SABBATICAL CONTINUES 2013
California, Vermont, Maine & Italy
Palo Alto, California
My mom, beginning her third year in hospice
My mom’s “family gallery”
Maine: Cushing, Penobscot Bay, Deer Isle, the Barred Islands
Sunrise over the St. George River
The St. George River from my house in Cushing Maine
The Barred Islands
The Barred Islands’ Conservation Easement
Sunset over Penobscot Bay
Manchester, VermontWickham family house from 1837
Sorting the family spoons
The Green Mountains and the Battenkill River Valley
Holly on the heights
San Marco Monastery
Fra Angelico Frescoes in San MarcoThe Annunciation, the Nativity in a monk’s cell
Masaccio Frescoes @ San Carmine
Florence from the heights of the Boboli Gardens
Spannochia: 12th century farm & artists’ workshop
Southwest of Siena in the mountains
Spannochia Terrace and View
12th century Torre farmhouse - my bedroom and view
Our art studio and the chapel
Farmhouse terrace & stairs
My drawing of the monument oak
San Galgano Hermitage, inside & out
San Galgano Cistercian Monastery Ruin
Duccio di Boninsegna’s 14th century altarpiece, La Maesta
Some of my Spannochia art workshop participants in Siena’s Campo
Tuscan Hill TownsVolterra
2nd Century BCE Etruscan sarcophagus in Volterra
Back on the farm12th century Torre farmhouse
My fanciful version
Spannochia barnyard
Three-line dooryard sketch exercise
My studio work space
View of Torre farmhouse from the Spannochia castle terrace
Tadeo di Bartolo Altar – Coronation of the Virgin – Montepulciano Duomo
Montepulciano on its hill
The living Benedictine monastery of Monte Olivetto Maggiore
Cloister and Luca Signorelli’s fresco of St. Benedict
Spannochia - a working farmsustainable oak harvest, vineyards & olive orchards
Spannochia’s rare breed of Cinta Senese pigs
Assisi – St. Francis’ hometown
Assisi – hillside town of archways and piazzas
Churches, the Virgin, Francis are everywhere in Assisi
And of course, St. Francis’ huge Basilica
San Damiano in the olive orchards, where Jesus called Francis to his work –from the crucifix over the altar, he said, “Francis, restore my church!”
Last stop in Assisi -the Porziuncola, which holds Francis’ whole tiny stone church inside,
like the pit that holds life at the heart of a peach
Back at Spannochia, the last look
The vineyard and walnut tree next to Torre farmhouse
Farewell to Spannochia
Bologna, the view from MAMbo modern art museum
The contemplative work of Giorgio Morandi
Classics of Venice: San Marco and a gondolier on the Grand Canal
Piazza San Marco and a Venetian mask shop
Giadomenico Tiepolo’s Resurrection & the colors of Venice
Venetian rooflines
The Guggenheim Modern Art Collection on the Grand Canal
Odilon Redon’s apocalyptic angel & Camille Pisarro’s pointillist light
Our small canal off the Accademia
The view of Campo Santa Margherita from the roof of one of our apartments
Sketching the same view of Campo Santa Margherita
A final meeting of the workshop participants
Farewell to Venice
The Dolomites, from the plane home