Artwork by Wendy Jackelow
Spring is coming and the garden is blooming. Join us to appreciate the beauty of nature through the art of tea. The poetry and paintings of Japanese artist Tomihiro Hoshino in his book “Journey of the Wind” will be shared and discussed. These artworks and poetry of Hoshino along with his path to discover his creative journey will serve as inspiration for all of us to paint our own flowers and write our own poems.
Staten Island local artist and professional science illustrator Wendy Jackelow will give a short demonstration on water color painting and be on hand to help us capture the beauty of whatever is in flower in the garden.
See you there!
I felt someone was looking at me
I turned my wheel - chair
A small flower was blooming there
- Tomihiro Hoshino, from “Journey of the Wind”
Rain day: April 16, 2-4pm.
About Wendy Jackelow:
Wendy Beth Jackelow is a Staten Island artist living in West Brighton. Trained as a medical illustrator at the Rochester Institute of Technology, she used her free time during the pandemic to visit Snug Harbor and observe and paint the gardens. 30 sketchpads later, she has a chronicle of the flowers, trees, and landscape as they changed from season to season during the past 3 years.
About Robin Lampman:
Robin Lampman is a published poet and an educator with 35 years of experience teaching in universities, high schools, and elementary schools. She has a Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education and has taught literature in two languages in the public schools in New Mexico, Texas, and New York as well as at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and the American School of Madrid in Spain. She has also taught English as a Second Language to adults at the University of Texas in Austin and at the El Paso Community College in El Paso. Texas. She produced a volume of poetry by eighth graders in East Harlem which was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and published by the Big Read. For the last several years she has been teaching writing classes for The Noble Maritime Collection. She developed and taught an adult class on Poetic Forms and taught classes on the reading and writing of literature in two languages. Robin is currently teaching a class on writing poetry at the Hill Street Community Garden as well as conducting the Shakespeare Reading Group at Art on the Terrace. She is Editor in Chief of Unspoken Word, an online international literary magazine, and she is Director of Poetry and Tea for Tea Arts and Culture.