The Jim Show, A Tribute to Artist and Friend

It was with much gratitude that I was asked to be a part of a special

Art Exhibition honoring a local artist and 

friend who died last summer.

This weekend the home of artist Jim Julin who died suddenly last year
 after a short illness was filled to the brim with artists and their artwork
celebrating Jim's life as an artist, craftsmen and friend.

Jim Julin

                                     

I created the drawing and poem 'A Giant Fell Today' just a few days after Jim died last year as a way to express what I was feeling at the time. When I learned of the 'Jim Show' being put together in his memory this summer, I knew that this is what I was to contribute.


The pieces were placed in a shadow box and pinned
bulletin board style as a tribute to a man with a generous spirit.

                                                                                   artist Ramona Felse

Garment made from several pairs of Jim's jeans as a gift to his sister.

in the window a pine tree that Jim planted.

Several pieces of Jim's work were included.

 Every piece in the show was created with Jim's creative spirit in mind.

A gathering of friends,
and love,
and art.

July and spending time with "family"

The hot days of July are best spent near the water.

goose neck loosestrife

White geese run down the hill to the raspberries.

raspberries

Lovely June

In the grey summer garden I shall find you   

 With day-break and the morning hills behind you.   

There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings;   

And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings.   

Not from the past you'll come, but from that deep

Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep:   

And I shall know the sense of life re-born   

From dreams into the mystery of morn   

Where gloom and brightness meet. And standing there   

Till that calm song is done, at last we'll share

The league-spread, quiring symphonies that are   

Joy in the world, and peace, and dawn’s one star.

Idyll- by Siegfried Sassoon

Wishing you all an abundance of sunshine, good health,

safe travels and long warm summer days. 

New paintings for spring

 Emerging from a monochrome

winter,

color finds its way

into new paintings

Late spring drawings