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Great Shows and Wonderful Glows

by Sherry Jo Horton Fine Art on 3/30/2009 11:25:48 PM
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"Passages" oil on canvas 12x34
The exhibit at the Barnard's Mill Museum and Art Gallery was very enjoyable and I had a great room in which to hang.  I was blessed to reconnect with a number of friends and collectors.  We operated my studio/gallery in Glen Rose, Texas for about 10 years.  We were located in a wonderful, hundred year old building built of local fossilized stone.  A volunteer Bluebonnet plant filled the planter outside the front entrance the year before we left, and now the seeds have traveled and are blooming in the cracks in the sidewalk in front of the door.  It was a great place, with many visitors; squirrels that would climb down the stone walls occasionally, lizards of all sizes, a wren that built a nest in a planter inside the gallery, and the occasion small to medium sized snake.  A young opossum came calling one night while I was working late.  So many stories from those wonderful years......

I drove to the Dinosaur Valley State Park on Sunday morning to visit my river, the Paluxy, before the Sunday families arrived at the park.  What a beauty in the glow of the morning light.  What wonderful sounds as I stood in the midst of three small waterfalls listening to the flow with my eyes closed.

The painting in progress is more remembrance than real as so many times in the past I sat on a rock in the middle of the river as nightfall moved in, or at midnight, listening and taking in the peace.  This painting will be perhaps more dreamlike in it's completion - a collage of memories and experiences on my river.  SJo

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