Oil Paintings China and its People
China is a magnificent country. While my husband had to speak at an international meeting, I spent my time catching the beauty of that land and its people, its colors and sights. I then turned these sketches into oil paintings.
View from the River Li
1998 Oil on Canvas 16″ x 20″ unframed $2000 Contact to Purchase The river is wide and brown and runs swiftly to the south past simple farms where water buffalo idle and gaggles of ducks scramble. Cormorant fishermen pole their slim rafts and hail the tourists leaning over ship railings. Behind the green hills tower the blue and purple, foggy limestone towers. They are fantastic in their variety, and were it not for my paintings, I might suspect I only imagined them.
Reflections
1998 Oil on Canvas 16″ x 20″ unframed Sold An aura of incense surrounded this monk, though he was in prayer and never noticed. The indirect light filtering in softened everything and made the brilliant colors more startling. I felt God was truly present there.
City Park
1998 Oil on Canvas 11″ x 14″ unframed $1200 Contact to Purchase In the heart of Guilin, lies a wonderful park, whose center is a delightful lake mantled with flowers. The contrast of tranquility with the noise and bluster of the city was overpowering.
Traditions
1998 Oil on Canvas 11″ x 14″ unframed $1200 Contact to Purchase Thanks to our plane’s stopping in Japan, we were able to spend a few hours touring there. The beauty of a Japanese formal garden with lovely Geisha girls strolling about summarized the heart of that industrial nation.
Tomb of the Mongolian Princess
1998 Oil on Canvas 16″ x 20″ unframed Sold We traveled by rickety bus from the regal city of Hohhot to the tomb of Ghengis Khan. On the way we stopped to pay homage to the Mongolian Princess whose marriage, centuries ago, united two nations. Mongolians still come to pay homage to their princess.