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Living simply
To order our work, Click this link, to visit our page and like to receive updates... most of our available jewelry will be found here
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The House we lovingly designed and built...
Click to see the steps involved in our process
click for Ear Studies in Pencil, Charcoal, and Conte
Click to Read and See
click to see the process
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click to enlarge
click to see Sequence... taken from my old Studio Window when we lived on a bluff overlooking the Bay of Fundy, NB
Click to See Why
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Offering to Spring
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click to see them All
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...click pic...
click to see John painting this.
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Go Placidly Amid The Noise And Haste and Remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; And listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; They too have their story...
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you will become vain and bitter; For always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans...
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; It is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism...
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass...
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself...
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should...
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul...
With all the sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.......
........ Max Ehrmann 1927
click for a few of my Insect Studies
St. Martins Art House ~ SOLD
Click for a Tour through the morning dewdrops.
click pic To Wander through our garden on a misty August day
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... with the Renaissance Man
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Cat and Bird, click pic to go to post.
click to see more, but these are sold out
Copper and Silver Desideratum Art Jewelry
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We recommend polishing our Silver and Copper jewelry with a silver polishing cloth
Sorry... Sold-Out
Works of Art and Musings of Living a Frugal Artistic Country Life in Central New Brunswick, Canada
First Fire of the Season
Living simply
*** - The SABBATICAL - Time to explore ***
Since 1992 we have been creating our whimsical Desideratum Art Jewelry, we are now taking a Sabbatical. Yes, indeed... we have waited a long time for this. The freedom to explore and experiment with abandon and to indulge ourselves in the many fields of creativity that have been simmering away on the back burner.
...and still occasionally creating a piece of jewelry and placing it on our FB Business page Desideratum Art and Jewelry
The prospect of the future is Exhilarating to say the least.
Thank You so very much to Everyone, Individuals and Shop Owners, who have followed our work all these years... we dearly appreciate it... we hope to have lots more things to share in this next chapter of our lives.
Cheers and all the Best
- Gwen Buchanan
- near Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
- Visual Artist/Jeweler/ Designer/Artisan... of our whimsical and unique handmade Silver and Copper DESIDERATUM Art Jewelry ... and architectural wanderings..... I live surrounded by Nature. It's where I ponder the ways of the world, make things, live simply, practice good old-fashioned common sense and value honesty and freedom. I try to involve myself in Artistic endeavors that hopefully and humbly will make the world more Beautiful. Thank you so much for visiting... Enjoy Your Life... Be Happy. All Designs and Art Work, Visual and Written are Copyright ©2025 Gwen Buchanan ... unless otherwise stated
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St. Martins Art House ~ Sold in 2016
The House we lovingly designed and built...
Creating an Entrance on a Gallery we once Rebuilt from a Fallen-down Garage
Click to see the steps involved in our process
10 Drawings of Ears
click for Ear Studies in Pencil, Charcoal, and Conte
Ode to Crow
Click to Read and See
The Making of the Wild Goose Chase Quilt
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Building a Dry Stone Wall and Stone Stairs
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One Thing After Another
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Sunlight Beaming through Moving Clouds
click to see Sequence... taken from my old Studio Window when we lived on a bluff overlooking the Bay of Fundy, NB
The Rhyme of Tabitha and watercolor
Best 1st day of spring ever!
Click to See Why
The ABC's of Patterns ........... Once Upon A Book
Copper Halo Earrings
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After Durer - My Interpretation
Offering to Spring
Making Do... just can't throw them away yet
J.M. Barrie - a watercolor and examination - He wrote Peter Pan
Borzoi... Pen and Ink / Watercolor
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The Feather Edged Star story
So Beautiful
Cross Hatch
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My Book Cover Art on Kevin J Grote's Books
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Series of my Hand Drawings with Quotes
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Romantic 8' handmade Door that John created from a church window
Feather watercolor ...just do it
Egon Schiele ... my way
The Human Skull ....Watercolor and description
There is No Wealth But Life
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Porcupine watercolor and story
Lucian Freud... My Interpretation
"Becoming One" ... our Desideratum logo
Animals We Know and Love
"Girl from the Fog" painting, 8' x 10'
click to see John painting this.
My Little red fox story and Watercolor
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My Interpretive Painting of Francis Bacon
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The Nuthatch ... watercolor and story
Sunflower Linocut Print
DESIDERATUM
is Latin for ... "Your Heart's Desire"
Tale of The Copper Angel
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Have a Cookie ...recipe
Calling Crow... Rhyme and Watercolor
......My Inspirational Muse .......The DESIDERATA .......
Go Placidly Amid The Noise And Haste and Remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; And listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; They too have their story...
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you will become vain and bitter; For always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans...
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; It is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism...
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass...
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself...
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should...
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul...
With all the sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.......
........ Max Ehrmann 1927
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St. Martins Art House ~ SOLD
I don't know what I like best
Click for a Tour through the morning dewdrops.
To wander through a garden in the fog
click pic To Wander through our garden on a misty August day
Roses in the Gardens of the house we built... now sold
Stroll in Our Nature
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Starting work on the land in St. Martins in 1998 and how it came to be.
... with the Renaissance Man
Dragonfly on Copper Square
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Silhouette of Home
A Few Desideratum Whimsical Jewelry Designs
Cat and Bird, click pic to go to post.
Dragonfly... earrings - drawings - pictures
click to see more, but these are sold out
Boy and Girl Earrings
Copper and Silver Desideratum Art Jewelry
Fiddlehead Earrings
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Sun and Moon
The Book and Mug Earrings
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Girl and her Cat
Treble Clef and Bass Clef Earrings
We recommend polishing our Silver and Copper jewelry with a silver polishing cloth
The Bead People Earrings and How they began
The Muses
Sorry... Sold-Out
desideratum Art Jewelry ... "The Embrace" and Other Pendants
The bay of Fundy .. watercolor and why