Connie J Hickman
From childhood I have had a passion for applying pencil, pen, ink, or paint to paper, canvas or any surface available. Eventually that passion led me to pursue and earn my BA in Art from Gonzaga University where I studied drawing and oil painting with Bob Gilmore and ceramics with Terry Gieber. Other teachers and influences through the years included Elaine Holland and Charles Palmer through the Spokane School of Art.
My Art
Favorite subjects include sunlit trees, sunlit fields, sunlit mountains….. sunlit anything actually, and moonlit nights as well.
Perhaps this poem by Robert Bridges best expresses my attitude toward art:
I Love All Beauteous things
I love all beauteous things,
I seek and adore them;
God hath no better praise,
And man in his hasty days
Is honoured for them.
I too will something make
And joy in the making;
Altho’ to-morrow it seem
Like the empty words of a dream
Remembered on waking.
