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By Teresa Jordan on July 27, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Smudge

By Teresa Jordan on July 26, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Who Knew Ostriches Could Be So Addictive…

By Teresa Jordan on July 25, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Ostrich Feet

By Teresa Jordan on July 24, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Dance of the Sugar Plum Ostriches V

By Teresa Jordan on July 23, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Dance of the Sugar Plum Ostriches IV

By Teresa Jordan on July 22, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Quick Sketch Quail

By Teresa Jordan on July 21, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Quick Sketch Heron

By Teresa Jordan on July 20, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Birds on a Wire

By Teresa Jordan on July 19, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Dance of the Sugar Plum Ostriches III

By Teresa Jordan on July 18, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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All Marie ever wanted in life was to work outside with horses and cattle and dogs. As a girl, she worked alongside her father and brother; when she married, she and her husband John Bell bought a neighboring ranch. Teresa wrote about Marie in both Cowgirls and Riding the White Horse Home. One of her stories–about women who rode through the country when she was a girl, breaking horses for pay–intrigued the novelist Molly Gloss, and served as the inspiration for her wonderful book, The Hearts of Horses.

The signature stamp Teresa uses on her prints is a Japanese hanko, or chop. For Westerners, a hanko is often designed with kanji – idiographic symbols – that represent the sounds of the syllables in the person’s last name. Because many words sound the same, the particular characters chosen have significance. When Teresa and her husband, Hal Cannon, visited Japan many years ago, they had the gift of staying with Kimono artists who generously selected kanji for “Jordan.” The top kanji translates as “clarity” or “purification,” and the bottom one represents “dawn” or “morning.” These kanji turned out to be auspicious, for more than a decade later Teresa began a daily painting practice with the hope of starting each day anew. Now she uses this beautiful hanko on her prints.