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Landing

By Teresa Jordan on March 7, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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The Dance

By Teresa Jordan on March 6, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Territorial

By Teresa Jordan on March 5, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Hummingbird IV

By Teresa Jordan on March 4, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Hummingbird III

By Teresa Jordan on March 3, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Hummingbird II

By Teresa Jordan on March 2, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Little One…

By Teresa Jordan on March 1, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

I’m not done with cranes yet,.. not at all. But I’m taking a break from some of the biggest birds in the world to focus on some of the smallest.

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Courting

By Teresa Jordan on February 28, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

Reminds me of adolescence…

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Heading Out

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

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Gratitude

By Teresa Jordan on February 26, 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.