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A few of my late sweetie’s “Spirit Trees” series of paintings.  These were inspired by the full moonlight dancing with the bare winter limbs of the massive hackberry trees of the forest we lived in.  I am working on a book of her work:  https://goget.fund/2Zg7bqi

I also have a tumblr for her work and the project in general:  https://chartotheworld.tumblr.com/

Char and I lived in a forest of huge (60+ feet tall) hackberry trees, some with trunks you couldn’t reach around.  Interspersed among them, mostly down by the creek, were a family of ancient Pecan trees.  They all lost their leaves in winter, and under a full moon, our forest took on an other-worldly appearance.  Char was inspired by these trees and began to paint them as soon as she moved out there to be with me in ‘97.  There were several dozen canvases and sketches devoted to them.   She called them “Spirit Trees” with a number.  This is one of the first of the Spirit Trees paintings...and the first one we ever had made into prints and cards.  

Please visit the GoGetFunding Campaign page for my book project, Char To The World  <https://goget.fund/2Zg7bqi> It will be a “Coffee-Table” sized art book, with insight from the one who knew her best.  

One of the series of mixed media pieces she did around one of her favorite subjects, those wonderful metal lawn chairs from the '50s and '60s.  She did a series of large-scale paintings of them, based on photographs she'd taken back in the mid-late '70s and early '80s, and she revisited the theme every time she found a new inspiration.

For this particular piece, she actually cut up a Polaroid photo of a chair we had sitting on our deck.  She was chuckling as she made this, stitching the photo down to the background, and I asked her what was so funny, and she just looked at me and grinned and said "Lawn Chairs In Bondage!" 

This is the seventh in Char’s series she called “Goddess Boogie”.  She began to paint these trios of exuberant dancing goddesses soon after we got together ;-)