Prints and magnets are available all season at the Hatmarcha Gift Shop on the Cliffs in Aquinnah.
I enjoyed a very successful show at the Chilmark Library in March 2008. Here's an excerpt from an article in the Martha's Vineyard Times about the show:
"Despite the gray chill that prevailed outside on Saturday afternoon, the Chilmark library's spacious meeting room had a summer feel, its white walls brightened by the sweeps and swirls of color in Peg Thayer's oil paintings. Here is the Vineyard from tip to toe, Gay Head Cliffs to Edgartown Great Pond, lovingly sculpted in super-saturated color.
In "Towards Aquinnah Light," a silver-blue sea embraces softly rounded cliffs, layered in tones of rich clay-brown above smooth coral-tinged sand. A solitary dinghy lies at anchor, the water and sky the feather-light pastels of cool springtime, while the spits of rosy brown sand, the wide, light sky, and quiet, turquoise water in "Slough Cove" emanate a sultry, mid-summer warmth."
You can view the entire article here.
My latest book co-authored with my mother Jane, is now available:
ELDERESCENCE: THE GIFT OF LONGEVITY
By Jane Thayer and Peggy Thayer
Thirty-five million Americans are living beyond the age of sixty-five, a twenty-five
year increase in life expectancy since 1900. This longevity, once the gift
of a few, has become the destiny of many. This time of life is not just about
retiring; in fact many who retire return happily to some type of employment.
It is a new stage of life filled with its own unique challenges and opportunities.
Co-authors Jane and Peggy Thayer, a mother-daughter team of psychologists,
have named this stage of life, "elderescence."
http://www.univpress.com/ISBN/0761831452
Also Available: "The Experience of Being Creative as
a Spiritual Practice: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Study"
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc. 7th Ave New York
Synopsis:
"What is the spiritual nature of being creative? This study is unique in bringing together personal descriptions from practicing artists, writings from the growing literature on creativity as spiritual practice, as well as the author's own understanding as a visual artist. Through descriptions from ten practicing painters who consider their work a spritual practice, the spiritual essence of creativity begins to emerge. This understanding finds roots as the writings of contemporary artists, creativity theorists, and philosophers from several spiritual traditions are explored. This work elucidates not only the experience of being creative as a spiritual practice, but the felt-sense of creative experience and spiritual experience as well."
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Here's an excerpt from an article by C.K. Wolfson that appeared in the Martha's Vineyard Gazette September 9, 2003:
"Ms. Thayer, who has served on the board of the Firehouse Gallery since becoming a year-round resident eight years ago, describes her paintings as larger than life expressions, a connection with colors," and believes her work is influenced by her meditation . "I've heard people say that they feel peaceful joy when they look at the pieces, that they feel the happiness of what it's like to be on the Vineyard," she says.
Her painting process is about trying to conjure the feeling of being at the site. She explains, "I remember what it's like being there, recreating what it feels like to be in the space. As I paint I become one with the spot. It's not a conscious process at all. It's about the state of mind. I'm there. I am the cliff. And it's like a voice that says, “Put a little more gray in that white."'
Subjects such as the lighthouse and cliffs at Aquinnah, are depicted in oil paint shades of beige, soft blues in fluid, interlocking, leaf-like shapes. Each color, like the piece of a puzzle, forms a definite, precise shape. "It's not a tight experience when I'm doing it,” Ms. Thayer says. “But l think it's the movement of the color and the way the paint goes on, that feels loose."
If you would like further information about my work or my book, please contact me by e-mail at thayray@verizon.net.