Your Life as Art
Making a Home into a Painting
During this time of convalescence, I am somewhat confined to my home base for painting subjects. I cannot possibly consider this a restriction though, because over the last 30 years, Ann and I have been slowly, intentionally transforming it to be a grand painting subject. Monet’s example was but one of our early inspirations for what might be done by artists with a nose for plants, trees, space organization and ecology—given enough time. Before we even bought this property, we were engaged in learning everything we could about those subjects.
We also understood that Monet had considerably more financial resources to draw upon than we in creating his gardens and famous lily pond. Our property is largely forested and hilly, so we have worked with that and given up the notion that a big lily pond would be very practical. Instead, we decided to learn all about trees, build paths and manage our forest so that it would become aesthetically more beautiful…
