Collecting, Painting in Florence Thimgan Hayden Collecting, Painting in Florence Thimgan Hayden

What's the Story Behind Thimgan’s Art?

I enjoy reading about the lives of artists and finding interesting intersections in their lives and social circles. Take the Pre-Raphaelites or Impressionists (any school of art) and we discover painters, sculptors, poets, writers and musicians who mingled and influenced one another.

By owning a Thimgan Hayden original, you are participating in an art lineage, a provenance story, that will outlive us both.

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What Every Painter Wants

In this case, Leeanne Seaver (Wonder Woman of word and camera) is a dear friend and wrote this beautiful blog post, the sky inside, linked about the making and new life of her Scottish gloaming painting, ‘Wolfy’s Sunset’.

if you’re as fascinated as I am with the powerful relationships that can happen because of art and how creativity can knit us together, then please jump to Leeanne’s blog post. You’ll enjoy it. But do me a favor and pretend I’m not wearing Crocs.

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The Simple Guide to Art Collecting

Original art will outlive both the collector and the maker. Since the dawn of time, people have had the compulsion to create art and organize their life experiences into “story” through pictures, poetry, music, and a variety of narrative forms. I’ve stood in front of pieces and wept unexpectedly….

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ON MY TRIP TO AN ANTIQUES SHOW IN BALTIMORE AND WYETH COUNTRY

Inside three days, I whisked through hundreds of booths of amazing art, saw some favorite pieces in the Cleveland Museum of Art, and visited the Brandywine River Museum, as well as an a tour of Andrew Wyeth’s studio which he used until his death in 2009, if I understood correctly. The Brandywine River setting alone was breathtaking…some pastorals will come out of what I saw there.

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