Oil Paintings
Mountains
Nelson Crag - Mt Washington
Presidential Range - from Sugar Hill
Mount Adams
Carter Moriah Range
Mount Madison
View from Pine Mountain
Mount Adams
Franconia Notch 1
Dinner Time
Moriah Carter Range - Evening
Mount Jefferson
Franconia Notch 2
Mount Jefferson
Mount Monadnock
Mount Adams
Moriah Carter Range - Morning
Lakes
Reminiscence
New Horizons
Kelly Farm
Water- Lakes, Rivers, and Oceans
Ellacoya 1
Ellacoya 2
Let There Be Light
Ellacoya 3
The Tempest
This series acknowledges the difficult truth that life is often tempestuous and difficult to understand. But even the most difficult moments in life reveal the power of creation.
We live in an unfolding reality. The story is yet unfinished. Uncertainty in life can be discomforting. We struggle to find meaning in the midst of the chaos of life. In a world where oppressive systems remain, where the truth is suspect, where natural disasters turn lives upside-down, where tragedies happen, what are we to do?
Chaos is often seen as negative, modern science has found in chaos mathematical ways to describe the world around us. Fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, weather patterns and other natural phenomena show a kind of organic organization that defies explanation. Clouds, water, rocks, and growing things display a kind of order that is on the surface disordered.
Rather than tame nature into a more manageable form, I allow the chaos of nature to dictate the details of nature in my painting. Embracing chaos is not just a way to paint, it can also be a way of life. Allowing the divine order of the universe to guide us through life, we may find a hidden richness in the midst of chaos.
Seven pieces 30”X40” each
Oil on canvas
When You're Gone
When You’re Gone
This series is dedicated to Matthew Calder, my son-in-law who died at the age of thirty-one. I had already been working on the idea of this series based on the four elements. As I sat at his funeral, the words of a song struck me. It was the four elements. I found comfort remembering that there are things that do remain when our lives crash upon us.
The song is When We Are Gone:
When we are gone they will remain,
Wind and rock,
Fire and rain.
They will remain, when we return,
The wind will blow,
And the fire will burn.
Copyright 1993 by Starhawk and Anne Hill
