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Alden Heck taught art at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia for forty years. She studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, then worked with outstanding mentors to acquire classical painting skills: still-life artist and master frame-maker Robert Kulicke in New York, and in Pennsylvania, representational figurative artist Martha Mayer Erlebacher, and art theorist Myron Barnstone. Her work has been exhibited for decades at the Rosenthal Gallery in Philadelphia."She captures the moment just before clarity comes."- Richard Rosenfeld"Why do I paint? What draws me to the moment just before clarity comes, when understanding hides in mists, before the crow takes flight, when dawn light only hints it will reveal itself... that moment, alas, always disappears!As Wallace Stevens put it:I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendoes,The blackbird whistlingOr just after.Although I have trained in the traditions of European oil painters, I find deep inspiration in the Japanese wabi sabi aesthetic, with its appreciation of minor details of life and insights into the beauty of inconspicuous and overlooked aspects of nature. I am still on the path to perfecting my artlessness."- From the Author's Preface