Room with a View, acrylic, 24x36" © 2011 Michelle Basic Hendry - Winner of the People's Choice Award at the 2011 exhibition "Time Frame" at the Alton Mill Gallery

Michelle Basic Hendry

A vanishing rainstorm left a brisk, penetrating breeze in its wake. The brick house sat blind with its windows shattered or entirely absent, allowing the wind to wander through its rooms unrestrained. A gust moved a loose door, tapping and knocking on its broken jamb. The walls whispered and wailed as the air pushed through the lathe left exposed like an untended wound. The sharp roughness of peeling paint broke off in my hands and when the wind subsided, the house breathed its musty breath over me.

~ Excerpt from “A Muskoka Once Imagined” © 2011 Michelle Basic Hendry  (an upcoming book of paintings from the series and their stories)

“Room with a View” – Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2011 exhibition “Time Frame” at the Alton Mill Gallery

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