Untitled Document
Schar Freeman



Winter Blues
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"



"This painting is of a wondrous place here on Kaua'i, the beginnings of the Na Pali cliffs and coast. I went camping there and on the morning we were to leave there was a storm due to arrive shortly and the ocean began to swell with waves that would develop and crash on the shoreline. The sky and sea were almost the same steel-gray color, a rare sight from this island. The softness before the storm, the force of the sea swelling and churning, the clouds gaining thickness shrouding the bluest of sky just had to be captured on canvas."


She Gathers
Oil on Board
28" x 38"



Before I left the mainland, I took a trip home to Clear Lake in Northern California. Clear Lake, which once flourished with Tule, had changed so much from when I was a young girl. My heart broke at the sight of what once was a peaceful lake with giant Tule surrounding the shores, now with motor boats and jet skis polluting the waters where Tule could not survive. This painting was inspired by my memory of the women who would gather and stack the cut Tule. Tule is a reed plant which grows at the water's edge and was used for many things, from baskets, shoes, and baby cradles to canoes by my people, the Wintun, from Northern California.




Schar Freeman is a photographer, painter, and poet who relocated to the lush island of Kaua'i from the Pacific Northwest. Her series of American Native paintings are published internationally with Mother Tongue Ink(1998-2002). She also has work showcased in galleries and collections in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Hawaii. Her photographs, poetry, as well as her painted images, are published with Ladybug Press (1997-2001), as well as in various e-zine on the internet: Journal of Multi-cultural Heartspeak, Moondance Ezine, Child Abuse and Recovery, and Lingerings. She has also been published in the Garden Island Newspaper and the Oregonian. To learn more about Schar and her talents, please visit any number of her web-sites: Portraits of Kaua'i, Creations From Heart, Hawaiian Monk Seal Coalition, and Kaua'i Powwow Council.










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