Pages from George Acock’s desktop calendar series.

For the second year in a row, a lovely little calendar has shown up at my office, sent to me by our good friend, George Acock, who is an architect.

George’s firm, Acock Associates Architects in Columbus Ohio, designed a new home for a client of ours a few years ago. Acock Associates is a full service architectural firm specializing in custom high end residential as well as commercial and institutional projects. George came to Tanglewood Conservatories searching for a company to design and build the custom conservatory that the owner of the property had envisioned being attached to the new kitchen.

The owners, the general contractor and George visited Nancy and I at Tanglewood to “kick our tires” and to plan the new room. Over the course of the next year, Tanglewood designed, fabricated, installed the room and became friends.

In addition to being a very talented architect, George it turns out, is also an excellent painter who has a very unique way of sharing his exquisite works with friends and associates.

Each year, George and his wife travel someplace interesting for a vacation and George paints watercolor scenes of the notable buildings and landscapes he finds there. Upon his return, he prints the images on small cards that fit into a CD jewel case along with a calendar of each month and sends them out as New Years presents. The plastic CD case folds back and becomes a stand that all the cards sit in and as each month passes, the cards are rotated. Very clever and very beautiful.

Two years ago, George and his wife traveled to Tuscany and last year to Puerto Rico. So I was not surprised when the little gem showed up but I was taken by the quality of the images. George paints with an expressive touch that draws one deeply in.

He has some of his watercolors from years past on his website that I’d like to recommend to everyone. The images are in the Gallery section of his company’s website.
http://www.acock.com/Gallery/tabid/83/Default.aspx

Alan