A message from Art and Theatre Critic, and Blogger extraordinaire,
Ed Rubin
“Good Morning Visual Loving Possums,
As a stalker of fine artists I have been seriously following, as well as writing about the work of New York City/Vermont based artist and writer Mary Hrbacek, the renowned painter of trees for a decade or two. I have been watching series after series of her anthropomorphic tree portraits, one after another, like a Chekhov play brilliantly unfolding.
…Hrbacek’s brain is continually overflowing with ideas on how to re-present trees. How to bring them alive, with respect and dignity, as living thinking creatures of nature who share the earth with us.
…Mary has spent a great deal of her life planting saplings, hugging trees (so to speak), working, painting and living with trees every day of her life.”
For those interested is seeing the breath and scope of Mary’s works,… you can check out her new refreshed website: maryhrbacek.com
Do trees have a spiritual connection with humans? Read Walter Idlewild’s essay on artist Mary Hrbacek: “Tree of Life”
