Category Archive: SPARK 7

Jean Gordon and Brian MacDonald

Jean Gordon and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Picnic by the River By Jean Gordon Response Bread is spread with mustard Stuffed with ham and cheese Packed with drinks in a cooler And set on the backseat Meandering …

 

Sukia and Barbara Bever

Sukia and Barbara Bever

Sukia Response This I Know By Barbara Bever Inspiration Piece Stately oaks and maples cast cool shadows over the boulevard. Manicured hedges border the edges of well-mown lawns, embracing frame …

 

Peg Bruhn and Marge Amey

Peg Bruhn and Marge Amey

Peg Bruhn When It Is My Child Watercolor, 10 x 14 inches Response Perspective By Marge Amey Inspiration Piece It is 1968.  He is my husband.  He is a Marine Corps helicopter …

 

Matthew Taylor and Jay Smith

Matthew Taylor and Jay Smith

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Indrina Kanth and Cara Mayo

Indrina Kanth and Cara Mayo

Cara Mayo In the Woods Inspiration Piece The Clearing By Indrina Kanth Response She met him in the wood when she was young, when she first moved to the house on …

 

Ray Sharp and Al Rudkin

Ray Sharp and Al Rudkin

Al Rudkin The Cobb (or The Sea Wall) Inspiration piece The Cobb By Ray Sharp Response How many times I have come down to the sea with an unquiet mind! From Lyme Regis, …

 

Al Rudkin and Ray Sharp

Al Rudkin and Ray Sharp

Al Rudkin Snow Angel Response Snow Angel By Ray Sharp Inspiration Piece Have you ever been mesmerized by snowflakes bright against the night like a billion white moths like pieces of the clouds kissing your …

 

Jim Tretick and Lisa Ventrella

Jim Tretick and Lisa Ventrella

JimTretick Response I received the inspirational piece from Lisa Ventrella. I interpreted the story as someone getting lost in artwork. I found this house and this church, …

 

Ashley Seitz Kramer and Rachel Morton

Ashley Seitz Kramer and Rachel Morton

Rachel Morton Hand-Built Clay Inspiration Piece Ashley Seitz Kramer Response FEVER/ISH …………for Ignaz Semmelweis, 1818-1865 He is with a patient now—a woman wet …with fever & flooding & there is blood & soon …

 

Charisse Cecil and Lizzie Parker

Charisse Cecil and Lizzie Parker

Charisse Cecil Unperceptive Glances Collage/Acrylic, 8 x 10 inches Response Surface By Lizzie Parker Inspiration Piece surface still is easy rolling off rain down paths of disciplined suffering toward release as bliss and attuned projecting unperceptive glances overlooking divided …

 

Amy Souza and Irene Plax

Amy Souza and Irene Plax

Amy Souza Untitled Acrylic and collage on canvas, 15 x 30 inches Response Untitled By Irene Plax Inspiration Piece Beneath the grey winter light from the enormous overhead window, Nadine felt many things …

 

Lauren B. Flax and Vita Sims

Lauren B. Flax and Vita Sims

Vita Sims Yellow Room at Balla Cragga Inspiration Piece Burning By Lauren B. Flax Response Piece The cool slats of wood under my feet as I rose from bed anchored me …

 

Jewel Beth Davis and Susan Kerr

Jewel Beth Davis and Susan Kerr

Susan Kerr Inspiration Piece Swimming Up By Jewel Beth Davis Response So it’s a dream? …….No, not a dream exactly. A vision? …….Maybe. No. I don’t know. I’m not asleep. It feels like …

 

Melissa Pasanen and Jim Doran

Melissa Pasanen and Jim Doran

Jim Doran Bottled Inspiration Piece My Devil By Melissa Pasanen Response There are those who dream Of genies in bottles, but I have a devil. Better the devil you know Than the devil you don’t. Petulant, …

 

Marla Deschenes and Rusty Lynn

Marla Deschenes and Rusty Lynn

Rusty Lynn Red Rocks Break Up Mixed media on paper mounted on MD Board, 18 x 24 inches Inspiration Piece Trees By Marla Deschenes Response There will never be another time as …

 

Amanda Brainerd and Amy Souza

Amanda Brainerd and Amy Souza

Amanda Brainerd Response On the Wind By Amy Souza Inspiration Piece The amethyst-colored bug flew into the room, enraptured by the wind. Like the tiny Chihuahua, just seven pounds, grabbed by a gust and carried seven …

 

Sherry L. Cogan and Theresa Mason Riffle

Sherry L. Cogan and Theresa Mason Riffle

Sherry L. Cogan Acrylic 24 x 18 inches on panel Response Teri’s Song Lyric By Teri Mason Riffle Inspiration Piece You have always been a part of me as long as I …

 

Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Amy Souza

Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Self-Portrait Gouache on paper Inspiration piece Shoshanna By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Response You have a friend named Shoshanna who has a twisted mane of black curls and a button nose …