NATURE WALKS

Helen Kelly Dillon lives in Granville, Vermont, where the countryside furnishes inspsiration for her serigraphs.  Also called "silk screen," a serigraph is produced by using stencils on a fabric screen stretched on a frame.  When the frame is put against the paper, ink is squeegeed through the parts of the fabric which are not shielded by the stencils.  Various colors are added by using separate screens.

Helen sent these samples of her work to Lura Allen Mountford, who relayed them to our website.


Autumn Gold by Helen Kelly Dillon
Autumn Gold
 
Grand View Farm
 
      
Mansfield View Farm
Spreading Elm
Mansfield Farm
  






Fishapod Achievement

Oh ho for the fishapod
He's got the start of legs and arms
and thus moves up to reptile quad,
an ultimate construction mode
that's good for us when we appear.
First we slither, then we crawl,
pulling up to see it all!


The Dawning Moment

Waking in dreams
to the dawning moment of the radiant world,
shimmering on the edge
where the east-looking poet
captures it with mind and soul,
words responsive as rays touching film.

Whitman says the Body is the Soul,
I say the body gives means to the soul,
to take flight along the eyeward path
to reach the Dawn
and to return
to my hand
writing this poem.

June 18, 2005


Two more by Fran Janssen