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Art in Romania
Recovering from Covid a few years ago I did not have the energy to stand at an easel and paint, my favorite healing practice. So I tried acrylic painting because I could sit down and paint whatever came to my mind. Acrylic paint dries very quickly so changes are easy, and a satisfying painting can be created much more quickly than with oil paint. But after years of making art of many kinds this was my first acrylic experiment, and I made a lot of errors. However, during the end of the time in Romania I was invited by my hosts Catalina and Catalin Ivan and their three daughters, Alexandra, Teodora, and Victoria (my unofficial Romanian goddaughters since we met seven years ago) to visit the studio of the most famous artist in Romania, Felix Aftene. I had seen an exhibit of his work at the Palace of Culture in Iași three years ago, and this year at the new airport. Continue reading →

Dublin, Amsterdam, and Marseille – Spring 2017

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Speaking in Ireland, attending the Annual General Meeting in Amsterdam, sharing the Value of Concentration, and then Montessori in France

Dublin
Arriving in Dublin I was taken immediately to the tower, now the James Joyce Museum, where the beginning of the book “Ulysses” takes place. That experience has inspired me to give the book just one more chance and I am now on page 20 and enjoying it. Also in Dublin I saw the Book of Kells which has been on my “to do” list for many years, the National Museum, the Chester Beatty Library Collection, and had two shows of my own art. Continue reading →