The photographer Barbara Rowland was such a talented presence in our art community. I met her at the first Project Space, some years ago. She walked around and around Salem taking photos, was never without a camera. Because she was a wily photographer she was also good at avoiding being photographed herself…but I did get […]
Well if you blinked this week you’ve almost missed it…Mary Lou Zeek’s current POP-UP gallery show, “BLINK”, which is a nice show…four rooms of painting, sculpture, work on paper…a wide variety of artists represented…a handsome show. I went to the artists’ reception and of course it was too crowded and filled with friends for very […]
We were out and about today and here’s what we saw…we drove by the storefront where Mary Lou Zeek’s new “pop-up” show BLINK opens on February 23 (in between Magoo’s and the OLCC store on SE Commercial Street). The gala is Tuesday, February 24 from 5-7 and should be fun. She has a new idea […]
Drawing is one of my favorite activities, and this weekend in Salem there were some fun opportunities, if you like to draw with a group…and sometimes I do. (My brother How turned me on to the Urban Sketchers blog a few years ago…the tag line is “seeing the world one drawing at a time”.) Saturday […]
Love from near, love from far, a sunny day…all good! XXOO
The annual Wild Women show opened at the River Gallery last night with Sloy’s paintings shining out like beacons… this one is called “opposite dimples” and there’s a nice article about the making of this painting in the current Salem Weekly. One advantage of Sloy’s paintings is they are BIG in a room of small […]
I’ve used the headline “Art All Day” before, and it seems to refer to a day like Thursday…a day filled up from morning to night with a wide variety of art work to consider, which for people like us is about the best possible day. We headed to Portland early and the first stop was […]
In the late fall my long-time friend Nan moved to Portland and took her studio with her. Today I took a nap-time break on Sidney Day (Monday, the day when R & I routinely care for our adorable grandson) and dropped in to her new Portland studio. Her business is called Souvenir Suitcase… …and here’s […]
I recently read an article that said to have a happy life you need to do something EVERYDAY that makes you happy. If you love to draw that’s so easy…drawing books and pens fit nicely into a purse…insurance against any “slow” moment…all good. …and SOME days are really happy days because drawing and coffee join […]
The first 40 pages of the initial draft are written for the monograph Roger Hull is writing about painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983). Bunce was active in the art life of Portland, Oregon, for some 50 years, spending 6 years during that time in New York City. He was a student at the Art Student’s League […]
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