Intersections

 Challenged to make a piece for the Lost in Traffic show at SPA, a local art gallery....this is collage and oil painting, 20x20 on canvas. I used a decaying map of Vermont, from 1975 when my husband and I were trying to settle in this state, with aging postcards from a German pen pal, a ancient map of the world, and a map drawing by my son when he was very young.  It is nearing finish and has been challenging and exciting while I wait for spring. Many intersections.

 This painting got some more work today, much more color, but it doesn't seem to resonate the more color here...hmmmm.  I was painting Maine coast in my anticipation of going there for a painting retreat for the last 2 weeks of April, but plans change.  One of our art group has just been told of her breast cancer, detected early from a mammogram, so we have postponed our retreat until October in solidarity with Kathy.  Somehow going to celebrate painting the ocean while she undergoes surgery just didn't feel right....so I am trying to make my painting retreat right here in Vermont.

 I traveled to Waitsfield to make a scarf delivery and had to investigate the new spring scenes with my camera...part of the painting retreat, yes, and intersections, more intersections.  Will this scene become a painting?

 Some barns can't hold the snow weight.  Why am I always so fascinated with barns in collapse?

 Intersections...looking into that barn

And stone walls show their beauty once again...so exciting to see Vermont without the white.  Crocus pop up in my yard, and the rhubarb has a wonderful red nub just emerged, but no images here, only the words.....more later.  Happy spring!