Roses in May

Roses in May
Copyright 2014 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

-Geoffrey Chaucer

Tulips in the Sun

Tulips in the Sun
Copyright 2014 Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
11" x 14"

Is it so small a thing

To have enjoyed the sun,

To have lived light in the spring,

To have loved, to have thought, to have done. 

-Matthew Arnold

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Baby Moses

Moses in the Reedbed
Copyright 2014 Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"

It has been awhile since I've done a more modern expressionist painting or a Bible story.  Here the baby Moses lays in the basket floating down the Nile river.  The precarious fate of the infant along with the image of the river has always haunted me.  An orphan whose mother cast him out into the dangerous waters because it was his only hope of survival. 

Since I was cut from the reedbed,
I have made this crying sound.

Anyone apart from someone he loves
understands what I say.

Anyone pulled from a source
longs to go back. 

-Rumi

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Enjoying the Roses

Enjoying the Roses
Copyright 2014 Addie Hirschten
Acrylic on Canvas
16" x 20"

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

-Dale Carnegie

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