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November 2024

October 2024

ARBORIST WALK: NOT FOR TREE HUGGERS ONLY!
10/29/2024

Bill Wishner: Visual Hunter
10/29/2024

Can a Village Group Fix Our Healthcare System?
10/29/2024

Community Board Directors Strengthen Village Board
10/29/2024

Connecting with Village Connections: The A, B, C, & D’s of Medicare @ 65+
10/29/2024

Grief is a Journey: Two Paths Taken
10/29/2024

Message from the President
10/29/2024

Promoting Informed & Involved Voters
10/29/2024

What Will Be Your Legacy?
10/29/2024

1619, Approaching the Election...
10/27/2024

Beyond and Within the Village - A Star is Born
10/17/2024

Happiness by Priscilla Leonard
10/11/2024

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
10/11/2024

Unpainted Door by Louise Gluck
10/11/2024

In the Evening by Billy Collins
10/10/2024

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
10/10/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

September 2024

August 2024

1619 Wide Ranging Interests
08/19/2024

1619 Wide Ranging Interests
08/19/2024

First Anniversary
08/19/2024

Alexandra Leaving by Leonard Cohen
08/16/2024

Muse des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
08/16/2024

The God Abandons Antony by Constantinos P. Cavafy
08/16/2024

Ch – Ch – Ch –Changes
08/15/2024

Cultural Activities Team offers an ‘embarrassment of riches’
08/15/2024

Engaging in Pasadena Village
08/15/2024

Future Housing Options
08/15/2024

Message from the President
08/15/2024

There Are Authors Among Us
08/15/2024

Villagers Welcome New Members at the Tournament Park Picnic
08/15/2024

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
08/14/2024

A narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson
08/13/2024

Haikus
08/13/2024

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
08/13/2024

Poem 20 by Pablo Neruda
08/13/2024

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
08/13/2024

Trees by Joyce Kilmer
08/13/2024

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

Emergency Preparedness: Are You Ready?
05/28/2024

Farewell from the 2023/24 Social Work Interns
05/28/2024

Gina on the Horizon
05/28/2024

Mark Your Calendars for the Healthy Aging Research California Virtual Summit
05/28/2024

Meet Our New Development Associate
05/28/2024

Putting the Strategic Plan into Practice
05/28/2024

Washington Park: Pasadena’s Rediscovered Gem
05/28/2024

Introducing Civil Rights Discussions
05/22/2024

Rumor of Humor #2416
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2417
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2417
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2418
05/14/2024

Springtime Visitors
05/07/2024

Freezing for a Good Cause – Credit, That Is
05/02/2024

No Discussion Meeting on May 3rd
05/02/2024

An Apparently Normal Person Author Presentation and Book-signing
05/01/2024

Flintridge Center: Pasadena Village’s Neighbor That Changes Lives
05/01/2024

Pasadena Celebrates Older Americans Month 2024
05/01/2024

The 2024 Pasadena Village Volunteer Appreciation Lunch
05/01/2024

Woman of the Year: Katy Townsend
05/01/2024

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Gina on the Horizon

By Karen Bagnard
Posted: 05/28/2024
Tags: karen bagnard

Circling the Pasadena Village conference room is a series of beautiful plein air landscapes by Gina Frierman-Hunt, a relatively new Village member. 

 

When I asked her how she felt about the show, her immediate response was “it’s fun!” She felt “excited” to be asked to show her work and she enjoyed her opening reception, which was very well-attended.

 

Gina spends her Fridays with a group of local plein air artists. As she explained to me, their biggest challenge is finding locations with great vistas … AND a bathroom nearby. Somehow, they always manage to do that. This group activity feeds her love of landscapes and the wonderful outdoors. Gina is always looking to the horizon for her next painting.

 

Gina is a natural artist but, like many artists, especially women, she spent many years raising kids, keeping a home and working. After the kids were a bit older, she began to take art classes. When she enrolled in a landscape painting class in Santa Monica, she began her love of landscape painting.

 

While most of her works currently displayed at Pasadena Village are digital prints, some are watercolor on synthetic, non-porous Yupo paper and some are acrylic on canvas. Gina’s digital work is produced in an iPad program called Procreate.

 

Gina recently offered a class at Pasadena Village for Villagers who wanted to learn how to use Procreate on their iPads. It was a great success and is making quite a buzz within the Village Art Group.

 

The Village Art Group was a concept introduced by Gina just this year. She wanted to create an art discussion group as stimulating and fun as her Friday plein air group. As an artist myself, it seemed like a great idea. Since artists work alone for the most part and the creative process is often a “solo” experience, we need the companionship of other artists. We need to connect with our creative ideas, experiences and challenges. We learn from each other and, in turn, this connection inspires and supports us. (You’ll learn more about this Small Gathering Group in our next issue.)

 

Gina has shared her creative spirit, joy of the outdoors and friendly manner with Pasadena Village. She has ignited good times and rich experiences for all of us. Recently she guided the Schmoozendoodle group in an effortless journey to produce landscapes of our own using Yupo paper and watercolor paints. Everyone was surprised and pleased at what they were able to paint!

 

As I write this article, Gina and her husband, Paul, are relaxing in Sedona, Arizona. This is a place they love and have visited before. She shared with me the breathtaking beauty she sees from her balcony: red rocks, deep dark trees and a vast sky. My guess is that a new, incredible landscape will be created while she is there.

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