ABOVE:
“Hudson River Quiessence”
5’X7’ Giclee on linen canvas.
Unframed.
Price: $1,700
Prompt Delivery.
I painted this when I was age 17 (1967). It took three months. It is an impressionist view of the Hudson River Palisades from my family home. (Original: Griggs Collection, Hawaii.
To order a Giclee print on linen canvas, write me, Thomas McCain
Email: nipponforest@aol.com
BELOW:
“Mist and Rocks in France.”
Price $1,700
Gic lee on linen canvas
Size: 5’ X 5’ approx.
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Far right, The Chelsea Wind Harp I built at age 19/20. I have a new one designed for Nikko, Japan.
Right: you can see some of the “fiddleneck” fern-shaped string holders I hand-forged by pounding steel rods into these shapes on an old blacksmith’s wood-stoked forge. Originally recorded as a double-album by United Artists Records in 1971. Remastered digitally as a CD in 2007. Write to me at nipponforest@aol.com.
“The wind plays the 86 strings and the “music” is
so ethereal...”
I painted this at age 15 when I lived in a small village in France and painted this for three months while living alone in a barn on a mountainside a honey farmer allowd me to stay in. I bought paints from nearby Strasbourg in Germany.
“Sechuan/China Girl”
Size: 1.5’ X 1.5 ‘
Colored Pencil
Cost: $700. Unframed
Giclee Reproduction.
Prompt Delivery.
Order: nipponforest@aol.com
“Ken’s Friend” 2005
Colored pencil.
An example of work
I do from pet photographs.This
took me more than a month,
working daily. I was happy that I felt the dog’s eyes really seemed alive. To order a Giclee reproduction of this artwork on high-quality art paper, please contact me:
“Grace Park”
Size: 14” X 17” approx
Colored pencil.
Cost; $900 (12 only available)
Giclee on fine French drawing paper.
Unframed.
Prompt delivery.
“Ryoko Mitake” 2000
Colored Pencil
Giclee on high quality
art paper. Unframed.
Size: 1.5 feet X 1.3 feet approx
Colored pencil.
Cost; $700
Prompt delivery.
Note: My drawing is the one
with the birch trees because I know she likes trees, hiking and forests. The left image is the original photo taken in a subway station.. She later became a famous Tokyo magazine model.
I was living in Nikko
Japan at the time, alone, drawing and painting. This portrait took one month.
In Nikko Japan, 2009.
FINE PORTRAITURES
I also do fine portraiture work. People and sometimes animals/pets sometimes on a commission basis and sometimes I have chosen my own subjects. Here are four artworks that are available for sale as Giclee reproductions, highest quality on imported highest
quality art paper.
Apppraised in Japan at $60.000 (¥6 million). Original not for sale.
Appraised in Japan at $90.000 (¥9 million).
Artworks
by Thomas McCain
The Chelsea, Vermont
Wind Harp
Listen to an audio clip of the CD. Click on album cover
on the bar below.
To purchase a CD of the original
United Artists Records recording,
recently digitally remastered, please
write to me Thomas McCain
If you would like a wind harp
(new design) built in your country, please write me: nipponforest@aol.com.
Tel: USA/Hawaii 808-238-0789
TRANSLATION English ><Japanese & Chinese
May 2012
Greetings from
Thomas and Kana.
We are currently editing/updating
our website.
ENGLISH. We will edit/upgrade/polish/proof any document.... legal, public talk, essay assignment or book.
Thomas has been a professional writer and journalist for 27 years. Excellent writer. Education: Columbia University, Bennington College. “I am 61 and quite nimble as a word craftsman.” Conscientious, caring service, reasonable rates. (Hundreds of articles published. Samples upon request.) RESUME CLICK HERE
Email: nipponforest@aol.com
COPYEDITING/polishing By Thomas and Kana
TO K YO J A P A N
We recently purchased a very big beautiful home in Waikoloa VIllage, Big Island, Hawaii. It has two “Wings” two bedrooms each side. We are going to rent ONE WING, with two bedrooms, either individually, or together as a whole WING.
Dawn. November 1, 2008 . Lake Chuzenji, Nikko, Japan.
This lake is the highest lake in Japan and “discovered” by a Japanese hermit/monk Shoto in 1273 AB (After Buddha) in the Nara-Heian Period of Japan.
The mountain in the photo is Mt. Nantai, considered to be home of Kami, Spirits, and the mountain is sacred to Japanese. Climbers are allowed to hike to the top on a rough trail only once a year. There is a small stone Shinto shrine there.
I lived in Nikko, a temple village near this lake for a year and this area of Japan and its
forests and peace are very dear to me.
BELOW MY BROCHURE FOR KODAIRA INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP
ART EXHIBITION,
TOKYO, JAPAN, NOVEMBER 26TH, 2008.
CHELSEA WINHARP Vermont
PLEASE email me at: nipponforest@aol.com if you wish to purchase a high-resolution Giclee reproduction on
linen canvas of any of the above artworks
or commission an original new work.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMISSION your own WIND HARP?
NEW DESIGN TO SUIT YOUR LOCATION... on personal property, commercial venue, park, nature reserve etc....
I will design/build it so it “blends” into local topography and tailor it to your personal aesthetic sensibilities.. too........Please write me at nipponforest@aol.com or call 808 238-0789.
FYI: My Nikko, Japan wind harp I have long been working on to bring into manifestation...succeeded through all the bureaucratic hurdles and approved by Mayor, Prefecture and Village Elders Council and was set to go on Federal Forest Land.... but now is “on hold” indefinitely as the town struggles through financial tsunami setbacks... So I am quite free now for any new invitation....Love to discuss any query... You will be heartened I know that I never did, nor do, wind harp making with a “profit motive”...so you will find me very amenable to keeping costs at a minimum and make it happen. Let’s make it thinkable... To this day, I receive letters from visitors who hiked up a hill to my 1971 Wind Harp in Chelsea, Vermont. Somehow, seeing/hearing Nature/wind “playing” a harp is such a joyous uplifting experience....
Lake Chuzenji, Nikko, Japan
FIN
ARCHITECTURAL WORKS
Designed and built by Thomas McCain and James Acker. Mauritius ’96-’99.