this old painting i did decades ago now hangs in my room beneath a shelf of plush lions, tigers & bears.. it's an inner child themed storybook style watercolor called 'escape' based on a grand dream from childhood in which we snuck out our window one night & rowed away in a little rowboat toward the big full moon.. i love that it's in my room now, it was like foreshadowing, from that little corner of the room under the window to this room now where i look out my window at the moon & all the surrounding trees & green, we finally did it, we ran away up to the snow & the trees & the river, & we didn't have to say goodbye to our beloved kitties, we took them all with us <3 this is one of the first paintings i put up in my ghost gallery hallway up at my gumbyland & gallery website 20 something years ago ~
this carousel horse painting now hangs in our stairwell gallery ~
along with several others ~
like this cold comfort scene ~
i've enjoyed being able to display my art around the house ~
from the stairwell gallery to the toy room ~
like these frog & toad paintings i did for my son's room when he was small ~
& of course gumby ~
so art has been a kind of therapy for me all my life ~
it's always been a way for me to express the things i couldn't say in words ~
who knew i'd end up filling an entire online gallery ~
from studies & drawings to abstracts ~
it's been a blast trying out every creative idea over all the years ~
& having fun with filters & photoshop digital effects ~
creating entire themed art albums ~
i had to add on a second ghost gallery hallway ~
moving on to full installations ~
or what i often call dollscapes ~
& eventually adding on a third ghost gallery hallway made up of entire albums ~
that i call the rows of never opened doors ~
this page leads to the ghost gallery or specifically to the rows of never opened doors ~
click the links in this post for more, & please come in & visit anytime you are curious ~
lastly, here's an old self portrait i did as part of an art studies course ~
