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Figure with Fish 48 x 36 acrylic 2016 by Cathy Hegman
Farmers are planting the fields and summer is blazing a fiery hot trail across the sky. Warmer weather and growth mark the year with smells of earth and the bluest skies imaginable. The new growth gives me the thoughts of … Continue reading
It is beginning to heat up and summer is in the wind. I feel the oppressing dread of humidity and heat mixed together with torrid rain storms and tornadoes on the horizon. Spring is both glorious and petrifying in the … Continue reading
I thought I would start the year out with a reminder to myself to really study work before it leaves the studio. I painted several pieces that are centered on my thoughts about Ophelia from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. My … Continue reading
Constellating Cancer, is the latest in the constellations series that are filling my studio in this hope filled new year. This particular series at first began mainly as a way to use the figure with animal figures;but as with most … Continue reading
This piece is born of several months of thought, paint and gazing. Perhaps it is my age, but it seems that I am acutely aware of so much sadness and suffering in the world and locally now…my work reflects this … Continue reading
If you follow my blog you probably know I paint bits and pieces of memories or feelings that I have experienced in my life at some time or another. I have experienced an undue amount of insomnia lately. I … Continue reading
When I first began painting the urge to rush through and look for a finish in a piece was my nemesis. After so many years of living in the paints , I still often find myself wishing I would hurry … Continue reading
I have always had a sense of longing to know my past, to firmly place myself in another time and feel how that would be for me. I have a tapestry that I found 35 years ago in a dusty … Continue reading
I fell on my treadmill last year, and being invincible, I thought it was nothing to worry about. I just chalked up the pain with walking, to not getting enough exercise; so I walked less and less each day, … Continue reading