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What is Art? Everything.

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Day 12. Winter Solstice 2020, a painting

7″x 5″ oil on gessoboard, $125. free shipping, no tax. What a joy it has been to bring light and color into your lives for these last 12 days. Wishing you light and love on this last dark day of

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Day 10. Tidal Song, a painting

7″ x 5″ oil on Masonite panel, $125, free shipping, no tax. Here’s to the light!

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Day Five. Island, a painting.

7″x 5″ oil on masnite panel. $125. free shipping, no tax. Here’s to the light!

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Day Two. Blue House, a painting.

7″x5″ oil on masonite panel. $125. free shipping no tax! Here’s to the light!

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I Stopped for Beauty

-Amy Gesell, copyright, all rights reserved….. Rare snow today in South Carolina. This is in Erhardt.

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Ladies of the Night, a painting

Day 3. 7″x 5″ oil on panel. For sale. $99. no shipping no tax.  (just sold:)

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Happy Birthday to Mary Oliver. Sleeping in the Forest.

Sleeping in the Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between

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Brick House Ruins, Edisto Island, South Carolina

This grand estate on Russell Creek has been the private land of the Jenkins family since 1798. The house, built around 1725, burned in 1929. Here she is in all her beauty.

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Edisto Island. One Dirt Road.

I am on the island this week. I am breathless with beauty. This is all I can say.

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Welcome to my blog about the Lowcountry of South Carolina, a place proud with beauty, history and art. Sometimes we feel a call, to be, to go, to do. I was called to be an artist, and as an old midwife from Alabama said, “If the good Lord wants you to do something, you won’t have no good luck until you do it.”

So here I am writing about what I know, about the 'under glimmer' as the poet Basho, says, the way I have learned to see, to notice. I am inspired by, and talking about the history and art and culture of this place that has called me to herself. By the ancestors.

My background includes a degree in fine arts from a small private college in Florida, and before that, four years of all girls' boarding school in Asheville. I worked as a professional photographer, helped my children grow up, and now and I love seasoned things, good food, better conversation, beauty, my beloved and beautiful Italian Greyhound, Beau. Moved by the sacred places and stories of this beautiful historic land called the Lowcountry, I am here in spirit and I hope to infect you with my love of this place.

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