Blue smoke curling azure tenacity
At her fingertips a foretold lingering light shift
To darken the room (I assume) or to loosen
Like some grifter the consciousness from below,
Plying desperado-like in rhythmic modes
Softly seducing the air to curve about
In smoky ghosts before eyes that cannot
Believe themselves to have fashioned a truth
From spectral promise.
© 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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