Saturday, October 26, 2013
The Most Painted Place
All artists I think have a certain love for tranquil beauty, Although I am a portrait artist, there are certain landscapes that inspire me to just pick up the paint brush or pastel nub and dive right into a canvas. Years back when my husband was still alive and kids were just toddlers, I visited a little art museum, a renovated home in New Washington, Ohio. I had gone there to talk to a fellow artist about marketing my works. She and her husband lived in this historical place.
As I marveled at her paintings, I noticed how many landscapes she had done of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. She spied me gazing at the prints and said "I have one customer who comes in all the time and buys these."
Over the years, I have collected photographs from various calender prints, you know the ones that churches, banks and even co-ops give out around the end of the year. Almost all of them feature a photograph of Cape Ann's fishing port. I have an instructional book that my father gave me when I was young containing the same port. "an artist's dream place". I too can't help but fall in love with its quaint charm; feeling like "Norman Rockwell."
I always wanted to go there for myself and witness its beauty but have never gone. Something always came up that was more important in my life or like many things it had always been just something "Hoped For" but never reached. Perhaps there may be a day when I will make it, at this point in my life with so many disappointments, more than likely not a possibility. It will always be the one star in the sky that burns bright but just out of reach for me. I pray that when I get to heaven that my "Artist Dream'' of Cape Ann will come true.
As I marveled at her paintings, I noticed how many landscapes she had done of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. She spied me gazing at the prints and said "I have one customer who comes in all the time and buys these."
Over the years, I have collected photographs from various calender prints, you know the ones that churches, banks and even co-ops give out around the end of the year. Almost all of them feature a photograph of Cape Ann's fishing port. I have an instructional book that my father gave me when I was young containing the same port. "an artist's dream place". I too can't help but fall in love with its quaint charm; feeling like "Norman Rockwell."
I always wanted to go there for myself and witness its beauty but have never gone. Something always came up that was more important in my life or like many things it had always been just something "Hoped For" but never reached. Perhaps there may be a day when I will make it, at this point in my life with so many disappointments, more than likely not a possibility. It will always be the one star in the sky that burns bright but just out of reach for me. I pray that when I get to heaven that my "Artist Dream'' of Cape Ann will come true.
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