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Monday, August 28, 2006

Hello to art lovers,
It has been a few months. I am back in my studio painting the series which I call "Car Culture". These are scenes of driving about my city, Edmonton. It is fine for many artists to take easel and paint and go sit in nature and paint. Those who see my paintings know this is not my way. Instead I see images everywhere and have a desire to emphasize my love of an ordinary life. The second series is the continuing children images. My mothering days are long past but that experience is in my nature so I will continue to express it in my art. I intend to use images and "abstract" the details. Finally our home of 30 years in strathcona is up for sale and this subject in coming to close, not the idea of home and family but rather that specific house. How does one portray "home" in a loft? This computor is at work so I hope to communicate more frequently.

Christl Bergstrom

posted by Christl at 9:48 AM