~Ethel-Larcombe~

Ethel Larcombe in 1912
Tennis - Wimbledon ladies' singles Champion
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Ethel Larcombe born Ethel Warneford Thomson
on 8 June 1879 in Islington, Middlesex, England 
Died 11 August 1965 in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England
She was a former British female tennis player.
She is best remembered for winning the
ladies' singles title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships.
She also was an artist for many years.

 

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Ethel Larcombe is geboren als Ethel Warneford Thomson
op 8 Juni 1879 in Islington, Middlesex, England 
Ze is overleden op 11 August 1965 in Budleigh
Salterton, Devon, England.
Ze heeft in 1912 Wimbeldon Championships gewonnen.
Ze heeft ook vele jaren geschilderd.
Zie hier haar werk!
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~Doris Joa~

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Intervieuw with Doris Joa, who is
an artist from Germany.
She has a great passion for nature and its beauty.
She started with painting in 2002 and is mostly
self-taught and has learned through books
and some DVDs.
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“My mediums are watercolor and oil. One of my
special favorite subjects are Roses and figurative work.
I paint roses and also other flowers in oil and
watercolor,  like Pansies, Rhododendron,
Peonies, Daisies and Tulips”
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“My goal is to paint in romantic realism.
I am also doing figurative work, portraits, still lifes and
in 2005 I have started a new series of colourful
Horse paintings in oil. I also have started with doing
postcard paintings in 4″x6″ and other small studies”
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“I am using only highquality watercolor and oil paints.
My watercolors are painted on 140 Lb hotpressed or
coldpressed watercolor paper (mostly Arches or Lanaquarelle)
and I am using colours mostly from Schmincke, although
there are tubes from Winsor & Newton and
Daniel Smith in my box”
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  “Recently I have started with also using Aquabord
(Textured Claybord) from Ampersand.
I like the textures and the possibilities on the bord.
And no glass is needed to protect the painting
when it will be framed”
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“Oil paintings are done on stretched canvas or
hardboard panels. I am using colours from Rembrandt,
M. Gamblin, Old Holland and/or Winsor & Newton.
For medium I do not use any turpentine,
I use only walnut oil or walnut alkyd medium
both are from M. Graham”
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“I have a great passion for nature and her beauty and
try to capture this in my paintings.
The sunshine, the shadows, the light and the glittering
of a raindrop I find most captivating”
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“I love it when people tell me that when they view my
paintings they can smell the flowers, feel the velvet
of the rose-petals and have the feeling
of standing in a garden”
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http://www.dorisjoa.com/
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~Mermaids~

"If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one,
you may see at times a shapeless
pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness;
then if you squeeze your eyes tighter,
the pool begins to take shape, and the colours
become so vivid that with another squeeze
they must go on fire.
But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon.
This is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland,
just one heavenly moment;
if there could be two moments
you might see the surf and
hear the mermaids singing."
-J.M Barrie, 'Peter and Wendy'

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~Florence Griswold ~

    
Florence Griswold opened her timeworn family home
to artists searching for a quiet country retreat where
they could rejuvenate their spirits and find sources
of inspiration. The group was known as the Lyme Art Colony
and Miss Florence's boardinghouse became the center
of Impressionism in America. To honor Miss Florence
and the Colony, the Florence Griswold Museum was
established and has flourished in exciting ways. 
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Who was this remarkable woman?
One of four children of a ship captain, Miss Florence
was born on Christmas Day, 1850 and raised in the finest
house on the main street of a thriving Connecticut town.
Old Lyme, a center of shipbuilding and commerce,
was established in the early 1600s and counted the
Griswolds among the town's oldest families.
Their Late Georgian-style mansion, built in 1817 on
a twelve-acre estate, was purchased by Captain Robert Griswold
for his bride Helen Powers in 1841.
The family's and the town's fortunes reversed, however,
as a result of the Civil War and the invention of
steam-powered vessels. To survive financially
the Griswolds turned their home into a school and
eventually a boarding house.
By the late 1890s only Miss Florence was left to
maintain the family homestead. Soon she,and the town,
would transform and survive in unexpected ways.
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The Florence Griswold House, Originally built
in 1817 for William Noyes, Jr.,
a son of Judge William Noyes,
the house was designed by Hartford builder
Samuel Belcher, who was already at work on
Old Lyme’s Congregational Church.
In 1839, the house was sold to Richard Ely
and in 1841 to the sea captain Robert Griswold.
By the 1930s, Florence Griswold was in debt and
her property was sold, although the land’s new owner,
Judge Robert McCurdy Marsh, who built a new house,
allowed her to live in the old house until
her death on December 6 1937.
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The artist William Chadwick often used Miss Florence
as a model and once featured her at the piano
and reading a book on the sofa!
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In 1941, the house was purchased by the Florence
Griswold Association and opened as a museum in 1947.
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Florence Griswold Museum, exhibiting both art
and historical material. The house was declared
a National Historic Landmark in 1993. In July 2007
the building reopened after a 14-month restoration project.
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The museum features a collection of American art
and history, including fine art, sculpture, works on paper,
artist's studio material, toys and dolls, ceramics,
furniture, textiles, decorative arts and historic artifacts,
and the Lyme Historical Society archives.
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The side porch of the Griswold House became an
extension of the interior space, and served as an open-air
dining room. Meals were taken here in warm weather,
with views of the gardens and barns beyond.
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~Visit to the museum~

http://flogris.blogspot.com/
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~Kay Nielsen~

 

  
Kay Nielsen was born in 1886 and died in 1957
He was a Danish illustrator who was popular in the
early 20th century, the "golden age of illustration"
which lasted from when Daniel Vierge and other pioneers
developed printing technology to the point that drawings
and paintings could be reproduced with reasonable facility,
He joined the ranks of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac
in enjoying the success of the gift books of the early
20th century. This fad lasted until roughly the end
of World War II when economic changes made it more
difficult to make a profit from elaborately illustrated books.

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Born in Copenhagen into an artistic family, his father was
director of the Royal Danish Theatre. He studied art in
Paris from 1904 to 1911, and then lived in England from
about 1911 to 1916. He received his first English
commission from Hodder and Stoughton to illustrate a
collection of fairytales, providing 24 colour plates and more
than 15 monotone illustrations - In Powder and Crinoline,
Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, 1913.

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In the same year, Nielsen was also commissioned by
The Illustrated London News to produce a set of four
illustrations to accompany the tales of Charles Perrault -
with the images for 'Le Belle au Bois Dormant'
('Sleeping Beauty'), 'Le Chat Botté' ('Puss in Boots'),
'Cendrillon' ('Cinderella') and 'La Barbe Bleue' ('Bluebeard')
being published in the 1913 Christmas Edition.

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In 1939 he left for California and worked for
Hollywood companies, including The Walt Disney Company,
where his work was used in the "Ave Maria" and
"Night on Bald Mountain" sequences of Fantasia.
In 1940 he was laid off. He did some work on
"The Little Mermaid" story, but it was almost 50 years
before this reached the cinema. His final years were spent
in poverty. His last works were for local schools
including 'The First Spring' mural installed at
Central Junior High School, Los Angeles  and
churches including his painting to the Wong Chapel
at the First Congregational Church, Los Angeles -
illustrating the 23rd Psalm.

 One day the queen dreamed that an eagle
snatched a bouquet of roses from her,
and when she woke, the princess had vanished.
(from Rosanella, or The Inconstant Prince, by Comte de Caylus)

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