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 “fiddlehead” 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 1972. Remastered digitally as a CD. See below. 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, Saverne, France and painted this for three months while living alone in a barn on a mountainside a honey farmer allowed me to stay in. I bought paints from nearby Strasbourg in Germany.
I drew this after
my 3 trips to China 2003-2004.
“Sechuan/China Girl”
Size: 1.5’ X 1.5 ‘
Colored Pencil
Cost: $700. Unframed
Giclee Reproduction.
Prompt Delivery.
Order: nipponforest@aol.com
LEFT
“Ken’s Friend” 2005
Colored pencil.
I drew this for a friend whose dog passed away.
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:
BELOW “Grace Park” 2002
Size: 14” X 17” approx
Colored pencil.
Cost: $900 (12 only available)
Giclee on fine French drawing paper.
Unframed.
“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.
Mejiro, Tokyo, 2009 near the school we founded and ran before moving to Hawaii.
BELOW: Our daughters Huri and Samira.
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.
Highest quality “giclee” reproductions on linen canvas available.
Appraised in Japan at $90.000 (¥9 million).
Artworks
by T. Ward McCain
The Chelsea, Vermont
Wind Harp
Listen to an audio clip of the CD. Click on album cover
on the bar below.
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
33 yrs experience as a professional journalist, writer and editor and managing editor. I will edit/upgrade/polish/proof any document.... legal, public talk, essay assignment or book.
I have been a professional writer/editor and journalist for 30 years. Excellent writer. Education: Columbia University, Bennington College. Conscientious, caring service, reasonable rates. (Hundreds of articles published. Samples upon request.) RESUME CLICK HERE
Email: nipponforest@aol.com
Editing Writing Proofreadng by Thomas McCain
TO K YO J A P A N
G
I met the South Korean golfer Grace Park in 2001 before she had become super famous, when she played in a tournament on the Big Island near where I was living. After she finished, there were no crowds and she was walking around peacefully.... So, I spoke with her and asked her if I could photograph her and draw her portrait. She said “Fine” and we chatted a bit. She is very serious and intense when she is playing, but off the course, very genuine, cheerful, courteous and outgoing.” -Thomas
NEW VERMONT WIND HARP CD $25
A new digital high quality CD remastered from the original 1972 United Artists Records double-album vinyl record release. UA recorded it over a four-day period, capturing most of the tones produced as the 86 strings of varying gauges reverberated the big redwood sounding box.
CD remastered by Roark Barron, a harpist and his son, an audio engineer.
Comes in a “jewel case” with front photo and personal message on back side about the construction of the harp written by me.
4 tracks. 80 min.
Cost: $25 (includes packing and postage to USA. PayPal or personal check.
Simply email me, Thomas Ward McCain with your mailing address: nipponforest@aol.com
and I will send your CD right away. My mailing address is: BOX 38-3122, Waikoloa, HI 96738.
NEW VERMONT WIND HARP CD
reetings from Thomas and Kana. January 2015
Five years have flown by since leaving beloved Japan for this island in the Pacific,
Big Island. Kana has climbed in the hotel management field to manager of Asian Guest Services at Mauna Lani Bay and Bungalows Hotel. In March
2012, Kana bought a magnificent home in Waikoloa Village. We expected our daughters Huri and Samira would soon join us but they finally decided to continue education in Japan. Thus began a 3-year adventure re-landscaping, remodeling this giant home for sale one day.... which is now upon us..... Other than doing some professional editing/writing, I have been focused primarily on the immense task of
landscaping.... Japanese temple grasses, black bamboo, pathways,
stone staircases, flora, ferns and Asian accents. Kana dramatically
transformed the interior with Italian marbles, stylish new flooring and luxury
appointments. We are well and happy and send love to all.
MY NEW TEL: 857 206 3466 EMAIL: nipponforest@aol.com
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.
CHELSEA WINHARP Vermont
PLEASE email me at: nipponforest@aol.com if you wish to purchase a high-resolution Giclee reproduction on fine
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
ARCHITECTURAL WORKS
Designed and built by Thomas McCain and James Acker. Mauritius ’96-’99. Deep royal blue clay/kiln fired earth glazed tiles imported from Sechuan, China. 24-karat gold plated 2-foot spires. One-foot thatch lower roof. Stone-fitted staircase took four master stone layers 5 months to craft. Predominant wood is Indonesian teak. Surrounded by a lake and mago forest. Cost: $3 US million. We did all the fundraising as well. It formed the centerpiece gathering pavilion for a 7-acre public, botanical park – lakes, performing arts staging areas, thousands of flora, trees rare bamboos and waterfalls and pathways..even an “enchanted maze garden” with a British wishing-well (if you could find it.) Dedicated to the youth of Mauritius in a 1999 Opening Ceremony.
BELOW MY BROCHURE FOR KODAIRA INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP
ART EXHIBITION,
TOKYO, JAPAN, NOVEMBER 26TH, 2008.