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
“Cabbage tree, Dendroseris Litoralis ”, 30”x40”, oil on canvas with water slide decals. The story of this majestic plant is added to the boarder to read.
The Story of the Cabbage tree is a small evergreen speeches belonging to the daisy sunflower family.It is endemic to only one place on the earth, Juan Fernandez Islands, west of Chile. From 1704-1709 the island was home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, who at least partially inspired novelist Daniel Defoe’s fictional Robinson Crusoe.
This image is part of a piece created as an artist resident for the University of Minnesota. It focuses of their rare plant collection and E.O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus and Curator in Entomology Harvard. ‘
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
