splitbritches' profile

Eons member since

Feb 15, 2008

Age, Gender

47, Female

Hometown

South Jersey

Places I've been

I'm a huge fan of Pre-Raphaelite Art and have traveled to England to see a good deal of it. I ADORE Great Britain! The castles, cathedrals, villages.....it's an inspiring history of art and architecture....where new blends with ancient and the people respect their history. Wales is particularly breathtaking, dotted with sheep and heather and the ruins of ancient border castles. To see one of the best collections of Pre-Raphaelite art on the East Coast of the US, one needs only visit the Delaware Museum in Wilmington.....But Nothing beats the Tate Gallery and The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery(who holds the largest Pre-Raphaelite collection in the world), Been up n down the east coast from Mass to Key West, Bahamas, Mexico, Canada, Cayman Islands, but only as far west as Illinois.

Education

• Degree in Fine Arts, Art & Latin - 1987 to 2001
• also in Business , Associated Business School - 1979 to 1981

More about me

I'm a 46 yr old artist, wife(of 27 yrs) & mother(of 2) who works part time for a company that affords me fabulous benefits & pension.  "I'm a lucky girl, I'm a lucky girl, I'm a lucky girl".....I keep telling myself that!

Activities

Painting, Sculpture, Pottery, Drawing, Beading, Sewing, Writing, Reading, Visiting Art Museums and Galleries, Doing Coffee, Perusing Flea Markets & secondhand book-sellers, Renaissance Faires, dining with friends, crocheting, Camping etc etc

Favorite Charities

Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue

Favorite Music

Renaissance, Chamber, Celtic, especially Hammered Dulcimer & Celtic Harp, Steven Halpern, Bagpipe, Folk, Stevie Nicks, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Jefferson Airplane, The Bangles, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, The Carpenters, Chicago, Jim Croce, Carol King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Queen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Enya, Black Sabbath, Dropkick Murphys, Tchaikovski, Jimi Hendrix(Blues), Don McLean, Arlo Guthrie, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Don Henley, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, The Andrew Sisters, The Beatles, The Who, The Go-Go's, Alice Cooper, Neil Young, John Prine, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Yes, Aerosmith, Bad Company, James Taylor, Cream, Eric Clapton, Blarney(Local band), Edgar Winter, Foghat, BTO, Heart, Alanis Morissette, Meatloaf, B-52's, Blue Oyster Cult, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron Butterfly, etc

Favorite TV Shows

The Vicar of Dibley, Saturday Night Live, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Nanny and the Professor, Get Smart, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Mothers-in-law, Laugh-in, Quantum Leap, The Monkees, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, One Day at a Time, Will and Grace, Just Shoot Me, The Tracey Ullman Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Mary Hartman - Mary Hartman, Mr. Ed, Hazel, Batchelor Father, Kimba - The White Lion, Lost in Space, My Three Sons

Favorite Movies

Le Violon Rouge, Vincent and Theo, Artemesia, The Lord of the Rings(all), Harry Potter(all), Suspiria, As Good As It Gets, The Dinner Game, Braveheart(YES, I know it was massively innacurate), Rob Roy, A Knight's Tale, Elizabeth, Queen Margot, Dragonheart, Ladyhawke, The Lion in Winter, The Name of the Rose, Gladiator, Troy, Excalibur, First Knight, Titus. Mostly anything of period value, particularly historical Roman, Celtic, Italian Renaissance, Medieval, certain French, argh....too much to illustrate! I like comedies too...and Disney and anything with Johnny Depp or Anthony Hopkins.

Favorite Books

or more apropos, "Authors" : Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Martial(The Roman Oscar Wilde), Plautus(You've got to love a bawdy playwrite!), Catullus, Chaucer, Jane Austen, George Orwell, DH Lawrence, Ellis Peters, Kate Sedley, the tawdry yet hyper-hot "Sleeping Beauty" trilogy by A.N. Roquelare, anything dealing with Arthurian Legend, Mythology, and the beat goes on....I have scads of books....tons actually! Mostly art books, intriguing non-fictions on a wide array of subjects, antique Lit tomes, mucho-mucho design books, yadda-yadda. Here's what a geek I am tho....I like to orate from my latin books aloud in the misunderstood-but-not-dead language of the Romans, perched upon any piece of furniture that will hold me! My puppy-dogs find me fascinating!!

Favorite Quotes

De Gustibus Non Disputandem Est!

Favorite People

My Kids, Leslie, Suzie, Einstein, etc

Favorite Places

England, Wales, The Jersey Shore, Chincoteague & Assateague Va, Disney World, Martha's Vineyard Mass, NYC, Philly, DC...I love Museums & Galleries!

Favorite Animals

Doglets, Horses, Bunnies, Hamsters, Giraffes, Polar Bears, Sea Otters, Seals, Meerkats,

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