{"id":30,"date":"2015-01-30T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2015-09-23T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:55:06","slug":"artist-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/artist-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been involved in painting and photography for over 40 years. I always enjoyed the creative process since I was a small child. I enjoy painting the world around me so therefore many of my paintings are of landscapes and flowers. I paint mostly in watercolor, Acrylic and pastels.<\/p>\n

I love to travel and I am a travel consultant. I take many photographs on our many trips throughout the world. I paint from these photographs and also do some plein air painting on trips when time permits.<\/p>\n

For me painting is meditating. It is my quiet time to sit with myself and feel emotions- letting thoughts come and go. It is the celebration of life and a way to express my feelings for nature and the beauty of God\u2019s world. Painting paths I\u2019ve walked and places I have been keeps my memories alive and brings back the place, path or person to my mind.<\/p>\n

Photography allows me the opportunity to share my travel experiences with others. I love all the diversity of sights and sounds and try to have my photographs reflect the joy I feel when I am traveling.<\/p>\n

I have studied at the College of Marin. I have taken years of photography and art classes there with fabulous teachers. I have studied with Jackie Kirk, Connie Siegel, Carol Bacon, Judy North, Barbara Lawrence and Julie Cohn.<\/p>\n

I have shown locally at The Marin Art and Garden Center, The Two Bird Caf\u00e9 and San Geronimo Cultural Center.<\/p>\n

I have served on the Board of the Marin Art and Garden Center for two years in the past. I am a docent for the Marin Artist Society.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.\u201d<\/em>
\nGeorgia O’Keeffe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been involved in painting and photography for over 40 years. I always enjoyed the creative process since I was a small child. I enjoy painting the world around me so therefore many of my paintings are of landscapes and flowers. I paint mostly in watercolor, Acrylic and pastels. I love to travel and … Continue reading Artist Statement<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beckerleytravel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}