Betsy Krebs
PO Box 564, Chestertown, NY 12817
Phone: 518-260-5405
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Birds of a Feather Studio and Gallery
6375 State Route 9
Chestertown,NY 12817
“Ella Mae Norton meets Georgia O’Keeffe” 30”X40”, oil paint, water slide decals. This mixed medium image shows the visage of Georgia O’Keeffe and the weather vane from the Old Stone School House. The image is named after a local woman who, as a girl was playing in a sand pit off Middle Road where the School House is located. Georgia O’Keeffe was on her daily walk and as thestory goes, warned the girls there that the sand pit could collapse.
I met Ella Mae as an older woman, at an art opening I was hosting for my students that painted with me at the school house and she visited and told the story.
Additional Information
Moments of the day became my friend, fast yet changing, yielding to the temporal, delicate light in my rooms, I started to ponder and “ruminate”. A frozen world of my own personal feelings evolved and pooled within, contemplating the world, politics, trends etc. Hunger for life, color, freedom, tribal connection, love, growth, positivity, abundance and happiness swirled in my thoughts.
The paintings in this show represent how I spent my time during the pandemic.
Focus was undeniably easy. Everything seemed to have an undisturbed awkward presence in my holed up world. I started to feel grateful and thankful for the smaller things that were givens, like the sunlight and the everyday things that surround me. The kitchen, the light dancing over my counter of daily sundry chach, kept me innately focused on its new beauty. It somehow seemed very satisfying, somewhat beautiful, and a definite path away from the daily scourge of the current politics and sickness.
Light heals.
Materials and Medium
- Oil on Canvas
