Waiting – Red Chair, 16×20, acrylic © 2010 Michelle Basic Hendry This is the bay window at the abandoned Livingstone Stephens house near Bracebridge. This one was a tough one, technically – for its complicated interior architecture; emotionally because these old places I have come to know have touched me; and due to ‘life’ around […]
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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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Everything but the Bathroom Sink, acrylic, 16×24 © 2009 Michelle Basic Hendry This is the third in a short series of interiors from some of the buildings I have discovered in the last year and a half. Going inside an abandoned or empty building is a whole other emotional experience to wandering the outside. It […]
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