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	<title>About Ann</title>
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	<description>Ann Walbert's paintings, abstract and realistic American West studies rendered in oil on canvas.</description>
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		<title>GARDEN ART</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The clever commentator on a very pleasant music program recently made a wise comment about the practice of bloggery.  She remarked that blogs are like diets, easy to start but oh so hard to stay with.  It has been far too long since About Ann has had a proper update, though there is much to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAL JOEY, ART CRITIC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2006, when Ann had newly arrived on San Juan Island and was beginning to explore some of the island&#8217;s many pleasures and places, she decided on an afternoon stroll at the amazing sculpture park near Roche Harbor.  This park is a wonderland in a natural amphitheater surrounded by towering fir and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aboutann.annwalbert.com/?p=56</link>
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		<title>SAN JUAN SALON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each Monday, except when she is traveling, Ann hosts an afternoon of painting and conversation in her studio.  This exercise of talent and mind began a couple of years ago at the suggestion of an artist who is a part-time resident of San Juan Island with a day job as an architect in California.  He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUST IMAGINE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an otherwise clever and thoughtful book, the late, great Richard Feynman, acclaimed as a physicist of note (Nobel Prize: quantum electrodynamics), made what Ann considers a sadly uncharacteristic declaration, saying: &#8220;It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science.  It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aboutann.annwalbert.com/?p=21</link>
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		<title>HEALTH BENEFITS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A week or so ago while on a boating trip to the ever-pleasant nearby city of Victoria in British Columbia, Ann was reading the local newspaper over her breakfast latte and croissant.  She spotted an interesting headline, to wit: &#8220;Looking at a Beautiful Painting Distracts from Pain, Study Reveals&#8221;.  Like most reasonable people, Ann has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aboutann.annwalbert.com/?p=20</link>
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		<title>REQUIEM AND REBIRTH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That unappreciated landscape discussed in our posting of late June as &#8220;A Near Death Experience&#8221; turned out not to have much second wind.  Ann tolerated it for a few weeks as a disruptive influence in her studio, perhaps in the belief that she might learn to live with it if only as an item of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aboutann.annwalbert.com/?p=19</link>
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		<title>ATMOSPHERIC ABSTRACTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some clever person made a wise observations a few years ago in commenting that &#8220;Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.&#8221;  It could easily be true that writing about art is just as meaningful.  Those thick, beautifully produced museum catalogs and coffee table books depicting works of art also assume the task of giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aboutann.annwalbert.com/?p=17</link>
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		<title>A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last couple of years Ann has been working at getting a more regional voice in her paintings and most of these efforts have succeeded very well indeed.  About the middle of May, after flipping through her multitude of sketch books, she settled on drawings she had done last summer, sketches of a lovely, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aboutann.annwalbert.com/?p=16</link>
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		<title>Preface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  H.L. Mencken wrote a book about ninety years ago which he called &#8220;A Book of Prefaces&#8221;.  This was a collection of original and unsolicited prefaces to a number of major literary works.  It was quite a remarkable book since he showed that a proper preface could be as informative and provocative as the book [...]]]></description>
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