San Francisco Bay Area where she has studied oil painting under painter Phyllis Shafer. I first heard of Lark when I came across one of her oil paintings from her series "Julia's Journey" , pictured above. The modern, romantic and latin feel of the work caught my attention but it was the eyes that conveyed that there was a story to tell behind these paintings and indeed there was. The entire series of paintings is inspired by Lark's grandmother Julia, her travels and struggles in leaving her home in Guatemala for a new life.
Each work of art is like another chapter that draws inspiration from her grandmother's life. A young brave woman in Guatemala in the 1940s who makes the decision to leave her country in hopes of something better and embarks on the difficult journey to the United States where discovers a whole new world. Lark weaves a wonderful story and each of her paintings are like little gems making you want to see more.
