by Thordis Simonsen | Jul 5, 2011
For years I had envisioned my oil pastel painting #114 on the front cover of my anticipated 3rd book, Dances in Two Worlds—the realm on one side of a window expansive and bright, that on the other side implied but not defined. I understood that the image draws one...
by Thordis Simonsen | Jun 17, 2011
W.W. Norton published my first book, You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks. The Fundamental Note published my second book, Dancing Girl: Themes and Improvisations in a Greek Village Setting. I first came across the term “fundamental note” in the late 80s. A...
by Thordis Simonsen | May 23, 2011
This is the painting I mentioned in my previous post. Why make them wait to see it, I asked myself. So here it is. To me the piece looks like a finger-painting a kindergartener might have made, but I was 44, and I applied tempera paint with a brush. Naive though it...
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by Thordis Simonsen | May 18, 2011
You might wonder what this 2-sided found-object wooden totem has to do with the story I have to tell. I met the artist, Michael Mrowka, in a Jungian painting group where I first began to paint in 1988. I purchased the sculpture to celebrate the publication of my...
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by Thordis Simonsen | May 17, 2011
I first came across the term “genuine encounter” in Ramona Gault’s review of my second book, Dancing Girl: Themes and Improvisations in a Greek Village Setting (1991). The book contains warm, spirited accounts by and about the people of Elika, gossip...
