Author Archives: Susan
Think Outside The Box
ORIGINAL SOLD Story coming soon.
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Peace Comes From Within
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE Siddhārtha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, said, “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” Buddhists believe people can live in peace and harmony only if we abandon negative emotions such as anger in our minds and cultivate positive emotions such as love and compassion. In a time when people have become accustomed [...]
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Even Silence Speaks
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE The Hausa are a Sahelian people chiefly located in the West African region of Nigeria. I didn’t know that when I searched for words to describe this piece. I chose the Hausa Proverb “Even silence speaks” because when I took this photo there was not a twig, not a creature, not a wisp [...]
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Sweet Goodbye To Winter
25 years ago when our children were small, my husband tapped a few maples on a friends property, and every night in the spring he’d haul home a bucket of sap. We boiled it down in a big kettle on a cinderblock firepit out in the front yard. The kids would sit around the sweet [...]
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Guide To Maine juried Art Festivals and Fairs
Three years ago as a new artist to hit the “fair network” I spent hours on the internet looking for links to Maine Art Festivals and Fairs. Often I went to the show listing of artists that I knew, and tried to glean information from there. I was only interested in juried events, but even [...]
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Bedtime Story
ORIGINAL SOLD The origins of bedtime storytelling are as old as time. Before the invention of writing, stories were memorized and passed along orally from generation to generation. Bedtime stories ease children (and adults) from the hectic daylight hours to the quieter time of night. I have many fond memories of reading to my own 3 [...]
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Where’s Bullwinkle?
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE This drawing originated from a series of tree photographs taken in a Bonsai museum. As with most trees and I, faces evolved as the drawing progressed. With no title in mind, I put the piece on Facebook and held a “naming contest”. Someone wrote, “I see Bullwinkle!” Bullwinkle the moose and Rocky the [...]
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“Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost”
ORIGINAL SOLD This title comes from a verse in JRR Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” that reads in part; “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.” As a fan of Tolkien, this [...]
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Maine Jewelry & Art is open in Bangor, Maine!
Rather than write a post about the store, you should just visit this link. This is an enthusiastic and talented bunch of folks who have ignored the face of the economy and gone out on a limb to open a new business on Harlow Street in downtown Bangor, Maine. These people held their opening wine and cheese night in [...]
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The Totems of Winter
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE (11 x 14 Ink and Watercolor) The first totems were carved from mature cedars in the Pacific Northwest, and they were carved to represent the emblem of a family as a reminder of its history. Though sometimes considered guardians, totems did not represent gods, and were not objects of worship. This drawing began [...]
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“Gawk” (Gok)- “to gaze or stare stupidly”
ORIGINAL SOLD I drove past a tree one day that looked like a voluptuous woman with flowing hair. The way my mind works when it comes to trees, I immediately pictured all the other surrounding trees being male…and spending their days staring in her general direction….dreaming about her flowing hair and shapely root-legs. To “gawk” [...]
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Refusal to Surrender
ORIGINAL SOLD This piece is dedicated to my friend Mary. She went through a wrenching divorce that tested her wits, her finances, her patience, her children, her beliefs, and her very existence. Only by sheer tenacity did she cling to the hope that somehow she would survive if she could just get through another day, and then [...]
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“Maine Jewelry & Art” opens in Bangor, Maine
Next week, a new store called “Maine Jewelry & Art will be opening in downtown Bangor, Maine. Featuring amazing jewelry by Riverside Jewelry Designs/Amanda Coburn, dichroic glass jewelry by Ymir Glass Design, and several other wonderful jewelers, Tree Art by YOURS TRULY, Heartwood Artist, hilarious mugs and jugs by talented clay artist Steve Weslow, fabulous Found Metal Sculpture by [...]
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“Forget your sunscreen today, Harry?”
ORIGINAL SOLD The original of this piece won a purchase prize at the Winthrop, Maine Art Festival in 2010. A Purchase Prize is a wonderful thing, because it means that at the beginning of the day you know one of your original trees has sold…and gets to wear a beautiful ribbon all day. This original [...]
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“He says his name is Longfellow”
ORIGINAL SOLD I was scheduled to do a show at Longfellows Greenhouses in Manchester, Maine in the fall of 2009, and often when I do a show that’s smaller and more personal I try to do a piece that’s specific to that location. There’s not a lot of story to tell….although I originally intended to [...]
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The Meeting of the Magical Flutes
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE Kokopelli, or the magical flute player, dates back over 3,000 years in the American Southwest, when the first petroglyps were carved into rocks. Known as a fertility god, prankster, healer, and storyteller, it is said that the hunch on his back depicted the sack of seeds and songs that he carried everywhere he [...]
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You Are Never Lost If You Don’t Care Where You Are
ORIGINAL SOLD My husband, Steve, sometimes watches a show called “Gold Fever”. It’s about a man who travels all through the mountains of the west, panning for gold. This an has turned his passion into a lucrative career, with a cameraman who follows him into remote wilderness and films his every move. He’s not a [...]
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The Bodhi Tree
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE More than 2,500 years ago a man named Siddartha in ancient India began seeking a way to understand the meaning of life. He meditated under the Bodhi Tree for 7 weeks. On the sunrise of the 49th day he found his answer: the cause of all suffering is greed, selfishness, and stupidity. If [...]
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2010 Show Season Ends
A long but wonderful art festival and craft show season ended last weekend at the Sullivan Gym in South Portland. I sold the original of “Dances with Trees”, which was one of the trees that began my new career as “the Tree Woman”. Today was the first morning in months where I woke up and it [...]
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother