The Arcata Marsh
30x40"
2023  Arcata, CA
acrylics, collage and mixed media on canvas

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wetlands with bridge (working title)
Title:Ancestral Home of the Wiyot People
Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, formerly home to the Wiyot people for thousands of years prior to 1850
Arcata, CA



The headman at the time,  of the peoples who numbered up to  2,000 was Ki-we-lat-tah, who rowed with his family to greet the newcomers in 1849.  He gave them a great feast of clams offering to give them "every means within his power to give them comfort."  The California Gold Rush ended the tribe by displacement, slavery, disease, starvation and genocide.  Their ancestral territory had extended from Little River near Trinidad to Bear Ridge near Scotia. The final massacre came in the Rogue River Indian Wars of 1852
dimensions: 20x20"
Medium: acrylic and mixed media (pen, pencils and pastels)
view this painting next at Unitarian Universalist Church gallery in February and March, or contact artist personally
Price: TBA

Title: Leaving Potatoes
Dimensions: 
Medium: Acrylics and mixed media, i.e. pastels
pencil, pen

"But good neighbors make good neighbors, and no woman minding a house but should put a couple of the first of the potatoes aside on the dresser, for there's no house but they'll visit it sometime or other."

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
                    ~Lady Gregory

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Title:
Dimensions: 24x24"
April, 2023
Medium: pencil, acrylics and pastels on canvas
Price:

In the Field
Dimensions: 24x12"
Medium: Acrylics and mixed media including pastels
Price:
April, 2023

greetings from Elizabeth Wrightman
wouldgodmilkagoat.com
sold

[email protected]

​https://www.montereyherald.com/2022/06/10/painting-a-way-to-an-international-literary-audience/

Dragon tapestry
medium: embroidery and felt on fabric
owned by Thomas Reichmuth,
​Berkeley, CA

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Leopold Bloom and Mrs. Breen talking about their neighbor who is having a difficult labor
Medium: Acrylic, mixed media and collage
Dimensions: 28x22"                                                            Ulysses

But after I was completing it I felt that it is Adam and Eve.  In their presence in the studio I felt their innocence and their deep showing-up-for-life-ness, and their confronting, and comforting in-my-kitchen-ness, and I realized that I was looking at our first parents.  I was in awe and great joy feeling that I had met them.

                                 

"From before the ages. He willed me and now may not will me away or ever"         
- James Joyce
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this soft sculpture dragon was made for Jack for his Birthday.
Jack is Dracones Amicus, friend of dragons.........................
Berkeley, CA

mixed media:acrylics, pencil and pastels on canvas
Dimensions: 20x20
quote from Finnegans Wake re: tulips, the white thorn, the red thorn, cornflowers, sweet rush.............. 

title: and a marigold window
August and September, 2022                            Finnegans Wake
#3  of Finnegans Wake paintings
dimensions: 24x36"
Medium: acrylic, pastels and collage on wood and fiber board          sold

 ~painting on title area above: with the large map of Europe on the kitchen table done to be in time for the James Joyce International Symposium, June 2022.  I presented 12 paintings there in Dublin Tuesday, June 14 at Trinity College.
I saw this painting in a dream.  It is the kitchen table of the Joyce family when they are planning to move to Paris in 1920.
Title: Moving to Paris
Dimensions:36x36"
Medium: acrylic and pastels on canvas, with collage

​$1500                                                   Finnegans Wake
sold





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"the bergs of Iceland melt in waves of fire"
~Finnegans Wake
11x14 acrylic on composition board
July 21, 2022
sold
Finnegans Wake

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Dimensions:
​20x20"
medium: Acrylic on canvas

Title: Ducks with Calla Lillies
​sold to private collector
Carmel Valley, CA

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​dimensions: 24x18"
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas (below)
"I see my life go drifting Like a river from change to change; I have been many things--a green drop in the surge, a gleam of light"
~ Fergus and the Druid
WB Yeats

​Title: Like a River From Change to change

​sold

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the Cat by  the Stairs
dimensions: 36x24"
medium: acrylic , house paint, mixed media on clay board
"Instance, that cat this morning on the staircase"
-from Ulysses by James Joyce

$1,000.00                                                                                   Ulysses
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​(below) ~ a young sea gull at twilight on Monterey Beach, early 2022.  Painted from scenes in Ulysses by James Joyce.  framed canvas; acrylics and mixed media.  Happy Birthday Ulysses (turning 100 years old!)
dimensions: 40x30"
This painting uncharacteristically took a whole month and had numerous technical and composition challenges.  It is also framed which is not my usual practice, for color issues and a few other inexplicable factors.  The gull is actually stuffed with fiber fill (!!??), which resulted from the resolution of some of the above issues.)  These steep challenges made it ultimately a breakthrough work for me, and also helped in some healing time for me.

​$1,000
available                                                                   Ulysses

 

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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________A baby red tail hawk we rescued at Three Rivers, CA on our vacation, along with its sibling.)  They had fallen from their very high nest and after 3 days were still not flying and were looking hunched over, defeated and dehydrated.  The parents had ceased to vocalize.  We were getting ready to go home, so called some rescue folks with whom we had been corresponding; they decided it was finally time to come get the fledglings ...... get them inside, fed, and with a few more days to practice learning to fly.  Watching the rescue was wonderful and we were so relieved.  Sometimes we wonder if it is the brother and sister we see flying overhead in the sky and cannot help but think of them as our wild tribe children.
​The green door seen behind him, (and in the screen of which he had trapped himself at first, by his talons), appears now in five paintings of the cat from Ulysses.

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note: {some paintings and an artist's statement may be seen also at the virtual gallery of Mercy Center in Burlingame}

I have now painted the cat and the green door five times.  I started showing them at Hidden Valley Music Seminar for the Home Studio Tour exhibit.  They are all from one quote in Ulysses.  I began to get them all mixed up in terms of titles.  They are all sold now except for the one my husband owns and the one I just completed.   Its title is FIVE. (See below on this page)
James Joyce is said to have liked cats and feared dogs.  He said "it is nice to have a cat around.  It furnishes a room."

Molly and Leopold Bloom's Cat
acrylics and collage on canvas
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​Ulysses
~James Joyce

dimensions:  20x24"

(​nickname: TWO)
​sold

Ulysses

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acrylics on canvas
"The cat having cleaned all her fur, returned to the meat stained paper, nosed it, and stalked to the door.  she looked back at him mewing."
Ulysses
~James Joyce
sold
(version seen below)

One



Ulysses

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sold to local collector                                        FOUR
​{shown by artist at the International James Joyce Symposium, June 2022 by presentation of digital images from Ulysses}

Title: California Superbloom 2023
Medium: acrylic and mixed media
Dimensions: 20x20"

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​The stilted water-hen
Crossing streams again
Scared by the splashing of a dozen cows;"

~from the poem II.My House
(Meditations in Times of Civil war)
W.B.Yeats

Medium: Acrylic and collage on canvas
Dimensions:30x40"
Title: the Cows

completed May 2021
available

$1,000
can be seen at Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula on St. Patrick's Day
7:00 pm               See Haunted Ireland Through Art

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Five   
in private collection, Ashland, OR

Ulysses
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36x36"

​medium: acrylic and pastels on canvas
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Title: Tree of Life

Beloved gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
and all the trembling flowers they bear.
the changing colors of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with merry light.
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night.

excerpt from The Two Trees
~ WB Yeats
{painting sold}
shown at Mercy Retreat Center

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The author, Eileen O'Keffe McVicker, grew up in Eastern Oregon.  Her father had grown up in Glendalougha in County Kerry, Ireland.  He lived and worked at an abandoned castle called Lindfield House, as a teenager, working for the caretaker.  "Dad talked about the big barn on the ground level where the cows had been kept.........."

This painting, like the 2 before it pictured below, was done during the pandemic. I see now that they are all about strange lights.  It has been a strange, and for many, very sad year as COVID-19 has now killed nearly half a million Americans.
I was also in grief this year, losing our beloved dog, and then raising a puppy!  This got me using more pastels to help control my time and work space, etc.;(a puppy changing working in one's home as much as a new baby does.)  I liked combining them with acrylics a lot.  I had done it a little some time ago.  It required a lot of special ways of securing the 2 mediums on the surface, but I was familiar with them already.

{painting is sold}
{see quotation below}

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"Just as he was settling in to milk, with his forehead against the soft side of the cow, the light would appear off to one side.  It was a strange glow exactly at the height a man would carry a lantern. It wasn't a scary kind of light; in fact it was rather dark in the lower level [of the castle] so it seemed a friendly thing that this lantern-level glow would accompany him all the while he was tending to the cow and milking her.  When he was done for the night the light would disappear....."

The Friendly Light
Medium: Acrylic, collage, and pastels on wood
Dimensions: 30x40"

Child of Steens Mountain
~Eileen O'Keeffe McVicker
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Title: When I saw a small Bright Light

Dimensions: 36x24"

Medium: pastels on clay board

"We had stood for some few minutes, so far as I can recollect, looking over the fields full of stones and brambles and elder-bushes, when I saw a small bright light on the horizon, as it seemed..."
- W.B. Yeats
the Celtic twilight

This painting was done in the time of really pronounced social distancing, in Summer 2020: (even more notable was that we had a new puppy, Luna, and these last 2 works I used a dryer, easier- to- clean- up-fast medium.)

sold;  Carmel, CA

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Title:​ From Beech to Hazel wood, found that Old House

Dimensions: 36x36"

Medium: acrylic and pastels on canvas
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"When night had deepened, I groped my way from beech to hazel wood, found that old house, a sputtering torch within....."
- W.B. Yeats
The Two Kings

$950

available painting

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Summer of 2020              hope to meet you on St. Patrick's Day, 7:00pm!
wine and cheese             no charge to the public         See Haunted Ireland Through Art
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​Have you not heard that our hearts are old,
That you call in birds, in wind on the hill,
In shaken boughs, in tide on the shore?
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still.

W.B. Yeats
~excerpt from the Everlasting Voices

Dimensions: 30 x 48"
​Media: Acrylic and collage on canvas
Title: In Shaken Boughs on the Shore

Spring of 2020: coronavirus realization just about to set in.  Below
{sold}
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Sophia at Church
~Acrylic on canvas
commission 
Pacific Grove, California
2019

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​"It was only the other day I heard of a Scottish farmer who believed that the lake in front of his house was haunted by a water-horse.  He was afraid of it, and dragged the lake with nets, and then tried to pump it empty.
t would have been a bad thing for the water-horse had he found him.  An Irish peasant would have long since come to terms with the creature.  For in Ireland there is something of timid affection between men and spirits.  -----Each admits the other side to have feelings.  There are points beyond which neither will go."

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The magical moon rain dragon chair   
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Sept. 2020
sold

 in I am owned by a collector in Carmel village.......
​I should be further down on the page and much larger, but we are having website reconfigurations........

my information is temporarily not available.  
Roberts Lake, Seaside is where we swim together with a small group of like-minded waterfowl.  Nobody is allowed by law to feed us, but everybody parks there and feed us every manner of delicacies.  (Not elizabeth wrightman, who is rather law-abiding and believes in obeying posted  signs!)

​Title: "Come heart where hill is heaped upon hill: for there the mystical brotherhood of sun and moon and hollow and wood and river and stream work their will."
~ WB Yeats

{immediately below

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(Carmel River in Palo Corona Park, nearing the Pacific Ocean)
​Carmel, CA
Big Sur Land Trust
dimensions: 36x36"
Medium: Acrylic and collage on canvas
July and August, 2019


{this painting/collage was at Pacific Grove art Center, Nov. 5, - Dec. 16, 2021
 available}

$800
very highly textured collage; lots of knitted portions!  -softly colored in earth tones rather than a brightly colored, lots-of-primary-colors look frequent in my paintings.

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{sold}

Acrylic on wood
Dimensions:24x12"

early summer, 2019
Hatton Canyon Park, Carmel, CA
Title:  Birds Awaken from Meadows

" - passionately wailful is the ​harsh-shrieking crane which the wolves hear in the wilderness in the early rise of morning; birds awaken from meadows, many are the wild creatures from which they flee out of the wood, out of the green grasses."

~excerpt from the Four Seasons
Irish, eleventh century
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(ABOVE IMAGE)
"O, THAT WE WERE TOGETHER
AND MY BODY FEATHERED TOO;
in LIGHT AND DARKNESS WOULD I WANDER,
WITH YOU FOREVERMORE."

EORANN SPEAKES TO KING SUIBhNE
~9TH CENTURY Irish PROSE POEM

 {OUR EVERYDAY NAME?  Laguna Grande Wetlands!}
Monterey, CA April 2019
Acrylic and egg tempera on canvas
Dimensions: 40x30"
$1500
available
this is a calm, soft, modest looking painting; quiet and intimate in mood; not about color in my more noticeable way.
Suibhne has been bewitched by a saint, as there has been a violent conflict.   The saint has cursed Suibhne who must fly forever, feathered like a bird, and unable to ever find rest or sanctuary no matter what bog or treetop or forest and field he seeks to inhabit.  ------and so the tale, which has influenced many poets and authors throughout history...................unfolds.

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Salinas River in Winter Storm
Nov. 29, 2018

Dimensions: 36x36"
Medium: Acrylic and collage

property of private collectors, San Antonio, TX

 I had to walk out on this small walkway on the overpass on Blanco Road near Research Drive in a pouring rainstorm.  The oncoming traffic was going so fast and the visibility was so awful. I was very anxious.  Plus the first time my batteries were out on the camera and I had to go to a nearby store, buy batteries and the canvas, and do it again!  A woman in the line next to me said this is called something like "rivers or streams through the rain" (?)  I will have to look that up.  (I could hardly drive the car at times.)  Fortunately I had on my neon green rain jacket where I look like a crossing guard.  I photographed the river.  I had only a few weeks to complete it in time to submit it, and I was going to Oregon in a few days.  So I couldn't wait. Plus rain is my favorite weather. But the river was too sprawling and majestic to use a smaller canvas. It is not like the Carmel River!  And here it is very excited, because it is about to join the ocean in a mile!

 I then went down below the overpass, in a vast recycling dump, with these huge caterpillars slowly loading mounds of .....whatever....... silently, remotely, and in the rain; to try to see the river more closely but the road was flooded and I couldn't get close. It was so isolated and I felt...uncanny. A man came up and said, "I will just leave the gate of the center open.  Put the padlock on when you leave!"  I said, "No!  I think I better leave." I somehow did not see myself in the role of locking up the Salinas Dump.  He said "Are you photographing birds?"  When I told him, he was apologetic.  He didn't think 'their' river looked very good today. " It is all muddy and brown." he said!  He thought it was ugly.  I said, "Not to me!"

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Writing notes until the Home Studio tour: Tomorrow I have computer work to do...typing up all the Irish poems and legends which accompany my paintings for the Pacific Grove Art Center Exhibit opening early September.  I also need to choose a painting to be in the Habitat for the Arts Exhibit in Seaside which goes up in early September.  I would like to do Molly Bloom or a painting I did of Bridey years ago, from a photograph, but they are both larger than the size limit.  I will check tomorrow to see if they may make an exception, which they indicated was possible. I usually paint pretty large.  Until this past year.  I was traveling to Oregon a lot and very focused on what was happening up there, with my sister.  For that reason I began to paint much smaller.  I could finish a painting even though I was often coming or going or could be suddenly interrupted.  I can see there is such a somberness to them in a way; however, they are a real witness of the whole family's year of 'goodbyes'.  Goodbyes for now that is.

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In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.

~from the Stolen Child
WB Yeats


​sold to private collector
Philadelphia, PA

dimensions: 40x30"
title: Unquiet Dreams of Trout
medium: acrylic and collage on canvas

Medium: Acrylic on canvas (see below)
Dimensions: 20x20"
Title: Spring Flooding on the Carmel River
Garland Ranch Park, 2018

property of private owner, Berkeley, CA

"He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers."
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~Psalms

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(See below)
The Hare
dimensions: 20x24"
Acrylic on canvas
(Carmel River Series)
December 2017
sold

"And one day I was out by the wood, and I saw two hares sitting by the wall, and the minute I saw them I knew well who they were."

~Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
{Lady Gregory}

owned by private collectors in San Antonia, Texas

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I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods
Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees
Hum in the lime tree flowers; and put away
the unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart.  I have forgot awhile Tara uprooted, and new commonness
Upon the throne and crying about in the streets".........

excerpt from In The Seven Woods
~W. B. Yeats

August 1902
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:20x24"
{a painting of the Carmel River}
Date: Nov. 2017

"Lights along Yeat's river road"

"I fell one night some fifteen years ago, into what seemed the power of faery.
I had gone----to pick stories out of an old countryman; and we were coming home talking over what he and told us.  It was dark and.............."

The Celtic Twilight
~ W. B. Yeats

(see below)
{Carmel River...Garland Ranch Park}

......."where Sphinxes and Chimaeras sit open-eyed and where there are always murmurings and whisperings.  I cannot think that what we saw was an imagination of the waking mind.  We had come under some trees that made the road very dark, when the girl saw a bright light moving slowly across the road.  Her brother and myself saw nothing, and did not see anything until we had walked for about half-an-hour along the edge of the river, and down a narrow lane to some fields..."

~W. B. Yeats
The Celtic Twilight     sold; Carmel, CA

​The Brownies
(See below)
Acrylic on canvas

​36x36"

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"Wherefore in this same age, they are sometimes heard to bake bread, strike hammers, and do such like services---and in some places as yet, enter houses after all are at rest and set the kitchens in order, cleansing all the vessels.  such go under the names of Brownies."

the Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
- Robert Kirk (1641-1692)

the Fairy Dog
30x24"
Acrylic on Canvas

"In the course of another conversation, he pointed to a rocky knoll in a field not far from his home and said, "I saw a dog with a white ring around his neck by that hill there, and the oldest men round Galway have seen him too, for he has been here for one hundred years or more.  He is a dog of the good people and only appears at certain hours of the night."
~owned by artist's husband, in memory of Holmes

- the Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
W.Y. Evans Wentz
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Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 36x24"
 Mission Trail Park, Carmel
 May 2017

 seen at Pacific Grove Art Center; opening Nov. 5, - Dec. 16, 2021


sold

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Mallards Househunting after Flood on the Carmel River, 2017
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-acrylic on canvas
-March, 2017

I met these 2 mallards during the flood this Spring in California.  They were on a pile of brush one day on the Carmel River at Garland Park.  That river was easily 10 times its usual width.  {They were quite safe though, and seemingly immensely happy.}

O, THAT WE WERE TOGETHER AND MY BODY FEATHERED TOO
iN LIGHT AND DARKNESS WOULD I WANDER
WITH YOU FOREVERMORE...

~9TH C. Irish PROSE/ POETRY
EORANN TO kING SUIBNE

Dimensions: 24x30"
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owned by private collector
​Carmel Valley, CA

drawn from thickets at the Frog Pond Wetlands
Seaside, Ca
there is a mallard pair there now with 6 ducklings {May}
February 2017

The White Stag in a Thicket with the Moon
 the white stag seen this past November and December: Pacific Grove Art Center



sold
to "one-who-rescued-a-lost-rabbit"







dimensions: 36x36"
Acrylic on Canvas

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Please see more about this canvas {below} under "Ulysses". { Bloom's daughter dreams about a horse whose 'name had been Joseph', to whom she had offered a glass of lemonade.......}5/16 

medium: acrylic and collage on canvas
Title: Milly's Dream

dimensions: 20"x24"

sold
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{please see more about me [this canvas] under the heading......... 'Ulysses'}

dimensions: 24"x30"

YGGDRASIL;

THE world  ASH TREE
private collectors
San Antonio, TX


48x36"
acrylic on canvas

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​(the dragon is part of the James Joyce series, from Ulysses)
sold

medium: Acrylic on canvas.      
dimensions: 48x36"
title: Grooming: 10:00 a.m./August 17 at Pt. Lobos {see below}

This painting was done by sketching the pelicans using binoculars.  I had never done that before!  I was able to watch them for so long that it worked out really well and was a lot of fun.  I went back one more time just to draw the ocean.  In between the 2 visits I went and bought myself a really good pair of binoculars and it was so enjoyable.  I am not a plein air artist.  I don't go with canvas and paints, water, brushes, rags, etc. and work outdoors, but I always paint from animals or foliage I have seen on hikes primarily in and around Carmel.

Grooming: 10:00 a.m. august 17 at Pt. Lobos entered in call for artists to have greeting cards made of Pt. Lobos

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the Moorfowl
June, 2015
Dimensions:36x36"
medium: Acrylic on canvas
{drawing of woods from Mission Trail
Carmel, CA}
I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees,
My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees,
My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moorfowl pace
All dripping on a grassy slope, and saw them cease to chase
Each other round in circles, and heard the eldest speak:
Who holds the world between His bill and made us strong or weak
Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.
The rains are from His dripping wing, the moonbeams from His eye.

~excerpt from the Indian Upon God
WB Yeats

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~Donation by artist to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
2016

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The painting is very small, relatively, and a collage.  It is from Field Work, by Seamus Heaney.
September Song {from the Glanmore Sonnets}

title: Our Dog
acrylic and collage on canvas
dimensions: 15x20"

In the middle of the way
under the wet of late September
the ash tree flails,
our dog is tearing earth beside the house.

[however in the painting there is neither a flailing ash tree nor is the dog digging a hole by the house, still....]

In rising ditches the fern subsides.
Rain-logged berries and stones
are rained upon, acorns
shine from grassy verges every morning.

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nGetal the Reed
acrylic and collage on canvas
36x36"
4/17/15

the Frog Pond Wetlands Preserve
Seaside, CA

sold

"Pray at moments of need,
or pray as a love spell deed;
Learning that we have to receive
all that is sent by nGetal the Reed."

~from nGetal the Reed;
Bathing in the Fae's Breath

Boladh na Sioga within the forests
by  Woodland Bard

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the Wolf and the Wonderful Fairy Cow

"But when he arrived home and looked over the yard and the stable and the field, there was no sign nor sight of the cows.  So he grew very sad and dispirited.  But just then he espied in the field three of the most beautiful and strange cows he had ever set eyes on.-----there stood a young, black wolf watching.  Then Connor knew that his friend the wolf had kept his word.  So he let the cows back into the field and there they remained and grew to be the finest in the whole country, and their descendants are flourishing to this day---"

the Edge of the World
~John Lowings

sold

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"This boy here saw a  horse at one time out in the sea, a grey one swimming about.  And there were three men from the north island caught a horse in their nets one night when they were fishing for mackerel, but they let it go; it would have broke the boat to bits if they had brought it in, and anyhow they thought it was best to leave it. ---and between the islands of Aran they can often see the horses galloping about at the bottom....."

{as told to Lady Gregory ,
~Visions and Beliefs of Western Ireland}
Title: Between the Islands of Aran
acrylic on canvas    36x48"
sold 

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• "Every time they landed in the district," writes Seamus Heaney of the 'gypsies', "there was an extra-ness in the air, as if a gate had been left open in the usual life, as if something might get in or get out."
  ~District and Circle
  Seamus Heaney
  a Gate Left Open in the Usual Life
  acrylic on canvas
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  36x48"
• already purchased

now owned by private collectors

"O that we were together,
and my body feathered too;
In light and darkness would I wander
With you forevermore!"

~from 9th c. Irish prose/poetry piece about King Suibne spoken by Eorann to Suibne

36"x48"
Acrylics on canvas
Eorann and Suibne


shown at exhibit Echoes of Play and Peace, Pacific Grove Art Center

​sold 

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Pangur Ban (written by a student of the Monastery of Carinthia on a copy of St. Paul's Epistles around the close of the eighth century, and found in the margins of his copy)

36x48"
acrylic and collage on canvas
Painting donated to be shown for Sunset Center Marjorie Evens gallery, by request for their first annual fundraising auction 2016*

model for Pangur is John boy, my sister's cat in Ashland, Oregon, whom my sister states does not have red and green stripes. ( Cats get red and green stripes when the painter is an expressionist.)

*now in private collection in Philadelphia, or soon to arrive there.......6/16

dedicated to the Irish monks who copied and translated tirelessly, preserving many works of classical literature through centuries of burning libraries, villages, fields, human folk, livestock and centers of culture.  Look up Pangur Ban's poem on line.

"I will give thee a dog which I got in Ireland.  He is huge of limb and a follower equal to an able man.  Morover he hath a man's wit and will bark at thine enemies but never at thine friends.  And he will see by each man's face whether he be ill or well disposed to thee.  And he will lay down his life for thee."

(~from the Icelandic Saga of Nial)
Title: Bran the Fairy Dog
acrylic and collage on canvas
48x36"
sold to private collector, Bay Area, CA

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[...a declaration against the transporting of "Wolfedogges" dated Kilkenny, April 27, 1652]

"Forasmuch as we are credibly informed that wolves do much increase and destroy many cattle in several parts of this dominion, and that some of the enemy's party who have laid down their arms and have liberty to go beyond the seas, and others do attempt to carry away several such great dogges as are commonly called Wolfe Dogges, whereby the breed of them which are useful for destroying wolves would, if not prevented speedily suffer decay, these are therefore to prohibit all persons whatsoever from exporting any of the said dogges out of this dominion."

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the Thicket


acrylic on canvas 48x36"

-from the Irish poem King and Hermit
- 10th c.
privately owned by family of artist
Ashland,Oregon

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the Blackbird of Belfast Loch*

The Little bird has whistled from the tip of his bright yellow beak;
the blackbird
from a bough laden with yellow blossom has tossed a cry over Belfast Lough.
~anon. c. 800

Int en bec ro leic feit
do rind guip glanbuidi; fo-cheird faid os Loch Laig lon do chra

sold to private collector
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Icon: A Tendency to Entertain Archangels
dimensions:36x48"
meduim: acrylic,collage,mixed media on canvas
Luke 1:26-31
{Annunciation}

sold

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dimensions:24x26"
media: mixed media on clayboard
2/11
Woman with tea 

{now in private collection

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Illustration inspired by the 
manuscript,The Book of Lambspring; a rare Hermetic tract

"The unicorn will be the spirit at all times.  The deer desires no other name but that of the soul...He that knows how to tame and master them by art, to couple them together, and to lead them in and out of the forest,............."

- Robert Graves
the White Goddess
36x48"
acrylic on canvas 

sold                                                                                                                                                                

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He lived there in the unsayable lights
He saw the fuchsia in a drizzling noon,
The elderflower at dusk like a risen moon
And green fields greying on the windswept heights
-------His story quickened us, a wild white goose
Heard after dark above the drifted house.

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~excerpt from Seamus Heaney,

the Glanmore Sonnets VI
 the Elderflower at Dusk Like a Risen Moon

36x48"

acrylic on canvas
sold to private collector

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Luke 19:30-34
medium: fibre arts
dimensions framed:15"x19"
Title: If anyone asks you why you are untying it you shall say, the master has need of it

{Palm Sunday}

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Many of my collages contain whole pages and/or sections of  dream diaries, my  journals, prayers, and lists of things to do in my daily life.  In this way I can keep, in some form,these parts of the unconscious with me.  I destroy every journal I write as soon as the notebook is filled, or place them in paintings or in some cases bury them under stairs or behind chimneys, etc. in houses or on grounds where I have lived in.....

{Palm Sunday}
Luke 19:35
medium: fibre arts
dimensions: 13x13" framed
"And they brought it to Jesus and throwing their garments upon the colt, they set Jesus upon it"
sold
in private collection

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media: fibre arts
dimensions: 15x19" framed
John 14:27
Peace I Leave With You
 Sold

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Spectral Fox
colored pencil on paper
1990's
most recently shown at Mercy Retreat Center in Burlingame, CA

I have a history, and a lot of interest in fibre arts and in collage.  I used to do tapestry weaving.  I had to return to painting and drawing though because I am a draw-er.  I can draw , and have since early childhood, and like to do so very much and I missed the exercise of this in my art when I was weaving exclusively.  I was happy with parts of it, raising my own sheep, (on the baby bottle!) and spinning the wool...teaching spinning and weaving in Oregon.  But I am back where I began.  My undergraduate degree is in Fine Arts with a painting emphasis.

Talking Across Earth

dimensions: 30x39"
medium:acrylic and collage on canvas
NFS
portrait of artist's daughter, Bridey

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~"encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me; they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion."
dimensions: 36x48"
media: acrylic and mixed media, collage
2/11 {see below}       now in private collection

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Icon of the Lilies of the Field
dimensions: 36x48"
medium:acrylic on canvas
Mt. 6:28,9

property of the Sisters of Mercy

Mercy Retreat Center, Burlingame, CA

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"Because of the non-religious meaning of the term magic I prefer to call it numinous realism: a realism that depicts ordinary things, ordinary persons, ordinary events, but it is a numinous realism.  It depicts them in a way that makes them strange, mysterious, laden with an ambiguous power.  Much primitive art has this power."   - Karl Rahner

What is it Like?

dimensions:30x40"
meduim: acrylic on canvas
{"the kingdom of heaven is like....."}


Luke 13:20

{now owned by a private owner and on loan to artist for exhibit at Mercy Retreat Center, Burlingame, CA until New Years Eve, 2013}

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The Source of Uncreated Light

dimensions:24x30"
acrylic and collage on canvas
(shown in process )
Exodus 3:1-4
{the burning bush}
sold
going to Cincinnati New Years Eve!


6/2010

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Jesus Dreams of Holding the Pale infant of an Aquatic Mammal, and Sees a Fowl Whose Entire Life Was Lived in a Wire Cage {private collection}
dimensions: 25x36"
acrylic and collage on canvas board
Mark 4:35-38
1/2010
 sold

in private collection

{images of the animals were 'seen' by artist when painting was finished and composition was just being studied by me for final adjustments, altering the title and drastically affecting the meaning of the painting}

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Boy With Hare
dimensions: 40x40"
medium: acrylic on canvas
NFS

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 Holy Communion of the Streets
dimensions: 38x47"
medium: acrylic, mixed media,collage




{sold}
private collector San francisco, CA

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Leo
dimensions:19x30"
medium:
watercolor on paper {private collection}

{owned by husband of the artist, Paul Wrightman, birthday present 1987}

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Hansel and Gretel -medium: acrylic on paper sold -in private collection

Rumplestilskin
dimensions:28x22"
medium: acrylic on canvas board

canvas damaged
NFS

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Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
dimensions:21x17"
medium: acrylic on canvas board




sold

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Sleeping Beauty
dimensions: 18x24"
medium: acrylic on canvas board

sold

in private collection

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Call/Negation/Coercion/Sanctuary

Acrylic and collage on canvas
Dimensions:24"x30"
1/11

{Jonah and the whale}
in private collection

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 Jesus with a Lamb

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  Jesus holding a sparrow

dimensions: 48x36"        
medium: acrylic on canvas
private collection
Luke 12:6

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Icon: The Parable of the Mustard Seed
medium: acrylic on canvas
dimensions: not documented
Matthew 13:31,32
private collection

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