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Splashdown

By Teresa Jordan on February 15, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Weather Coming In

By Teresa Jordan on February 14, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Bird’s Eye View II

By Teresa Jordan on February 13, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Whooper Swan

By Teresa Jordan on February 12, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Bird’s Eye View

By Teresa Jordan on February 11, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Heron in a Dream

By Teresa Jordan on February 10, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Blue

By Teresa Jordan on February 9, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Overhead

By Teresa Jordan on February 8, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

Walking home from the studio tonight a flock of Canadian geese flew overhead so low I could see the buff of their bellies and hear the synchronous swoosh of their wings. Such things make me happy to be alive…

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It Ain’t Over ’til the Fat Robin Sings

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

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Settling In

By Teresa Jordan on February 6, 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.