3/4/12
On February 10, 2012 my life changed forever. My mom, our mom, grandma, great grandma left us and went to her heavenly home. Although I am happy for her that she is once again healthy and well and endlessly happy, I am sorry for me. There are many things that were hard about her later years and health challenges that I don't miss, but oh, I do miss her. She was kind always, always cheerful, always an encourager. She was thankful, and lived counting her "many blessings." She prayed for her family by name every day. To anyone else there would have been countless things in her life worthy of complaint, but mom didn't. Complaining was as far away from her thoughts as joy is from sorrow. My mom left me, left all who had the privilege of knowing her, a great, and powerful legacy. Thank you forever my dear momma.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Below there are three art pieces. The first is a portrait of did of my mom, praying for her family. I caught her doing it one afternoon with a white fleece blanket around her to keep her warm while she watched great grandchildren hunt for Easter eggs. The sun was streaming in the front porch and touching her softly as she prayed. I call this portrait, "The Blessing." My mom was an amazing artist although she became a nurse and didn't continue with her artistic talent professionally. The last two images are ones she did while attending the famous Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts when she was in her early 20's.
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2/5/12
We have recently been blessed with a wonderful surprise visit by our son, Jed and his wife, Renae and their 2 month old daughter, Willow. I have personally never been so surprised (because they now live in Indianapolis, Indiana.) It is a long story how they detoured to the West Coast on their way back from Christmas in Edmonton where Renae's parents and sister live. I was praying for their safe arrival back to Indianapolis over the long winter roads and came home that same night to find them in our living room ! ! ! Oh, sweet joy ! ! ! The painting I have done of Willow and Renae was from a hospital photo Jed took of them. It was as close as I could come without being there in person. Our family is most blessed and happy to welcome Willow ! |
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 | Congratulations and well wishes. Willow will probably be a fabulous artist like the rest of the family. Warm Regards to you all. | -- Susan Cohen Thompson, 2/9/12
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| what joy and the story of your surprise visit is a treasure!! Thank you for sharing and spreading the joy! much love to you all | -- Judith Broz Roed, 2/9/12
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4/29/11 | Our home/studio which houses the Dorsey family of artists will be open to the public during the Camano Island Mother's Day Tour. We are not officially on the "tour" this year, but we are officially open. Our hours will be:
May 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 from 10 A.M. to 7 P.M. As always, we are open year around by appointment.
It brings me great happiness to report that I will have available for sale my grandmother's (Fanny Y. Cory's) Fairy Alphabet book. It has been reprinted and sells for $14.95 (plus tax = $16.24).
This is a rather exciting art year for our family. My husband, Jack Dorsey, recently found out he had been awarded a $1,500.00 first prize for his watercolor, "Back Porch Geraniums", the the Artists Association of Northern Colorado 20th Nation Art Exhibition and Sale. The juror, Don Sahli, selected 88 pieces of art from 560 entries.
You are invited to see more of our families work during this time we are open the first two week-ends in May. Our address is 2772 South East Camano Drive, Camano Island, WA 98282. We plan to have ice water, coffee and cookies on hand for all visitors.
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8/21/10 | The Kenmore Art Show has been good to Ann Cory and her family. She has two paintings in the juried art show ("Simple Joys and "The Morning Herald") and the latter of them, "The Morning Herald," received a cash prize and honorable mention. Our son, Jed Dorsey also has two paintings judged in ("Nature's First Green is Gold", and "Standing in Time") and they both won a cash prize and honorable mention!!! Jack Dorsey, Ann Cory's artist husband had two watercolors juried in: "Harrison Rose" and "Stanwood Landmark".
The Kenmore Art Show is open to the public August 21 - 29, 2:30 - 8:30 daily. It's address is Northlake Lutheran Church, 6620 N.E. 185th St. Kenmore, WA. www.artsofkenmore.org.
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8/17/10 | | It is with great pleasure that I tell about a second art exhibit of "Jed Dorsey and his mom, Ann Cory" !!! We are at the Stanwood "Islanders" and the show will be up during August and September 2010.
This restaurant is located in the same building as the Stanwood Movie Pavilion (in the Haggens grocery area). The spacious restaurant walls provide a wonderful backdrop for Jed's 5 paintings and my 11.
All but two of the paintings are original acrylics. Except for a couple, these are a different mix of paintings than our April showing in the Camano Islander Restaurant.
The exact address is of the new Stanwood islanders Restaurant is: 6996 265th St. NW, Stanwood. The Islander Restaurant and Bar opens for business at 11 A.M. and stays open through the evening.
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5/19/10 | Yesterday I received news that two of my paintings were accepted in the upcoming Edmonds Arts Festival juried gallery. I am very pleased. The festival is held over Father's Day weekend, June 18 - 20, 2010. For more information about the details, please see their web site: www.edmondsartsfestival.com
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