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Given the opportunity, children often enjoy climbing trees.  Of course, clinging to the tree's trunk is much safer than moving out onto a branch or limb; in fact, the farther the climber moves out away from the trunk, the greater the likelihood that the limb will bend or break and the climber will take a tumble.

While the idiom "out on a limb" is not commonly applied to artists, risk taking is certainly ingredient to an artist's existence.  The risk taking begins with the artist's first response to the creative urge and expands with explorations of media, processes, techniques, and styles.  The risk taking continues with the mining of one's internal and external geographies for inspiration, as well as the vulnerability of sending work out into the world.

This month's mini gallery showcases work that focuses on the subject of trees.  Viewers are invited to use the selections as opportunity to consider how these artists might have gone "out on a limb" in responding to their creative callings,developing their craft, seeking inspiration, and releasing their work into the world.   Look for places of commonality and difference among these artists' approaches and between their approaches and your own.  Use the theme as opportunity to move toward heightened awareness of how your own creative process leads you "out on a limb."
 

Linda Witte Henke, Guest Curator

http://www.lindahenke.com


List of selected works.  The curator has specified the order of images for this gallery. 

 

Many Winters
Jo Diggs    

In the Bleak Midwinter
Ruth Powers  

Birches in Black and White
Ann Loveless  

Waiting out Winter
Linda Beach

Reaching
Doria A. Goocher

Spring Woods
Virginia Abrams

Trees Singing
Wen Redmond

Children of the Earth I
Carol Watkins

Summer Light
Nelda Warkentin

Little Lake Butte de Morts in Summer
Gwyned Trefethen

Aspen Grove
Patty Hawkins

Cedar Swamp 4
Pat Bishop

After the Storm II
Cindi Huss

Poplar
Martha Cole

Olive Orchard
Betty Ford

Forest Walk
Pat Durbin

Au Lac de Montsalvens
Grietje Van der Veen

For 4 Who Stood Tall
Kathie Briggs

Indian Summer
Marianne R. Williamson

Aglow
Anna Hergert

 

 

 

GALLERIES

Out on a Limb


KATHIE BRIGGS
FOR 4 WHO STOOD TALL

VIRGINIA ABRAMS
SPRING WOODS
Photo by self

LINDA BEACH
WAITING OUT WINTER

PAT BISHOP
CEDAR SWAMP 4

ANN LOVELESS
BIRCHES IN BLACK AND WHITE

DORIA A. GOOCHER
REACHING (#2 ROOTS SERIES)

PATTY HAWKINS
ASPEN GROVE

BETTY FORD
OLIVE ORCHARD

ANNA HERGERT
AGLOW

PAT DURBIN
FOREST WALK

GRIETJE VAN DER VEEN
AU LAC DE MONTSALVENS

JO DIGGS
MANY WINTERS

CINDI HUSS
AFTER THE STORM II
 
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