Vermont : A Love Story
Homeward 18x24 oil on linen
“ The next year , I did a smaller painting of Bruce at that same landing , with a skidder . I made a copy of the painting and sent it to him . A week later , his wife called to let me know that Bruce had just died in a logging accident . She kindly told me that he had received the image and loved it .”
David Mance , in his introduction to Shedding Light on the Working Forest , wrote , “ The loggers in Kolb ’ s paintings and Porche ’ s poems may come from different towns , but they are unified by both the work they do and what the work does to them .”
This is how things often go in Vermont , where the population is small enough for us to be connected personally , one to another .
Kathleen recently wrote me :
“ I think about place a lot . And the people , and how my work is affected by both . You have asked what is special about being in Vermont and one gets flummoxed : What is NOT special ?”
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Kathleen Kolb