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The Artist’s
Almanac
January 2007
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Winter is the time for comfort
– it is the time for home.
-Edith Sitwell
The weather, a
mundane topic to fill embarrassing silences in elevators with
strangers, really is news this year. December’s unprecedented thaw
has continued into January, and we have used the air conditioner
more than once. Flowers are blooming and all wonder if winter will
ever appear. The calendar alone tells us it is January.
No one ever
regarded the First of January with indifference, wrote Charles
Lamb, for it is that from which all date their time, and count
upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
If we are to reform
ourselves, now is the time. My reformation begins with a
reorganized website, which I invite each of you to visit today at
www.billpuryear.com.
There you will find paintings reclassified, not as to tools and
technique, but as to their purpose. Scroll down to each new
category – Spirit, Place, People, Time, and Beauty and tell me,
please, what you think.
The History Section
is there, in Archive, and will be updated monthly going forward
with mini-biographies of those giants who made Sumner, Middle
Tennessee and America what they are today. Finally, there is the
Almanac itself, with three years archived for those who may care
to see. Going forward I plan to give more attention to art,
including the works of other artists, both local and museum, to
add variety for you the readers.
My own resolutions
include one to concentrate this year on larger fewer works, except
for those executed in watercolor, that fair daughter of
inspiration, where ideas flow as freely as the medium. All my
fresh springs are in you.
Finally, for those
who miss the snow this year, here is some, in the Neversummer
Mountains of Colorado (no, actually in Aransas Pass, above
Breckenridge). Perhaps you are headed there to ski this winter. I
don’t ski, and plan to recollect myself in the desert of Arizona,
if we ever get enough winter to make it worth going.
There are still a
few copies of this beautiful coffee table book left. They will be
heirlooms for your descendants. This was printed in a very limited
edition by Donnelly in China, so when they are gone they are gone.
Vicki at Books on the Square in Gallatin, may have a very few
left.
Sumner County: Living Working
Playing
Order Now
Art directed by
legendary creative force Chuck Creasy, and photographed by
award-winning cinematographer Jim Spitler, Sumner County:
Living Working Playing documents in words and images the rich
and dynamic beauty of life in Sumner County, Tennessee. Essayist
Bill Puryear introduces the volume in the evocative voice that
fans of his weblog
www.billpuryear.com have come to know and love, while prolific
news columnist Tena Jamison Lee brings her comprehensive knowledge
of Sumner County and its residents into exquisite focus.
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