The Annex studio is in the middle of a terrific park. Part of my time there involves letting the setting infiltrate my thinking. This week, after some warm weather, everything is just POPPING! Here’s the scene right outside my patio door: and a closer view reveals bleeding heart: these cool little bamboo things: One of […]
Category: Art work
First Thursday…
Up to Portland for a street car ride from the south waterfront to the Pearl, dinner at Silk and then over to Blackfish Gallery for the Paul Missal/Nancy Lindburg/Bill Owen show. It has now been officially confirmed…if I’m schmoozing I can’t take good pictures. But, here you go. The show was mostly Paul and featured […]
Clay Ball!!
Last night was the big fund-raising “Clay Ball” for Salem Art Association. In these hard times for non-profits it was more important than ever for this community to come out to support the arts…and the place was packed. We arrived a little late to the silent auction area just in time to see the end […]
Friday report from the Annex…
The other day I found the plug for this string of lights which adds a jaunty air to the annex studio After a month the studio is beginning to feel like my own, especially Friday when Deb and her volunteers arrived to get the art work for the big fund-raising auction THE CLAY BALL. Everything […]
April Waters
Last night was the opening of a show of large portraits of contemporary women leaders painted by Salem artist April Waters. She’s been working on the paintings since 2006 when she began with a portrait of activist Cindy Sheehan after visiting Sheehan’s Texas encampment. Each portrait is over six feet high and they are quite […]
The Annex, week 2, and a Valentine…
A busy week in the new studio–though not as much time as I would have liked. While I have this nice space I wish for all the details of daily life to go away for a few months but, alas, groceries, errands, the gym, etc.. still claim time. This week too the auditors were using […]
Seminar at Corrie’s
This morning I went to Corrie Loomis-Dietz’s studio for some help with transfer printing for my new set of work. Corrie is the local rep for the excellent Golden Paint co.–the brand of acrylic I use. Corrie is always most willing to share her knowledge about materials and techniques, and her time, which I appreciate. […]
First Day at the Annex…
A sunny Sunday–possibly superbowl Sunday??..and my first day to be in the studio alone. The Annex sits in Bush Park and the views out the window into the park are good I gessoed some paper put “the program” on the board Mostly, though, I sat and contemplated and watched dogs and kids run around and […]
Studio Update…
Got my keys to the new studio today and arrived just as the guys came to move out the old furniture…more tomorrow!!
The Red Quilt…
There’s nothing like settling in on a winter evening in a big comfy chair, pulling a quilt onto your lap and just quilting away for an hour or two. It is possibly one of life’s most calming activities (along with freecell). Just now I’m working on a quilt which combines some elegant Dutch fabric (the […]
On The Way 