Such A Lovely Place

"Such A Lovely Place", 8x10" oil on gessobord

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"I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there." —Jerry Seinfeld

No, this is not the Eagle's hotel somewhere in California. It's "Welcome to the Hotel" Worthington Renaissance, Fort Worth. The lobby, with it's warm and inviting sitting area, was a great place to people watch and snap photos—like a fly on the wall—without being noticed by those two guys heading out the door in the background. 

This painting was more complex than most of my paintings and took 15 hours to complete. I sure had fun playing with all the details. I love the cool light streaming in through in the huge windows contrasted by the warm glow of the sitting area. 

I have had such a strong attraction to lamp light lately? I'm not sure why I keep wanting to paint this subject matter, perhaps it has something to do with the need for a path of light to shine into the darkness of the world? 

Thanks for  checking in today. I hope you enjoyed your stay.

nancy
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SOLD - Room Service

"Room Service" 8x8" oil on gessobord

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"All of life is an empty room. It is our task to fill it with something worth listening to." 

— Joan Chittister

As Shakesphere said, "All the world is a stage"... and this empty chair is merely a player. A stoic prop, positioned slightly off-center stage, sits transfixed in the warm flood of first light pouring in through glass and splashing across the floor. 

This painting is of another corner of the hotel room where I recently stayed in Fort Worth. This delightful room serviced me well, an unspoken invitation to pause in the solitude of the great abyss. Or at least, that's how I perceived it. 

I've mentioned in previous blogs about my need for silence, and how important it is to my soul. I suspect this might have something to do with the fact that the TV broadcasts day and night at my house, especially during football season. I rarely ever sit down to watch it myself cause nine times out of ten, I'll be asleep within a matter of minutes. My need for quietude really is very productive because it spurns me to retreat to another room of service—my studio—where I can listen and paint to my hearts content in the utter soundlessness of "Do Not Disturb."

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SOLD - Kick Off Your Shoes...

"...And Sit Right Down" 10x8" oil on gessobord

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"We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much and don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal."

— Thich Nhat Hanh

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain

Sleeping, Exercise, Taken

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. Charles Spurgeon

Life, Faith, Alone

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

Tired, Laziness, Habit

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. Adlai E. Stevenson

Lie, Victory, Rest

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. Hillary Clinton

Bad, Enough, Living

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. Kenneth Grahame

Best, Yourself, Busy

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sleep, Snow, Die

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. Martin Farquhar Tupper

Love, Peace, Men

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body. Katy Perry

Work, Best, Done

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else. Martha Beck

Else, Until, Playing

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think. Zooey Deschanel

Time, Boring, Done

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew Arnold

Character, Culture, Growing

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie. Cynthia Nixon

Time, Hard, Working

I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up. Jeremy Renner

Makes, Guess, Beat

As I hope it doesn't come to the point where I need to take a day off. I feel pretty good right now and I'm not resting or saving for any other game. Tim Duncan

Good, Hope, Game

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man. Haniel Long

Life, Daily, May

Resting for me is fitness training. Jenson Button

Fitness, Training

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/resting.html#DADE37VR9mFH35f6.99

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain

Sleeping, Exercise, Taken

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. Charles Spurgeon

Life, Faith, Alone

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

Tired, Laziness, Habit

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. Adlai E. Stevenson

Lie, Victory, Rest

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. Hillary Clinton

Bad, Enough, Living

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. Kenneth Grahame

Best, Yourself, Busy

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sleep, Snow, Die

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. Martin Farquhar Tupper

Love, Peace, Men

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body. Katy Perry

Work, Best, Done

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else. Martha Beck

Else, Until, Playing

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think. Zooey Deschanel

Time, Boring, Done

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew Arnold

Character, Culture, Growing

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie. Cynthia Nixon

Time, Hard, Working

I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up. Jeremy Renner

Makes, Guess, Beat

As I hope it doesn't come to the point where I need to take a day off. I feel pretty good right now and I'm not resting or saving for any other game. Tim Duncan

Good, Hope, Game

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man. Haniel Long

Life, Daily, May

Resting for me is fitness training. Jenson Button

Fitness, Training

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/resting.html#DADE37VR9mFH35f6.99

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain

Sleeping, Exercise, Taken

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. Charles Spurgeon

Life, Faith, Alone

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

Tired, Laziness, Habit

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. Adlai E. Stevenson

Lie, Victory, Rest

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. Hillary Clinton

Bad, Enough, Living

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. Kenneth Grahame

Best, Yourself, Busy

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sleep, Snow, Die

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. Martin Farquhar Tupper

Love, Peace, Men

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body. Katy Perry

Work, Best, Done

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else. Martha Beck

Else, Until, Playing

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think. Zooey Deschanel

Time, Boring, Done

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew Arnold

Character, Culture, Growing

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie. Cynthia Nixon

Time, Hard, Working

I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up. Jeremy Renner

Makes, Guess, Beat

As I hope it doesn't come to the point where I need to take a day off. I feel pretty good right now and I'm not resting or saving for any other game. Tim Duncan

Good, Hope, Game

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man. Haniel Long

Life, Daily, May

Resting for me is fitness training. Jenson Button

Fitness, Training

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/resting.html#DADE37VR9mFH35f6.99My husband had a writer's conference in Fort Worth last week for a couple of days, so I tagged along, while he worked I played at the Modern Art Museum.

My husband had a writer's conference in Fort Worth last week for a couple of days, so I tagged along, while he worked I played at the Modern Art Museum.

Today's painting is a corner of our room at the Renaissance Hotel where we were staying. You can tell it's our room—not to mention names—because those are someone's shoes left sitting out in the middle of the room, just waiting for someone else to trip over in the middle of the night. Just kidding dear, they actually add a human touch.

I painted a similar piece a couple of years ago from this same hotel. I love painting those dark moody shadows and muted colors illuminated by the light of one lone lamp. The ambiance of this wonderful getaway is enchanting, but it sure makes me feel like Cinderella coming home from the ball. Oh well, time to take off that glass slipper...hi-ho, hi-ho...it's back to Conroe I go. 

Thanks for resting and relaxing with me for a spell. 
 -nancy 

PS: If you're in the Fort Worth TX area, be sure to visit the Modern Art Museum. It's like walking on water literally. The current exhibit, Mexico Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 was extremely powerful and one I will never forget.

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To see more of my art or to contact me: Online Gallery  • E-mail  •  Website  • Graphic Design Studio