A Pilgrimage of “Meetings”

Estuary on Ice Study, 2016

Tomorrow my husband and I leave for Amsterdam and Paris.  I am going to meet masters and mentors in person.  Paintings.  The largest gathering of Edouard Manet and Odilon Redon, Cezanne, Pissarro, Sisley and others I have been studying for decades.  I will have long immersive days at the Musee d’Orsay and Louvre.  I am thrilled and humbled by what the experiences of finally meeting these paintings in person will gift me with and open my heart to.  Added to this will be time at the Centre Pompidu where the largest exhibit and retrospective ever seen of Anselm Kiefer’s work is being shown through the beginning of April.   When I return to Amsterdam my Dutch artist friend has arranged a trip to the Het Noordbrabants Museum in the amazing town of s’Hertogenbosch a 2-hour train ride south of Amsterdam to view the once in 500 year exhibit of Hieronimus Bosch which is up until the 8th of May.

When I return I will be launching my periodic mailing of “The Wit(h)nessing Muse” another step in my unfolding as an artist.