Divining away the shadow play
That frightens little children
And sorrowful old men when day
Comes to a fitful, crushing end
And the vaults are again locked
So children, aware they cannot get out
Souls fearfully aging may never again enter
The young have yet to loose their shouts
The old, gambled off and spent it here
At death's door awaiting the grim summons,
While the children look on in darkest common.
© Celeste Plowden 2010
Chris and Rollo
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About Me
- Celeste Plowden
- I learned the art of acrylic and pastel painting through private instruction, after having spent my career as a designer of printed fabrics in the New York market place. I am a graduate of the College of Design, Art and Architecture at the University of Cincinnati, with a major in the History of Art, 1977. Later, I studied printed textile design at Parsons School of Design, in New York. Immediately afterward, I began free lance work for several design studios in the garment district of NYC, where I did re-coloration work for printed apparel fabrics, and sold my own designs through Bread and Butter Designs,also located in New York. In addition, during the 1980's and 1990's, I designed a number of needlecraft and stencil books for Dover Publications. Currently, I am working on a series of exotic birds and other animals done in acrylic paint, with a palette knife, for texture and brilliant color. I consider my paintings to be representational or impressionistic in nature, and I use fantasy colors because what I see often makes me feel these colors,and what would make an interesting composition, rather than using realistic colors.
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