Sun latitudes, sonorous gems
The light flickers, shadows dart
Leafy imps and pungent fruit
Dolorous blooms
The tinkling of jade
Teardrops rippling
Crashing waves
Still water
Birdsong
A child smiles
I was born in l949 in Honolulu, Hawaii, which accounts for the
curious reality
that when I might appear to be sitting on a settee or walking down a
supermarket
aisle in the Northwest I am really and truly backfloating in the ocean at
Waikiki
or climbing a banyon tree or hiking by a stream in Manoa Valley---all as a
child of
about ten or eleven years old. My childhood was indeed magical , and I
thought and
still think that all children had similar charmed lives; all children had
wonderful
intelligent and creative parents and siblings and were treated with dignity
and respect
and a whole lot of love.
At the age of seventeen I left home for college at Stanford University
in Palo Alto,
California, where I proceeded to study all the academic subjects that the
daughter of
the chairman of the mathematics department at the University of Hawaii might
be
expected to study. My sister convinced me to take some art history courses
and a
figurative drawing class with her, and together with study abroad and
exposure to the
great art in museums and churches in Europe I was swept away.
After graduation I headed north to the San Francisco Art Institute,
where I mostly
drew from the figure and painted on my own. I lived there for thirty
years, walking
the hills, enjoying the incredible views and utterly fascinated by the
everchanging
panoply of faces and cultures.
So you must excuse me if I seem distant---I may be off in Hawaii or
San Francisco,
or I might be painting a watercolor, in a sunlit place, with the pure
heart and
spirit of a child.
Deeling Gregory, Fall l999
To see more of Deeling's outstanding art go to deeling.com, her new website which will be showcasing her amazing range and output now and in the future.
Greetings, the following links will take you to original artwork
created by Ms. Deeling Catherine-Rose Gregory. These pen and ink drawings
appeared as the lead art located on the masthead of playlists of the Midnight
Dread radio show for a period in the 1980's. Art has been her driving force
for over twenty years. Free lance work in animation, printmaking and quiltmaking
has augmented her creative growth, while painting has remained her primary
focus. The human figure has remained the principal subject of her work.
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