Richard and I have been painting up a storm lately. We would love for you to come visit us. Much of the work is either plein air, or based on plein air work here in Nova Scotia.
As life spins along, sometimes peacefully, sometimes beyond our control, I am now in a phase of readjusting to living and creating without my life partner, my husband, artist Richard Rudnicki. Richard died suddenly on November 4th, 2019. In the more than two years that followed his death, I worked predominately on completing his graphic novel, Dusty Dreams and Troubled Waters , written by Brian Bowman, and in curating a show of his work, Richard Rudnicki: Reflections on Life , at ArtsPlace Gallery in Annapolis Royal. https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2251430 https://artsplaceexhibits.weebly.com/richard-rudnicki.html This does not mean that I did not work in my own studio, but grief and the adjustment to life alone did take its toll.
I had the great pleasure and opportunity to work with the poetry of George Elliott Clarke earlier this year. Lasso the Wind: Aurélia's Verses and Other Poems will be out this fall. Here are several illustrations... a bit of a preview!
Richard and I had the good fortune to spend several days at the end of May in Great Village at the Elizabeth Bishop House. In such an atmosphere of creativity, surrounded by the aura of the great poet, we explored the landscapes of the Fundy Shore. Working back into the plein air paintings created on site, I have completed 12" x 24" studies; two are posted here.
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