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Spoleto Spree Package at the Francis Marion Hotel

Enliven your spirit and immerse yourself in the arts! Spoleto Festival USA exhilarates  all who enjoy this premier cultural event ranked as one of the nation’s major arts festival. 

The Francis Marion Hotel Spoleto Festival Package includes luxurious overnight accommodations with breakfast for two in our own Swamp Fox Restaurant and reduced ticket prices for select performances booked online at spoletofestivalusa.com. Hotel reservation must be confirmed prior to receiving the special promotion code for ordering reduced Spoleto tickets. 

Package pricing starts at $169.00 

Gratuity, taxes and parking are not included.  Event tickets are purchased directly through Spoleto Festival USA.  Please see their website for terms and conditions.  Once reservation has been confirmed the hotel will send you a promotion code to be used on the festival’s website.    

Just call me Angel

For every soul, there is a guardian watching it. –The Koran

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock. –St. Ignatius of Loyola

In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, If we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand. – Brian Andreas

How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? –Tom Waits

Sometimes you have to be the angel. It's all give and take.

 

 

 

At 418 King Street in Downtown Charleston there used to be a wonderful shop called Cameron's Antiques, owned by Patricia Ahern. (Now it's The French Hare, equally as wonderful for different reasons). Antique stores suck me right in and the old building's light was as beautiful as the goodies inside. Patricia graciously humored my request to come back with my camera. The results were beautiful.

The print is 8x10 and I'm selecting a metallic paper and an oversized (16x20 mat) to make it more dramatic. Price includes shipping to Continental U.S.

Harbinger of Spring

Spring is here 'Down South' and the hydrangeas are unbelievable. "What is this fountain that throws out these flowers in such a ceaseless outbreak of ecstacy? –Tagore, Gitanjali

Happy Spring!

The print is 13x19 inches. It is a Trompe L'oeil Look it Up! Giclee. A mat effect is applied and the resulting piece is printed on fine art paper. Price includes shipping to continental U.S. Email for worldwide shipping info. 

Reflection

“When you develop a creative expression and share it, you are speaking from The Heart. You are one with your Self and with others. You are giving a gift that you can carry with you on your journey. You are creating an experience of communion, with your Self, with God or whatever you call the grace that exists in the world.” – Michael Ray, The Highest Goal .

About the image: This old house  sits on its own rocky island in Penneseewassee Lake, Norway, Maine. The island is accessible by boat during summer months, and by car in the winter when the lake freezes over. The house has been the family for generations, largely unchanged, telling each inhabitant and guest its stories of the past.

The print is 11x14 inches. It is a giclee, printed on fine art paper . Most prints are $100; click Buy Now button for pricing which includes shipping to continental U.S. Email for worldwide shipping info.

Kitchen Art

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There’s nothing
To it... Willy Wonka

Imagine that!

The print is 11x14 inches. It is a Trompe L'oeil Giclee. The artwork is prepared from a photograph, then the decorative mat effect is applied and the resulting piece is printed on fine art paper.  Most prints are $100. Price includes shipping to continental U.S. Email for worldwide shipping info.

Trompe L'oeil Lily

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the cat. "I don't much care where," said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the cat. – Lewis Carroll

The print is 11x14 inches. It is a Trompe L'oeil Giclee. The lilies are painted from a photograph, then the French mat effect is applied and the resulting piece is printed on fine art paper. Price includes shipping to continental U.S. Email for worldwide shipping info.

Pansy

Lunch with good friend and fellow photographer Ron Rocz on the tiny patio at Mimi’s Cafe on James Island, SC. Cool winds drove the fair weather diners inside, leaving us to enjoy the lowcountry marsh in quiet conversation.

Mimi’s shares a makeshift dirt parking area with the Harbor View Beauty Salon, a small establishment whose pansy flowerboxes defy road dust and exhaust fumes to speak eloquently of January in the South.

The print is eight inches by ten inches on cotton rag art paper, matted in a  gallery-white eleven by fourteen artcare mat. Email me to inquire about different sizes or presentations. Price includes shipping to continental U.S.

In a Doll's House

I hope you enjoy these images as much as I enjoy making them. This one is a holiday table in one of many miniature settings created by my mother. Without exception these little rooms invite the viewer to experience their comfort, hospitality and peace.

The print is four inchest by five inches on cotton rag art paper, matted in a gallery white eight by ten inch artcare mat. Price includes shipping to continental U.S.