REACHING

I love the way trees reach for the sky.  Their roots search for water and nutrients and the tips of their branches move eagerly towards the light as they search for their most majestic height.  The natural world tells us everything we need to know about living.

REACHING

Nancy Herman

12" x 9"

Oil on Stretched Canvas

This painting is being auctioned off on DailyPaintworks.  Click here to bid.

Light Through the Trees

Hi,
Back from a sojourn in Brooklyn where my 5 year old granddaughter took my hand and led me to the playground ten or more blocks away down busy streets, telling me when it was safe to cross the street.  AND I got to hold my great granddaughter, Simone, for the first time.  It was a thrill a minute!!!

Anyway back to reality and the ongoing sale of my paintings which feel like my children sometimes but definitely don't hold a candle to the real thing.

Here is the latest $50.00 special.  I love the way the branches seem to come together as if meeting for a confab while all the leaves catch the light.

LIGHT THROUGH THE LEAVES

Nancy Herman

8" x 10"

oil on stretched canvas

$50.00

RED MAPLES AND FOR GET ME NOTS

For Get Me Nots make sure you don't forget them by appearing every spring whether summoned or not.  I love their cheery blueness and welcome them even though they are never exactly where they were intended.  They have a way of their own which makes them truly unforgettable.  

The paintings I am posting lately began years ago and have been updated recently, probably yesterday or the day before.  I am having fun digging in to the old paint to bring it new life.

RED MAPLES AND FOR GET ME NOTS

Nancy Herman

12" x 12"

oil on stretched canvas

$50.00

Two Katsuras

Today's bargain is an oil sketch done outside of my two Katsura trees.  These are Japanese trees that span a huge portion of my backyard.  They are  male and  female and they make plenty of seedlings that I nurture.  I am happy to share these little trees with anyone with a large nice wet place to plant them.  I believe the parents are around 150 years old.

TWO KATSURAS

11" x 13"

Nancy Herman

oil on stretched canvas

SOLD

MERION ROAD AND SYCAMORE STEETS

MERION ROAD AND SYCAMORE STREETS

Nancy Herman

6" x 8"

oil on canvas board

Nature is showing its colors before the grey of winter sets in.  In Merion it is a glorious display everywhere you look.  Here is the scene as the sun lights up the trees on Merion Road and Sycamore Streets.  I pass here almost everyday and it never ceases to delight.

Auction

OASIS ON THE AVENUE

OASIS ON THE AVENUE

Nancy Herman

9" x 12"

oil on canvas board

Right in the heart of the shopping district in Chestnut Hill there is this lovely place to sit down and relax amid some well kept nature.  What a difference this kind of old faashioned town is compared to shopping in a mall with piped in music and nature confined to the very outskirts of the parking lot.

$350.00

LAUREL HILL CEMETERY

LAUREL HILL CEMETERY

Nancy Herman

8" x 6"

oil on canvas

Along the Cynwyd Heritage Trail a lovely allay of trees welcomes all to Laurel Hill Cemetary.  This beautiful spot was"established as a permanent, non-sectarian burial place for the dead, but also as a scenic, riverside sanctuary for the living."*  

Here you can wander for hours in peace and quiet contemplating nature with great views of the river.  Read all about the interesting history of Laurel Hill, begun in 1885 with a new concept in burial grounds which were almost exclusively in crowded church yards at this time. This concept of grand public open space was incorporated into the planning for our great parks, both Central Park in New York City and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.  

* website

$125.00

Rockland Road

ROCKLAND ROAD

Nancy Herman

8" x 6"

oil on canvas board

What a glorious fall we have had!  Walking through the streets of our neighborhood has been a constant surprise as the trees gradually turn from one color to another.  Only today, after the heavy rain, have the leaves finally begun to abandon the trees in huge numbers.  Now we get to appreciate their structural beauty and, for a short time, the carpet of glorious color they have left behind.

Here is a lovely spot on Rockland Road just as it comes into Wynnewood Ave.  with Merion on one side of the street and Narberth on the other before the rain.

SOLD

$125.00

BIRD'S EYE VIEW

BIRD'S EYE VIEW

Nancy Herman

12" X 9"

Oil on canvas board

This is a view from my second floor window of my neighbor's front yard in the morning.
Soon all these trees will be bare, but for now it is a glory of warm colors.   This spectacular display comes just before we are confronted by all the whites and blues of winter in the snow and the grays and beiges of winter without snow.  Better store up all this warmth while we still can and get out there.

$200.00

UNION AVENUE #2

UNION AVENUE 2#

Nancy Herman

oil on canvas board

8" x 6"

The leaves are slowly transforming our streets to glowing colors, each year  intoning their own poignant farewell poem to summer.  Here is a link to UNION AVENUE 1# walking in the other direction in August.

$125.00

IN THE FOG AGAIN

IN THE FOG AGAIN

Nancy Herman

8" x 6"

oil on canvas

We have been having so many weather changes lately that the fog is rolling in more often than before it seems.  There is something about fog that seems to slow things down and invite quiet contemplation.  

I am trying a new technique here.  Not drawing before painting, just right in with lots of paint.  Takes a long time to dry which is why I have not posted earlier.

$125.00