Well I moved out of the cottage studio today after a pretty terrific two years there. I became kind of attached to the funny little house, the nice neighbors, the breezes blowing through on a summer day. I made a lot of work there and learned how really important it is to have a space away from “normal” life. No phone, no junk mail, no kitchen appliances–hence no cooking! Just two tables, a lot of paint and paper, and me. Carolyn came and we had a terrific week of art-making, friends came and brought things (or made things)
I painted roses on the wall while the roses bloomed outside the door
…everything out but the paint chest
(Stay tuned for cottage studio, chapter 2…)
On The Way 
A bittersweet passage. Always a bit of a wrench to move one’s workspace…at least for me. Love your line drawings. (and the red thorns stuck w/ green tape)…breathlessly awaiting chapter 2.
you are SO right…always a wrench to leave a good workspace. The first thing I put up in the NEW cottage studio will be the red rose twig with the green tape…looks like October…?
We’ll miss this little house. It hosted us very sweetly on a few Thanksgiving weekends. But your new plan is exciting. Think we’ll all fit in there?
Now just a sweet memory…..
good bye, wonderful space, what a great time i had in you with bon, the quietening of the mind and the focussing of ideas–goodbye goodbye goodbye
a lovely homage to a workspace!!