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Found Things
I’m calling this, “Thoughts on Fall Color”. And if you think these don’t look real, you should see the actual trees. We’ve been spending the
October 28, 2022
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TERRE LAMB SEELEY
Locus Amoenus- The Backyard As Paradise.
The First Cool Day
The day of the Autumn Equinox is here and it is the most pleasant we’ve had in a long while. What a hot summer this
September 26, 2022
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Equinox
From St. John’s Wort to Virgin’s Bower
I find St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) and Virgin’s Bower (Clematis Virginiana) to be quite fitting botanical bookends for the season of summer- Solstice to
September 22, 2022
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ABOUT ME
My Background
Terre Lamb Seeley has been drawing and painting since she was a very small child. Her family founded the oldest stained glass studio in the United States and she grew up in a home environment of art and art history. She became a painter after college where she had studied music and went on to create the calendar series “A Year in a Country House” which was first published in 1991.
My Inspiration
Are old houses really a part of nature? Well- they certainly can become so. The important houses in my life are all in the 150-year-plus range, with the exception of the house that used to belong to my brother, which doesn't save it from being in a constant state of resistance to natural entropy along with the older ones! I
Watercolor and Gouache
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My Medium
The materials I use for all my illustrative work are watercolour and gouache- an opaque form of watercolour- and watercolour pencils along with drawing and drafting pencils for sketching and layouts. While I love oil painting I need to be able to take whatever I’m working on with me anywhere, and to work outside it’s important to me to work from life and the immediate situation as much as possible. Watercolors and pencils also are great for journaling. I also like to play with collage for certain projects as I love different types of papers and fabrics, especially when bits of actual nature are in the mix- leaves, flowers, bark- whatever.
