Upcoming Show!

© Robin Edmundson, 'Goose Pond - 535', watercolor, 9 x 12 inches.  $375 [matted and framed to 16 x 20 inches]

Here is another of my recent pieces of Goose Pond.  They will be on view from June 15 - July 12 at the Gaslight Art Colony in Marshall, Illinois.

Opening reception is Saturday, June 15 from 5-8pm

If you'd like a postcard of the event, email me with your street address and I'll make sure you get one.

Spirit of Place, Again

© Robin Edmundson, 'Goose Pond - 530', watercolor, 10 x 14 inches.  $375
[Matted and framed to 16 x 20 inches]

Another view of the marshes from the photos I took on our anniversary.  I'm kind of loving the movement of the grasses here.

Spirit of Place

© Robin Edmundson, 'Goose Pond - 529', watercolor, 9 x 12 inches.  $375
[Matted and framed to 16 x 20 inches]

On our anniversary in March, I took a bunch of photos of that blustery day at Goose Pond and Beehunter Marsh to use as reference photos for future paintings.

One in particular keep calling me.  It was nothing special - dark rainy clouds, rain obscuring part of the distant trees, a sweep of wet golden grassland.

It took a few weeks to start painting it, but now I can't stop.

I realized that I wasn't responding to the rain or the grass, but rather the spirit of the place.  The wild and windy spirit of that day.  The crazy weather, the birds, frogs, wind, water, snakes, bugs, clouds, sudden blue skies, then more lashing rain.   All of it.   I love all of it.  I can't stop painting it.