On Art and Artful Words
May. 13th, 2007 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrdreamjeansAnyone who has been to my home understands how much I love artwork ... photography, theater memorabilia, oils or acrylics, sculptures and pottery. I've been fortunate to be able to purchase or be gifted with original pieces in all of these categories and being surrounded by them brings me joy.
This morning I've been organizing ... (I'm always organizing:) ... and came across two items I'd like to share. The first was a business card for an artist whom I met on tour with "Evita" in Memphis in 2005. When I was there, I ate daily at the family restaurant, The Blue Plate Cafe and Gallery. The artist's name is Debbie Richmond and she is a member of the Animal Artists Hall of Fame. She does extraordinary paintings of dogs, horses, wildlife, wild animals, abstracts .. in acrylics. I was immediately drawn to her work, the use of color and her ability to capture the personalities of her animal subjects. Alas, the only items I could afford at the time were a series of cards featuring golden retrievers. I showed them to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gotmoof when he visited in March. Tim loved them. I'm saving up to buy an original painting of hers, perhaps even commission her to paint our beloved dog, Dixie. Please check out her website ... www.debbierichmondart.com ... If you love animals, you'll be happy you visited.
The other item I wanted to share was a second quote from the book, "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive". I'm setting aside my cynicism and hoping that this could be true ... in our families, in government, with friends ...
Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other ...
Finally ... a wish to my friends and their mothers ... Whether you are blessed to share time today, have the opportunity to speak or are simply holding them close in your heart and memory, I honor your mothers. Happy Mothers Day to them, to their sons and daughters ... I thank your mothers for bringing you into life and thus into mine.
This morning I've been organizing ... (I'm always organizing:) ... and came across two items I'd like to share. The first was a business card for an artist whom I met on tour with "Evita" in Memphis in 2005. When I was there, I ate daily at the family restaurant, The Blue Plate Cafe and Gallery. The artist's name is Debbie Richmond and she is a member of the Animal Artists Hall of Fame. She does extraordinary paintings of dogs, horses, wildlife, wild animals, abstracts .. in acrylics. I was immediately drawn to her work, the use of color and her ability to capture the personalities of her animal subjects. Alas, the only items I could afford at the time were a series of cards featuring golden retrievers. I showed them to
gotmoof when he visited in March. Tim loved them. I'm saving up to buy an original painting of hers, perhaps even commission her to paint our beloved dog, Dixie. Please check out her website ... www.debbierichmondart.com ... If you love animals, you'll be happy you visited.The other item I wanted to share was a second quote from the book, "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive". I'm setting aside my cynicism and hoping that this could be true ... in our families, in government, with friends ...
Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other ...
Finally ... a wish to my friends and their mothers ... Whether you are blessed to share time today, have the opportunity to speak or are simply holding them close in your heart and memory, I honor your mothers. Happy Mothers Day to them, to their sons and daughters ... I thank your mothers for bringing you into life and thus into mine.
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