Peg Fowler

How could any show that emphasizes TREES leave out the “Wood-Trolls?”  Well, it can’t.  So they are now gathering in corners of my house as well as in the studio. 

I love these little guys.  It only gets creepy when they start to look like old boyfriends.

Woo Hoo!  I’m scheduled to show at West Nebraska Arts Center in August–which is only 2 and a half short months away.  Good Grief!  Well, I have my Australia/New Zealand collection and a brand new series on TREES (including Tree Spirits and Wood Trolls.)  Here’s a couple new Tree things.

"Bog Trees"

 Troll and Spirit pics coming soon.  Maybe even a sculpture or two–although I definitely have a love/hate relationship with chicken-wire.

"Bluestone Path, Truby King Asylum Grounds"

“Fat Chick with Attitude”     36″x 48″   oil on canvass.   Stretched, no frame.  Set out with the trash, Naples, Florida, February or March 2012.

(THEO Van Gogh should have his own  fan club. Maybe he does.)

Fat Chick with Attitude

Every once in a while I get into a terrible state of the “dulls.”  Nothing works well, nothing looks good, nothing is even art-work.  I might as well go eat worms.

Here’s how I work myself out of the pit:  I take a small piece and work the poor sucker to death.  Then if I still haven’t recovered, I throw it away or (if it’s not quite that bad) put it on my “dump-pile.” (This is not as bad as it sounds…sometimes I go back and look again and rework the stuff, or cut it up, or salvage it somehow.)  Anyhow, here are the variations as well as the two quickies that show me coming out of my funk.

Variation 1

Variation 2

Variation 3

variation #4

Storm across the field

Storm across the field #2

An old rancher  told me when I first came to the Nebraska high plains that anyplace there was a tree on the prairie, that was the mark of a place where people once lived.  I thought he was kidding me (he wasn’t above teasing) but it’s true.  Settlers wanted trees.  And they watered them and cherished them.  And when they starved out, as many did, they left their trees behind.

Streambed Trees

Snowbank Trees

Prairie Grove