I've included a photo of my wife, Gail, who passed away in 2008.
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Self-portrait of Gail in her younger days. |
My house is adorned with her paintings, which she painted in oils.
A scene from the Dylan Thomas movie produced by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole et al. titled "Under Milkwood."
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Painted somewhere around 1997 |
A portrait of my mother. Copied using a small photo. I should have had the small snapshot enlarged to a 10X8, but didn't think of it at the time. |
She signed all the oil paintings she did for me with "Shalott." "The Lady of Shalott" is a beautiful poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson that starts thus:
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot;....
She so loved that poem that she signed her name simply as Shalott.
She passed in 2018. She had a Master's in Psychology and was a senior manager in the HR department of a huge California healthcare organization. She learned to paint by watching her father at work - a WWII Navy Seal.
We were big fans of the Huntingdon Library in San Merino. We were regular visitors back in the days when it was simply a matter of donating a couple of dollars to a security guard on the entrance gate.