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  • PAINTINGS 1
    • Waterfall
    • The Frog Poet
    • Ginkgos & Waxwings
    • Eagle's Pride
    • Spring in Bloom
    • Flower Moon in May
    • Northwest Rain Kosode
    • Snow on the Beach
    • It Only Takes One
    • Scattered Fans
    • White Circle of Silence
    • In the Spirit of Serizawa & Kubota
  • Paintings 2
    • Autumn Introspection
    • Bats' Lunar Playground
    • Foxgloves Reaching for the Sky
    • Plum Tree on a Snowy Night
    • Autumn Moon by the Sea
    • Chickadee in the Snow
    • Down by the Stream on a Lazy Summer's Day
    • Towhee & Currant in Spring
    • Sparrow's Spring
    • Autumn Grasses (Oribe Tribute)
    • A Tribute to Itchiku Kubota: Ozette Sunset
    • Cathedral of the Trees
    • Baillie Scott Trinity
    • Raven's Forest
    • Eagle Embraces Her
  • Paintings 3
    • The Guardian
    • Crows at Sunset
    • Cormorants
    • Skagit Scene
    • Dream Birds
    • Curious Crow
    • Hydrangea's Final Bloom
    • Pine Island
    • The Four Guardians
    • Circle About the Moon
    • Eelgrass Nursery Rhyme
    • Cedar Green Man
    • Serizawa's Kimono
    • Cats United
  • Paintings 4
    • Dance to the Moon
    • As Autumn Approaches
    • Echizen Crows
    • The Spirit of Fallen Camellias
    • Temple Hawk
    • Goldfinch Dream
    • Autumn Carpet
    • An Eala Bahn (The White Swan)
    • Horse Ema
    • Lucia's Maple
    • Eagles Spring Dance
    • Watts Chapel Tribute Memorial
    • Voysey's tree
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      • Cedar Waxwing
      • Spotted Towhee
      • Stellar's Jay
      • Evening Grossbeak
      • Red Breasted Nuthatch
      • Black-Capped Chickadee
      • Cardinal
      • Camellias in Bloom Woodblock Print
      • Hot Otter Love
      • č’u•? is Seal
      • Loons & Horses
      • Hawk on a Pine 1
      • Elk Along the South Fork
      • Spirits of Ozette
      • Lingcod Guardian
      • Plum Blossoms in Spring
      • Journey Home From Ozette Island
      • Tsooes Sunset
    • Boxes >
      • Rose Tree Box
      • Celtic Bread Box
      • Creature of the Box
      • Kells Cats Chest
      • Miyamoto's Rice Box
    • Trays >
      • Dragonfly Tray
      • Kaiseki Tray
    • Karakami Square Series >
      • Karakami Square #1: Cherry Tree
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      • Eagles 2-Panel Folding Screen
      • The Four Seasons Screen Series >
        • Winter Screen: Eagle & Pine
        • Fall Screen: Canada Geese & Maples
        • Spring Screen: Cherry Trees & Finches
        • Summer Screen: Swallows & Willow
      • Frog's House Screen
      • Waterfall Screen
    • Peacock Sconces
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  • Night at Marymere Falls
  • Eagle on a Pine
  • Skagit Landscape of the Mind: Full Moon at Midnight
  • Eggplant Harvest
  • Tomatoes & Wisteria Entwined
  • Running the Waves
  • When the Salmon Run
  • Autumn Deer
  • Dunlin Flight
  • The Fox Spirit (kitsune)
  • Crow on a Snowy Branch
  • Skagit Landscape of the Mind V: Winter's Cool
  • Trees IV
PLUM BLOSSOMS IN SPRING
 ACRYLICS ON CEDAR W/ RED OAK FRAME
(WINTER 2014)
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     A sure sign that spring is on the way is when our friend Jim prunes his trees, providing plum cuttings for the neighborhood.  There is nothing quite like plum blossoms blooming in a vase on the table.  The warmth of the room and the water prompts the cuttings to produce their beautiful blossoms.  I was inspired by the blooming stems to paint this picture to celebrate the start of spring.  For my design I drew inspiration from Hiroshige’s Plum Garden at Kameido (see Ukiyo-e; 250 Years of Japanese Art, by Roni Neuer, Herbert Libertson, and Susugu Yoshida ,©1979, page 319).  The young woman represents spring and was inspired by both Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Roy Vickers.  I love the women Margaret Mackintosh designed and her painted gesso panel Opera of the Sea (see Art Nouveau: From Mackintosh to Liberty, by Victor Arwas , ©2000, page 69)  was particularly helpful.  Art Nouveau celebrated the “cult of hair” and this is reflected in the hair I designed for “Spring”.  Roy Vickers’s John 15:13, Hebrews 9:28, showing a portrait of Christ, was the inspiration for her hair (see Northwest Coast Indian Graphics: An Introduction to Silk Screen Prints by Edwin S. Hall, Jr., Margaret B. Blackman & Vincent Rickard, ©1981, page 96).  The stylized background body of “Spring” is meant to be symbolic of a vase.  I made the frame out of red oak using pegged, hand-joined, mortise-and-tenon construction methods.  I used the Japanese technique (shou-sugi-ban) of charring and oiling the oak to finish the frame.


DIMENSIONS:     HEIGHT:  31 1/2 inches
                           WIDTH:   10 1/2 inches

                               PRICE $350


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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh Opera of the Sea
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Hiroshige’s Plum Garden at Kameido
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Roy Vickers’s John 15:13, Hebrews 9:28
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