by Dawn Chandler | Dec 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
This is a painting about joy. About uplift. About climbing out of a chaos, and finding clarity, finding your way. And then — and THEN! listening for your better angels, and spreading your wings. Remember Walking Into the Storm with Arms Open Wide? This is climbing out...
by Dawn Chandler | Nov 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are several quiet conversations going on in this painting. Between the coral figure and the blue figure; Between the large cranes and the small cranes; Between the people and the cranes; I think they’re all taking about flying. Don’t those wings just...
by Dawn Chandler | Nov 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Perhaps it’s time now to reveal this mysterious figure who keeps appearing in these, my crane paintings. That figure is my mother. My mother, who grew up in New England, married my father, who grew up in New Jersey. They met in college and were...
by Dawn Chandler | Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Their return brings song to my heart. Indeed. As you read this I’ll be packing up to return to the Bosque del Apache, to witness sunset tonight with the cranes and geese. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll return there a few hours later for...
by Dawn Chandler | Nov 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
That thing you’ve been avoiding? That thing you’ve been putting off, ‘been skirting around? That thing you don’t want to do is the thing you have to do. That thing you fear? Time to face it. Do it. Do it now. Go walk into that storm with your...
