About
My descendant, Martin Johnson Heade, (1819-1904) painted a stilled and fleeting memoir of the natural world. His vision gives us the moment of sunrise, a hummingbird hovering over an orchid or the open petals of a magnolia cutting laid so carefully on a table –an image so acutely entrancing that the US Postal Service created a postage stamp from it . Very recently I have turned to painting myself, after years of jewelry making, and I believe the work I did with the beauty of glass beads, gemstones and crystals, very much has followed me into painting—where I have found watercolor too, to be a coloristic medium.
As I contemplate the beauty of flowers and paint the fleeting fragility of them, I feel a family connection, a thread of common thought...
