"Adirondack Life" Magazine 1-800-877-5530	March 1999	Spring Melt, Crane Mountain Oil/paper 30 X 22.5 Collection of Oakes Electric, Albany, NY
"Painting the Spring" by Anne Diggory An excerpt: "Spring can be declared by the calendar, the weather or the appearance of crocuses. But as a North Country painter, I mark the new season as when bright colors return to my brushes, when oils can be replaced by watercolor (they won't freeze anymore) and when I don't have to work outdoors wearing thick gloves and heavy clothing. Also, I can turn to my favorite themes, the covering and uncovering of forms and the energy apparent in things that are changing. Everything in the landscape appears to be moving. Ice is breaking up; water is flowing. Trees are progressing from gray to red to the "spring green" we all had in grade school crayon boxes. In the deep freeze's thawing I see a metaphor for the awakening of frozen artistic impulses: from stillness emerges an explosion of dramatic form."

Here are visual references for the article. They were not reproduced in the magazine:

Mount Marcy in Early Spring acrylic on canvas 3x10'	Detail of Mount Marcy	Giant Mountain in Late Spring acrylic on canvas 3x10'

 

Emerging Hudson #1 pencil 25x38"	Emerging Hudson #2 pencil 25x38"	Emerging Hudson #3 oil on paper 22.5x30"	Emerging Hudson #4 oil on paper 22.5x30"