Interests/Links

Relevant Links

Artistic Sources
www.botanicus.org – an incredible website hosting a scanned library of botanical books dating back to the 1400s

 

Art Links
www.vam.ac.uk – Victoria and Albert Museum, London. A celebration of objects

www.internationalfolkart.org – Santa Fe’s magical museum of folk art from around the world

www.musee-moyenage.fr – Paris’ Cluny Museum. A special place and Paris’ most underpublicized cultural treasure

www.deyrolle.fr – the most amazing and strangest shop in Paris featuring taxidermy masterpieces

http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/ – Royal British Columbia Museum – take two days for this one, it never ends. Inserts you into different worlds like no other museum I have ever been to.

www.mingei.org – Mingei International Museum  – a San Diego treasure

www.kew.org – Royal Gardens at Kew – London’s amazing Victorian glass palaces filled with amazing plants

http://www.operaduomo.siena.it/eng/index.htm – my most favorite cathedral in the world (in Sienna, Italy) – look at the floor

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en – Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Rembrandt and Vermeer)

 

Northwest Art Links
www.23sandy.com – Laura Russell’s wonderful gallery focusing on artist made books

Elizabeth Leach Gallery – www.elizabethleach.com

Russo Lee Gallery –www.russoleegallery.com

Augen Gallery – www.augengallery.com

Charles Froelick Gallery – www.froelickgallery.com

Pacific Northwest College of Art – www.pnca.edu

 

Inspirational Links

Powell’s Books – www.powells.com

Daedalus Books – 2074 NW Flanders, Portland

The Tezeta Band – www.tezetaband.com

www.theintertwine.org – The Intertwine Alliance

 

Favorite Books

Non-Fiction:

A Place of One’s Own, Michael Pollan

Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan

Hortus Eystettensis, Basilius Besler

The Collector, Jack Nisbet

The Snoring Bird, Bernd Heinrich

A More Beautiful Question, Warren Berger

Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert

Wild in the City, Mike Houck and MJ Cody

Silva of North America, Charles Sprague Sargent

Humboldt’s Cosmos, Gerard Helferich

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Robert Irwin

Holdfast, Kathleen Dean Moore

Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams

Ways of Seeing, John Berger

The Book, Alan Watts

Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey

Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes

Down the Great Unknown, Edward Dolnick

The Brother Gardeners, Andrea Wulf

 

Fiction:

Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters, J.D. Salinger

Seymour, An Introduction, J.D. Salinger

Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ivan Doig

The Brothers K, James David Duncan

I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb

A Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon

Marten Martin, Brian Doyle

Mink River, Brian Doyle