I truly don’t think of this blog as a vehicle for publicizing my own work, but really folks…”it’s been a year in the making”…(as they used to say in the trailers for movies in the 1950’s.) I guess I’ve blogged about it along the way, but now we’re down to the wire…writing statements, taking photos, […]
I headed up to Portland Wednesday with Katy and Kathy to see the Paul Allen Show of Landscapes “Seeing Nature” at the Portland Art Museum, and the Emmet Gowin aerial photos of various nuclear dumps and bomb sites “Force of Nature”…first though–lunch… and a quick run through the Desoto Building galleries…with the emphasis on Blue […]
Once again a week has drawn to a close with the next one looming before us. This past week was one of varied activities which included work, friends, art (of course), family, archives, music. It looked like this… The yard needs some attention as we move into fall, but this was mainly for something pretty […]
It rained today. As my friend Ellen put it, about waking up to a recent rainy Vermont day “…it seemed an invitation to a Reading Day. I accepted.” Ahhh… I think my life to be pretty full and fun…making things, seeing things, good work to do, interesting people, lots of art, a supportive family, beautiful […]
Here’s a little picture-only story of my blissful weekend last week. Katy Vigeland, Nancy Eng and I (one half of the Salem Art Group six) headed to Katy’s family cabin on the Metolius River at Camp Sherman, for 3 days of painting, drawing, talking about art, reading and laughing. There is NO connectivity of any kind […]
We picked up Willamette University Archivist Mary McRobinson this morning and headed up to Portland to visit Mardy Widman. The Widman family has donated Portland painter Harry Widman’s archival papers and materials to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive (PNAA) at Willamette. Today we were going up with Mary to see Harry’s studio, the breadth of […]
The busy summer of writing and sewing has kept us out of the Portland galleries. We were up in the city Saturday though and took in a few. We missed Jack Portland’s talk Saturday at Laura Russo but R particularly wanted to see this painting…”Thanks Louis, I’m just starting to get it.” and I liked […]
Change of season, switching gears, sigh…start over…shut the studio door…but first…tomorrow (Wednesday 9-9-15) talk about the red and white quilts now on view at the Corvallis Art Center, noon, 700 Madison, Corvallis… But I don’t like speaking in public very much, so naturally Thursday I’ll be giving a demonstration of hand-quilting at the Studios-at-the-Mill, hands-on […]
Carolyn took the last load out of the dryer yesterday… and we packed up, taking only a little bit of time to reflect on what happened here after we walked into a cavernous unlit space on August 24… We brought art supplies, ironing boards, sewing machines, mannequins, tables and chairs and “set up shop”. We […]
We’re still ironing, still drawing, doing a bit of mending…talking a lot about housework, sewing, raising families as artistic expression…a great deal of reexamination of the lives of mothers by almost all our visitors…more about that when we sum up. Sunday will be a day of rest and relaxation…Monday we’ll be back on duty representing […]
On The Way 