The show at Pacific Grove Art Center opened Friday night Sept. 7. It is now Called the River, Night and Mourning. The solo exhibit is a tribute to my sister Deborah Louise Moore Holden who died a year ago. Most of the paintings are from close to the time of her death and the year following it. I am celebrating her life, and trusting in Providence in all matters regarding her death; in painting that has often taken the form of painting the Carmel River and not-so-far-off waterways of the Monterey Peninsula. Please check out their times and drop in to share with me as I remember my sister in my art work, which she always loved...
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Upcoming exhibits: Mercy Retreat Center in Burlingame, CA May and June 2018 {Paul and I together} Pacific Grove Art Center Sept. and Oct. 2018 "Lights along Yeat's River Road" "Without sentimentality or moralization but with the melancholy of the dejected. Detached disillusionment fills his shadowy world; dark but always human..." 1901
Re: Toulouse Lautrec ~Movements in Modern Art |
" I have never written of it until now, and hardly ever spoken of it, and even when thinking , because of some unreasoning impulse, I have avoided giving it weight in the argument. Perhaps I have felt that my recollections of things seen when the sense of reality was weakened must be untrustworthy. A few months ago however, I talked it over with my 2 friends, and compared their somewhat meager recollections with my own. That sense of unreality was........."
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Elizabeth Wrightman lives in Carmel, CA with her husband Paul who is serving as Pastor of Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula. He is also a painter. Their studio work is done in the home, the nearby manse of Community Church, or frequently out of doors . Both Paul and Elizabeth are ordained in the United Church of Christ and Elizabeth has taught painting and drawing classes at the church and is presently working full time as an artist. Her call in ministry was primarily that of serving as a hospital chaplain in Pittsburgh., PA.
"Dufy turned into himself and uses his gaiety to enliven so slender a prop as the corner of a room showing a small table..."
Movements in Modern Art
Movements in Modern Art
mixed media on canvas $2000