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FOXGLOVES REACHING FOR THE SKY Acrylics on Cedar with Red Oak Frame DIMENSIONS: HEIGHT: 23 7/8 inches WIDTH: 15 inches SUMMER 2021 To us, blooming foxgloves have been a sure sign of summer for many years. While living on the Olympic Peninsula, we would see “fields” of foxgloves forming beautiful gardens and disguising the less-than-beautiful clear cuts in which they were growing. Lately many foxgloves have seeded themselves in our garden, and they are a welcome sight. It’s amazing how tall some of them can get, and several this year have inspired both this painting and its title. I added a tiger swallowtail and a background of miscanthus grass to complete the design. The artistic inspiration for this work owes much to the Japanese Rinpa School and Ogata Kenzan’s Hollyhocks was very influential in...

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laconnerartsfoundation.org ART'S ALIVE MISSION STATEMENT The La Conner Arts Foundation is dedicated to encouraging artistic expression and providing diverse, high quality art for the enjoyment of residents and visitors. History In the early 1980's La Conner Resident Martin Hahn, owner of the Black Swan Cafe came up with an idea for an annual arts festival. One evening in 1984 Hahn, together with his staff Ed Kamuda, Michael Klough and Paul Hanson, began discussing the concept of a festival that would highlight the local art as well as business community. What Hahn envisioned was an event that would extend La Conner's commercial season during the stark times, the month of November. They would call it "ART'S ALIVE " Martin Hahn, Rich...

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