{"id":1261,"date":"2011-03-04T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2011-03-04T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:29:44","slug":"wild-mustard-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/04\/wild-mustard-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Mustard March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/24b-wildmustardmarch.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-491\" title=\"24b.wildmustardMarch\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/24b-wildmustardmarch.jpg?resize=590%2C229\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>The teeter-totter ride continued this week with nearly two inches of rain one day and 6o degree weather the next and persistent fog yesterday, glorious sunshine this morning and rain in the forecast for tomorrow.\u00a0 I guess that\u2019s the very definition of spring, a combustible, unpredictable radiant time.\u00a0 Spring just might be my favorite season\u2026but I\u2019ll probably say the same about summer when it approaches and again when we are on the cusp of autumn.\u00a0 It reminds me of being pregnant, at first I was just enjoying being pregnant, the joy of anticipation was wonderful, the excitement splendid, but as the due date came closer and I became more weighted down and uncomfortable I was ready for the change.\u00a0 I think it must be nature\u2019s way of helping you get past the fear of labor, you\u2019re just so fed up being pregnant that you\u2019re ready for anything.\u00a0 The changing of the seasons is like that.\u00a0 Especially for me the transitions from winter to spring, and summer to autumn.\u00a0 Enough already with the sweaters and the layers, I say, enough with the cups of tea and blankets. Oh how fickle, it wasn\u2019t that long ago that I couldn\u2019t stand my sandals another day and broke out my boots just a little too early for either fashion&#8217;s fancy or weather&#8217;s wisdom. \u00a0But this week I put on my rain boots and windbreaker in search of the essence of spring.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who have followed my work over the year know that before I came to live at the Bishop\u2019s Ranch, some 15 years ago, my art work was mostly figurative and social\/emotional in nature (and perhaps a bit self involved, as young artist tend to be).\u00a0 When I moved to the Ranch and had a baby my art floated, not floundered, but it wasn\u2019t grounded in who and where I was.\u00a0 A seasonal shift had happened in my life that I hadn\u2019t observed in my art.\u00a0 Miraculously I was gifted a trip by a wonderful man, John Weaver, who seemed to sense I needed a shove into the next season of my life. \u00a0He arranged for a trip to France to paint in the fields of the Midi Pyrenees, where the Fauvist had reigned, relaxing at an artist colony for a week!\u00a0 I came back with a new appreciation of the simplicity of documenting the beauty around me that set me on a hundred plus painting series of scenes from the area.\u00a0 The practice of landscape painting lead me to observations of time and place that had eluded me before.\u00a0 It also gave a great sense of anticipation for the coming glories, waiting for the daffodils to bloom or the grasses to turn gold or the leaves to change red.\u00a0 After five years of almost exclusive landscape painting I began to feel an itch for something new.\u00a0 Much to the dismay of some of my fans here at The Bishop\u2019s Ranch I stopped painting landscapes.\u00a0 I missed the puzzle and problem solving of my previous work I wanted a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>But this week the landscape called me back with its own challenge, to convey the whole of this place in this moment of time.\u00a0 To show this first week of March, like no other and yet perennial and faithful. 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