Life Imitates Art under the Hudson Valley’s Autumn Evening Skies

  |  October 30, 2014
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The art of Jane Bloodgood-Abrams

On Wednesday, due to rainy skies my best-laid plans of spring bulb planting were thankfully aborted. Confronted with the option of removing dated wallpaper or accepting a long-standing invitation for a gallery tour, I opted for the gallery tour. Upon stepping into the Roundout, Kingston, studio of Hudson Valley painter Jane Bloodgood Abrams, I was instantly transported. The dankness of the outdoors was replaced with the warmth of a room full of billowing skies and graceful landscapes. On my return home the skies cleared and I was startled. How ironic the heavens above were a mirrored reflection of Abrams’ work. Another Hudson Valley moment!

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Clearing October Skies in the Hudson Valley

About Haynes Llewellyn

Haynes Llewellyn, an interior designer, preservationist and accomplished party planner, relocated to the Hudson Valley city of Kingston from Manhattan’s Central Park West neighborhood in 2007. During Haynes’s almost nine years in the Hudson Valley, he has been featured in numerous television, radio, magazine and newspaper interviews. Haynes’s first Kingston restoration project was of a Historic 1840’s Greek Revival home, featured in the recently released Rizzoli Interior Design book Heart and Home: Rooms that Tell Stories by Linda Okeeffe. Haynes has served on a number of boards of directors, event committees and commissions since arriving in the Hudson Valley. Haynes, along with his two Scottish Terrier Rescues and partner Gary Swenson, is currently in the process of renovating his second Kingston home, a 1939 Colonial.

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