Chopin Tulips

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"As beautiful as a Chopin nocturne, these creamy beauties were found in the sidewalk gardens of midtown Manhattan. Spring is a wonderful time to visit New York City." - Nancy Boudreau, April 27nd 2011

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This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Red Maple in November

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While jogging last weekend, my wandering attention was captured by the sight of a flaming-red maple crowning a green lawn. The contrast of blue sky and gray bare branches further emphasized this ecstasy of light and color. Backlit leaves are the stained glass of my wild cathedral.

- Nancy Boudreau

This painting is 10 x 12.73 inches and is acrylic on gessoed panel, framed. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated. Please contact me directly at nb@nboudreau.com, if you're interested in owning this painting.

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Wind on Bennett's Pond

A view of Bennett's Pond in Ridgefield Connecticut, hiking along the Ives Trail, on the western edge of the pond facing east. Wind ripples the surface of terraced water levels, the work of beavers. A fallen trunk, the base sculpted, chiseled by incisors, now used as an elevated platform from which rodent kings observe their domain. The single drowned maple, stands in the foreground as if thrust into the water like a javelin heaved by Paul Bunyan from towns away.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

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November Sunset 1

In northwest Connecticut, November is the month of sunrises and sunsets. Leaves drop in the last week of October and by the first week of November the sky is suddenly exposed. Day length and the set of the clock aligns sunrise and sunset with commuting hours, when dazzling distractions cause traffic jams. In this painting, the center of New Fairfield, looking east, clouds are momentarily washed with luminous hues I cannot reproduce.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Acorns and Oak Leaves

A different technique here, carving the image out of a gray middleground. The brush is used like a chisel or pencil with shadows pushing the surface away and highlights pulling the surface forward. The subject of acorns is loaded. There's a super abundance of acorns in the northwest hills of Connecticut this year, impossible to ignore. Walking through the woods, they roll under foot, in a subversive way. I compare them to ideas, little nuggets of truth that are sometimes inconvenient, though fruitful, full of potential. Most are consumed with little result, some take root and grow into impressive trees/structures/organizations. We, the artists and writers, are acorns scattered on the internet.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Quaker Brook at Haviland Hollow

An October battleground between light and dark, the lowering angle of the sun displaying increasing weakness as cold and shadows begin to take over a little more each day. Despite brightly lit leaves passing from chartruese to yellow, it's almost impossible to feel anything but a pessimistic sense of loss this time of year. The myth of Persephone's abduction by Hades comes to mind.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Reflections on Squantz Pond

Squantz Pond in New Fairfield, Connecticut during the first week of October. Hike down the fire trail from Pine Hill to find this view, accompanied by the sounds of the water lapping and wind in the trees.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Path to the Cornfield

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Driving north through the Berkshires, cornfields stretched dry and yellow under the blue sky, the hills mottled in greens and rust, painted blue and lavender with distance.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Acorns

Listen to them falling, dropping through the leaves, gathering on the side of the road.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 4 x 4 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Yesterday's Painting

. . . is today's still life, with an apricot.

- Nancy Boudreau

This painting is about 5.5 x 7.5 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

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Good Night Phoenix

The last in a series of paintings inspired by a recent visit to Arizona, this time unique in that the subjects were urban, downtown, a new venue for me. Standing in a hotel room, watching the sun set beyond the window, the reflection caught my attention. How contemporary, to see through so much glass. Landscapes through windows - this is how most Americans see the world today. Perceiving life as layers of reflection, separate from the actual thing. Reality has become a mind-game of perceptions - or was it always so?

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 5.5 x 7.5 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Downtown Phoenix Sunset 10

Second to last in a series of paintings done of downtown Phoenix, Arizona, showing the sunset hues as they wash the architecture of this urban heart of the Sonoran Desert.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Downtown Phoenix Sunset 6

The pool railing was left out of this painting as it detracted from the subject. The geometry and wide range of ephemeral colored light make Phoenix sunsets a unique sight to behold.

- Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Crossing Cave Creek

Tiptoe across the stones to sun washed sandbars. This is the Dragonfly Trail on Cave Creek, Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area in the Desert Foothills Land Trust, Cave Creek Arizona. - Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

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