Texas, USA
By LainybelleI just got hold of my first ever postcard from Postcrossing! There was a heavy downpour one afternoon and I found the card lying so wet in our terrace.
Oh my! I tried to dry up the card real quick. I was glad to have saved it 
The card traveled from Texas, USA approximately 13,118 km (8,151 miles). The sender chose the artistic postcards painted by the famous Susan Seddon Boulet. Susan was born in Brazil but got her training as an artist in the US.
Susan Boulet’s art has had a profound influence on many people. She was a prolific artist whose themes ranged from portrayals of medieval figures and fantasy characters in her early work to goddesses and shaman figures in more recent images. Working principally in oil pastel, inks and occasionally pencil, she developed a distinctive personal style characterized by the use of color applied in layers from which dream-like forms emerged. Susan Boulet drew her inspiration from a wide variety of sources: mythology and poetry, Jungian psychology and worldwide spiritual traditions, as well as a deep love of animals and the natural world. Underlying her work is a spiritual quality and a universality which strikes a chord in people from many walks of life. Her paintings have been widely reproduced and are held in collections around the world. Published works include Shaman: The Paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet (1989), and The Goddess Paintings (1994), both published by Pomegranate Artbooks in Rohnert Park.
The inspiration that people drew from Susan Boulet’s work was often heightened by their meeting her in person. She loved to be present when her paintings were shown and those who met her, however briefly, were invariably touched by her empathy, gentleness, modesty and charm. Her ability to listen and make personal connections won her innumerable admirers. Indeed, one of her greatest challenges was to balance her artist’s need for solitude with her love of friends. At a recent gathering in her honor a large number of people paid tribute to her generosity, sense of humor and the profound influence her art had exerted upon their lives. Susan Seddon Boulet was married to Larry Boulet who died in 1980. She is survived by a son, Eric, and a brother, Patrick Seddon, of Oakland, California, and her step-mother, Naide Seddon, and a brother, Ernani Seddon, of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Source: www.well.com/~davidu/boulet.html)
Here’s an informative message along side the card:
Leave a Comment
4 Comments
July 4th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
super like! buti ka pa..ako wala pang narerecve from postcrossing official.. meron na ako dun 5 registred at 5 na hindi pa..10 na lahat ang naipadala ko dun..baka this week..
[Reply]
Lainybelle Reply:
July 5th, 2011 at 2:36 am
Hala! Andami na pala! I have only sent out 3 when i got hold of this card. I sent out again another one yesterday. Will be sending out more once the customized postcards from Gensan are done
[Reply]
July 20th, 2011 at 6:14 am
Wow! It’s a beautiful postcard! I love paintings!
[Reply]
September 25th, 2011 at 9:24 am
Hi,
Me again….anyway this is cool..are you collecting postcard? thanks sa visit sa akoang blog..taga-asa ka sa gensan? Me sa lagao me naga stay..
[Reply]