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Deidre Noreen Blair, an oil painter based in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, draws inspiration from her diverse upbringing in a military family. With a degree in Studio Arts from Portland State University, her bold and whimsical works reflect a deep connection to nature and admiration for artists across time and place.
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8M ago
Covid is getting to me. Admittedly, I haven’t been as effected by the pandemic as others.. I don’t have school aged kids, I was able to get unemployment when my work place closed, I’m a natural homebody and introvert, I had time to finish projects..it hasn’t been awful.
I am at work again and tourist season is in bloom and it’s harder now. More effort, more stress, more worry, more irritation. I am ready to not wear a mask 7-8 hours a day. I am ready to travel and see people and hug. But I can’t.
So this painting.. is hope. That this will end and there will be brighter days…
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8M ago
We’re in the midst of a global pandemic.
Did I fail to mention this? We, the United States are also facing increased civil unrest. That phrase, “civil unrest” is insufficient.. and awkward. So much is going on.. none of which I have said about in this blog which has lain fallow for a year. How does one catch up on all that happened..who am I to comment on any of it. I paint happy things, not always as a distraction, but as way seeing the light, the positive, the hope that there are better days to come.. sometimes I do paint to forget it all.
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8M ago
The 3 Sisters
You are the 3rd sister of this, my, gallery. I am one..the art is another, and you, my community, you are the third sister. We need each other, we nourish the other, we are nothing without the other.
Thank you for being a part of my dream and life work
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January 21, 2017
The Compost Pile is an Oral Tradition
I can tell you stories I’ve made up by reading pages from your compost pile
of the meals you have eaten
and not eaten
why the lemons have been squeezed but the cabbage and the cauliflower were untouched until your hands carried them here to decay
I wanted to catalog the vegetables and fruits just to impress you, to show you that I had indeed accounted for them all
but instead
I smelled the new earth and the old
then pricked my finger on a rose thorn.
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8M ago
I used to keep an end of the year list of things I had accomplished, experienced, made, done… you get the idea. I stopped doing this a few years ago.. but am returning to the practice.
So 2020 ..you brought a year of challenges. A pandemic, an election, a divided country.. a new way of living we are still coming to terms with and learning how to move through.
But here are the gifts and challenges and adventures you brought. In no particular order.
Finished a crocheted afghan
Completed every Sunday NYT crossword (and a few others) with David
Went to Damariscotta Maine
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8M ago
I wish I had started a journal when the covid 19 pandemic started. In March of this year we began a quarantine…the details of which I can scarcely remember. We wore masks and gloves.. we hoarded toilet paper, and food, and tried to stay home. Some said it was hoax..others said it was inevitable. We forgot that we are insignificant in the eyes of viruses.
Eight months later we are still wearing masks. The restaurant I work at closed, reinvented itself to outdoor dining, started providing take out, and closed again as cold weather set in. We have a newly elected president, waiting for January to ..read more
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8M ago
I watch the movie the other night on Netflix and fell in love with the beautiful octopus on screen. When we can travel again, I want to visit the kelp forest in South Africa and meet my own octopus teacher
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8M ago
The Land is burning is Oregon, Washington, and California. I am worried about my friends..several have evacuated. The skies are red and smoke filled; Portland has the worst air quality in the world right now.
And I am in Gorham… so far away, painting. Not oblivious to what is happening in the world. Just trying to find comfort in ways I can. The world is suffering this year. We must dig deep. I must dig deep and find the wellspring within myself.
There is so much to face and deal with right now. But there is also beauty and kindness and love to be found. I will focus on what can be ahead..wha ..read more
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8M ago
Every day is an exercise in building the new
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8M ago
It’s August of 2020
I haven’t updated in over a year. But I have been painting. Art, my own and others, has sustained me and continues to sustain me.
So much hard life has been happening.. personally, within my family, worldwide. Really hard stuff. Life can be brutal at times and while I tend to be an optimistic person I’ve come to learn and accept that good doesn’t beget good and bad doesn’t beget bad. Awful things happen to good people and awful people get rewarded all the time. Life isn’t fair.. if it were fair it would be called fair.. it’s not.. it’s called life.
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