Cooper House Bathroom Sink, 10×8, acrylic © 2010 Michelle Basic Hendry Saturday, October 9th 2010 marks the opening of “Legacy” at the Auburn Gallery of Fine Art in Gravenhurst. It is an exhibition of portraits, paintings and photographs depicting the people and places of 19th and 20th century south Muskoka and some of their stories. […]
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Old Truck, Germania © 2008 Michelle Basic Hendry Other than the fact that my head is so stuffed that my keyboard peckings reverberate in my skull, all is moving towards recovery from a terrible late summer cold. After losing a week to it, I can finally sit up long enough to start thinking about the […]
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Crystal’s Room, acrylic, 16×24 © 2010 Michelle Basic Hendry The front room from the interior of the house in Uffington featured in June’s “On the Move” post is finally complete. This room was the favourite of Mrs. Fleger’s granddaughter, Crystal. Apparently she took the bed from this room to college. I named the painting in […]
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Photograph of Bay Window at Livingstone/Stephens House © 2010 Michelle Basic Hendry The insistent River of Time flows downstream and eventually its contents disperse in the Sea of the Universe. My husband lost his beloved Grandmother yesterday. The world, for him, is somehow diminished without her presence. His focus is now on the gathering of […]
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Yellow Door © 2009 Michelle Basic Hendry I think it is finished. I toyed with adding more peeling painting to the yellow door itself, but, I was afraid it would make it too busy and break up the door as the focus of the painting. This is my second interior painting. I have another that […]
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Long Abandoned © 2009 Michelle Basic Hendry My passion for old and derelict buildings is, by now, no secret! For those of you following on Twitter or Facebook, you will be aware of the fact that I saw a place on one of my drives that really caught my imagination. The kicker was, I had […]
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