It’s been a summer for visiting eclectic homes.
Beauport aka The Sleeper-McCann House and Henry Davis Sleeper’s summer-retreat-cum-bachelor-pad is a ‘trip’ to visit with its kooky space planning and decorative motifs.
His creative ways of finding light within the house remind me of Gaudi’s Casa Batllo and Casa Mila not to mention his chimneys, albeit on a much smaller scale and in a different cultural venacular. Wondering if Sleeper ever visited Spain or read/heard about Gaudi’s work. The Casa Batllo was finished in 1906 just as Sleeper was getting started.
Some interior images to come in my next post…
July 18th, 2016
It came through, the consequences of looking carefully. The flower photograph is one I took around the same time that I was painting some abstractions. Going through my photographs I realized my photography was bleeding into my painting, how wonderful is that?
June 14th, 2016
There are shapes that just reach out to you, no explanation needed. There is such beauty in simplicity.
Frederic Church’s eclectic home Olana overlooking the Hudson River Valley is a font of color and texture inspiration. Despite the raining day it was a trip to photograph the melee of materials and decorative motifs. Must return and enjoy the beautiful landscape on a sunny day.
May 27th, 2016
Blues every which way…accented with pinks and steeped in the lush, hush of tall douglas fir… that ocean on the wrong side, sweet oysters and the fertile skagit valley decorated by ice-capped mountains in the near distance and there was time for reflection, family and walks.
