http://www.elizabethbradford.com/blog/my-old-friend/ art and life Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:09:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.elizabethbradford.com/blog/my-old-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Peg Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:03:08 +0000 http://www.elizabethbradford.com/blog/?p=683#comment-259 "...color like a bucket of jewels." I can see how that would appeal to you. Some of my favorite pieces of yours are paintings in which color jolts me out of complacency. Just today I moved "Ashe County Dirt" from one spot in my dining room to a more prominent spot, where the golden skeletons of the leaves lift off the canvas and refuse to let that hussy of a magnolia pod (is that the right word) steal the show. I know very little about art except that it moves me. I love seeing it and experiencing it through you, in a medium I can grasp - the written word. “…color like a bucket of jewels.” I can see how that would appeal to you. Some of my favorite pieces of yours are paintings in which color jolts me out of complacency. Just today I moved “Ashe County Dirt” from one spot in my dining room to a more prominent spot, where the golden skeletons of the leaves lift off the canvas and refuse to let that hussy of a magnolia pod (is that the right word) steal the show. I know very little about art except that it moves me. I love seeing it and experiencing it through you, in a medium I can grasp – the written word.

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