Mending Fences

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I'd have preferred to get it looser, but maybe next time!

Posted by Karen Thomas on Wed 04 Oct 07:30:58

Very nice Karen , I know the song but I think I heard the Bing Crosby version

Posted by dennis roberts on Wed 04 Oct 08:00:28

Ella version for me Dennis!

Posted by Karen Thomas on Wed 04 Oct 08:07:07

I think the detail works well in this case Karen, tells a story.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Wed 04 Oct 08:54:49

Ah, Big Bill Campbell and his Smokey Mountain Jamboree....."throw another log cabin on the fire Mary" (-: Nice work Karen...I remember it all so well.

Posted by Jim Morris on Wed 04 Oct 09:24:18

I think this has captured a place and time wonderfully. Like the warm colours too.

Posted by Janet Humphrey on Wed 04 Oct 10:03:40

This is just beautiful, Karen. It tells a story.

Posted by Ellen Mooney on Wed 04 Oct 11:19:32

Very well controlled watercolour Karen.

Posted by John Graham Inkson on Wed 04 Oct 12:48:02

Beautiful watercolour Karen.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Wed 04 Oct 12:52:34

A lovely unusual painting Karen.

Posted by Linda Drury on Wed 04 Oct 14:38:11

This is charming Karen, skillfully painted.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Wed 04 Oct 16:01:11

I'm not familiar with the song Karen but I love your painted version of it.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Wed 04 Oct 16:05:55

Talking of songs Karen all I can say is " pardon me Roy is that the cat that chewed your new shoes ". Well painted with lovely marks.

Posted by Barry Hulme on Wed 04 Oct 17:40:41

This is beautiful and not overworked!!

Posted by Audrey Hynds on Thu 05 Oct 11:12:30

No senses lost here. Lovely painting,

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 05 Oct 17:03:43

Hang on Studio Wall

04/10/2017

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Sometimes a painting of mine is inspired by a persistent song in my head - an 'earworm' as I've heard it called. You know the sort ... it catches you in a store or on the radio then you're singing it for a week! In this case it was Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. So here it is ... "I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences, gaze st the moon till I lose my senses ..." ??

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Karen Thomas

After a promising early start I was told (as so many artists are) to get a ‘proper job’! Fast forward more years than I care to mention, and a move to Devon it all came flooding back out. After a period of experimentation and a stint of formal learning, I quickly became mesmerised by my own…

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