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<\/p>\n“The artist, being a dreamer basically, is one of the few people in this world who has the unique ability to create for himself his very own world, to make things just as he would like them.” So said artist William F. Reese in a book I came across in the studio we used for a week outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Actually, I believe the same could be said for many besides artists. It was exemplified in the lives of our hosts for the week, Charlie and Marty Peet.<\/p>\n
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Besides the gracious accommodations of private guest quarters (not shown) we had the use of this\u00a0large studio, the full second floor of Charlie’s workshop (above). Also not shown is the array of various classic cars, a classic wood boat, and a home-made airplane, stored and worked on in the shop. It was apparent that there were artful expressions of life going on on both floors.<\/p>\n
Of the Wyoming landscape one could not take enough pictures. This is the view out the back of the studio. Out the front was just as grand, and all\u00a0sides.<\/p>\n For two days I led a workshop for eight friends who paint together in yet another shared studio. Anne only joined us during the final critique and took these pictures.<\/p>\n We’d done four paintings in the two days, a floral, a landscape, a face and a figure. For some it was pushing them into the pool at the deep end. But they were all good sports, had a good time, and learned from each other.<\/p>\n In the meantime, Anne stayed at the Peet studio and kept making art. For her, getting away and working like this, with no interruptions or the ever-present “should-do” list, is a gift. And it’s obvious that she is gifted at it.<\/p>\n The studio was plenty expansive. Anne worked at one end and I at the other. We used the place for eight days running, but for occasional excursions into town (half hour away) and, of course, my two days off-site giving the workshop.<\/p>\n Here’s a sample of some of Anne’s \u00a0productivity. Her press is barely visible on the far end of the table (in blue). That’s her smaller, “portable” version (though still very heavy) that we take on such trips.<\/p>\n Down at my end, I too was busy, making a couple of large acrylics . . . western themed for the occasion . . .\u00a0and a number of small oils. Some, like the floral and the dancer, were done as demos in the workshop, the others, just because.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here’s another view, and another time of day, looking around the Peets’ 70-acre spread. Completely peaceful, but with sometimes hourly changes in weather and light. In winter it’s covered with snow, and maybe a herd of elk.<\/p>\n Our hostess, Marty Peet, enjoying the end-of-day air with Anne, down by their stretch of the river. Note, “Maggie” lounging just behind, their 3\/4 wolf, very docile with humans, but a threat to any dogs venturing her claimed property.<\/p>\n The same evening, with camera in other hands. I’m relaxed, not knowing I was at that moment being bitten by some invisible insect in the grass and ended up on antibiotics for a week. Who said this country was altogether tamed?<\/p>\n Too dark for a good photo, but too special not to show. It was Wyoming, for me a return to ancestral home. For more on that, and how we happened to be invited here, see the two recent Blank Slate<\/a>\u00a0blogs I posted while there. It’s all part of the “invented world” these artists are able to create. We’re grateful.<\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n![\"Grass-Mountains\"](\"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Grass-Mountains.jpg\")
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