Years ago I made a little painting (now in the collection of the Salem Public Library) called “Everything, Everything”…all the thoughts, all the feelings, all the activity of a life. And now in this season of my own life I guess that’s the way I think. The categories are loosening, the sense of the whole […]
It WAS Sidney day but it began quietly on the deck doing my five 1-minute warmup drawings of my breakfast (Hi Katy)… then the dash to Portland to pick-up Sidney from Camp and grab some lunch for us… before heading off to the last swimming lesson with Sam who miraculously has taught this boy to […]
This was the big “Hood to Coast” relay weekend in Oregon, and we did our own version burning far fewer calories than the runners, but still requiring “pluck’ and a certain amount of energy. We headed to Mt. Hood and Timberline Lodge Wednesday to spend the night and be in place for Thursday…the second annual […]
The other evening we went to the penultimate event at the High Street Gallery. The last evening of the current exhibit, and of the Gallery, is this coming Saturday, June 16th…put it on your calendar and head over there to see a good exhibit and to say goodbye to the gallery. Michael Hernandez opened the […]
If, like me, you missed Rob Bibler’s gallery talk today at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, you have another chance as he’ll be in the gallery talking about his beautiful work on Tuesday June 19, 2018, at 12:30. The exhibit of his work on paper, 1974-2017, is on view in the study gallery and […]
As we headed up I5 to Portland for Sidney-Day Thursday the truck traffic was fierce…and they come so close you could touch them… We got a good parking space though… and headed into Upfor where I got a selfie shadow in the Shana Moulton video… and then we popped into PDX Gallery to see the […]
I’ve written a lot about Jon Colburn and visited his studio many times, since his partner is my long-time friend and garden mentor Irene Longaker. The other day R and I were in the PNAA (Pacific Northwest Artist Archive) and archivist Mary McRobinson had a nice painting of Jon’s over her desk, on loan from […]
It’s been four years since the sculptor Robert Hess died and I’ve been thinking about him this week. I thought maybe I’d republish this blog post I wrote at the time of his death because I still appreciate him and miss him, I can still hear his funny, hearty voice, and I like the thought […]
The painter Alden Mason (1919-2013) was becoming real to us as we spoke to his family, friends, colleagues, and former students over the course of a long research weekend recently. We looked at a wide range of his work, many family photos, listened to anecdotes and the narrative began shaping into the whole person. Monday […]
I never knew the Seattle painter Alden Mason (1919-2013). R is writing the biographical essay for a book about the painter funded by the Alden Mason Foundation (http://www.aldenmasonfoundation.org), with other writers discussing various areas of his work (Regina Hackett writing about the Burpee paintings, Rock Hushka writing a forward and appreciation , and Robert Ayres […]
