For Every Bird a Nest

For every bird a nest
Wherefore in timid quest
Some little Wren goes seeking round

Wherefore when boughs are free
Households in every tree
Pilgrim be found?

Perhaps a home too high
Ah Aristocracy!
The little Wren desires

Perhaps of twig so fine
Of twine e’en superfine,
Her pride aspires

The Lark is not ashamed
To build upon the ground
Her modest house

Yet who of all the throng
Dancing around the sun
Does so rejoice?

Emily Dickinson

 

June, a summer day

 encaustic on panel, 12x30in

copyright Jan Yates 2014 

 

This is the painting in progress. It's lovely to receive & incorporate  'gifts' into art-kind of like exchanging seeds or plants for your garden-share, nurture, grow...thanks Olga for the feathers!
My July teaching schedule has just been updated, so if you would like to grow your own work of art, please visit
http://www.janyates.com/teaching.html

this whole experiment of green

A little Madness in the Spring

Is wholesome even for the King, 

But God be with the Clown – 

Who ponders this tremendous scene – 

This whole Experiment of Green – 

As if it were his own!
Emily Dickinson

Garden Corner, encaustic /copper on panels, 4x10in, 2014 copyright Jan Yates

(under 140. available online via Paypal. click here to purchase)  Yes, I have posted this poem every Spring-it comes to me as soon as the weather turns, which it seems to be doing -finally- !! Below is another encaustic workshop demo that i quite like. A friend gave me a box of small panels and i have been layering them to make new shapes. I've always been drawn to odd shapes and sizes.

a little madness in the spring

"A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King."
-  Emily Dickinson

April, waiting for May, oil on canvas, 40x40in, available