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| O-045 Blue on Blue by Paula Tooman wc 16x20 $250 |
Paula
Gale Tooman Bio
I feel like I am coming
home when I enter the art show at Ironstone Vineyards. The Gold Country has
always been special to me. My husband and I love sitting on the Ironstone patio
outside the wine tasting room having a glass of wine and some sandwiches. It’s
a privilege to return as a painter to one of my favorite places.
I am Paula Gale Tooman
and I’ve been painting since my mid-twenties. I first got interested in water
color when I took a class from Muriel Doggett in adult education in Pleasanton,
California. It only took six weeks to fall in love with the fluid surprises of
painting with water colors. I’ve never been able to pry myself away from this
medium – it’s exciting, vibrant, unpredictable, and just plain fun. A friend
and I would try to go plein-air painting every few weeks. Sometimes we went to
the Sacramento Delta but mainly we painted in the Gold Country. Dogs loved us,
and people would meander by to see what we were doing. The spectators seemed to
be kind and somewhat envious of the fun we were having.
When I had my first two
children I felt I was too busy to paint. But I didn’t know what busy really was
until my husband and I adopted twelve Ethiopians between 1994 and 1996. I was
too busy to do much of anything. Our last adoption was in 1999 of a handicapped
Down’s syndrome baby girl. But … I still dreamed of those days of painting in
the Gold Country and wanted to try again. When I was in my late fifties I had
only three kids at home – it felt like a vacation.
This last year has been
very busy and quite strange because of Covid-19 and many new commitments. But,
“God willing and the creek don’t rise”, I’ll be spending much more time in my
studio this coming year, and I’m really looking forward taking on new
challenges of in my water color painting.
O-046 Sunflowers in the Alley by Paula Tooman wc 23x18 $225
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