In April my long time friend Carolyn drove from California north to Playa retreat in Summerlake, Oregon. I drove south to same from Salem and we spent five wonderful days, talking, laughing, working in the studio there. It was quiet…only two other people there and we rarely saw them. It was beautiful. Birdsong all day. […]
Yesterday I found this box in the studio…while searching for something else. I’d forgotten about this series of collages I made sometime in the last decade…using old photos and other bits and bobs. I called them “Notes to Myself” and I still understand what I was telling me and they delighted me, as old work […]
As I try and shake off winter, a quick trip to California was just the thing. On Saturday, March 8th, a show opening at the Partners’ Gallery in Mendocino featured my work and the work of Sacramento collage artist Lisa Culjis. Lisa (on the left) was invited by Partners member Miriam Davis, while I was […]
My friend Christine is an artist, a long-time teacher, a good listener. A friend. We’ve been drawing together for years, over lunch at hers or mine. We know a lot of each other’s stories, the same stuff makes us laugh…she’s a gem. The foundation isn’t that though, it’s drawing. We both have the habit of […]
Eunice Parsons. Artist, teacher, mentor, mother, friend, neighbor, scrabble whiz. Artist. Eunice died last year at 108, ready to go. Monday at Mark Humpal’s gallery, formerly the 12×16 Gallery, friends, students, family, neighbors gathered to talk about her out loud to each other for one last time. Those comments, those images, aren’t on this page […]
A few years ago I bought some cards from MOMA. I ordered a box of cards by the artist Louise Bourgeois called “What is the Shape of this Problem?” But when the cards arrived, there were two boxes of 18 instead of one. I wasn’t sure I knew that many people who would “get” the […]
Collector/Donor Bill Rhoades has been finding and donating art work to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem since its inception in 1998. In recent years he has focused (no pun intended) on photographs made by photographers from the Northwest or with a Northwest connection. This late winter/spring (until April 23rd) you have a […]
Hi readers…it’s been two months since my last bulletin, and I’ll have to hustle to post this as October is about to become Hull birthday month, also known at November. I’ve been musing about why I rarely post on this blog anymore…the answer is Instagram. No narrative, just images…but the Snail Blog has provided me […]
As Covid-19 surges once again, cutting us off from ease of viewing and motion, we are particularly grateful for three exhibits in Salem of the work of three very different but talented artists from three generations of art making…all still working. Jon Colburn, at 85 the oldest of three, has been in Salem about 15 […]
I do love the moment in a studio when everything disappears (off to a gallery) and just a blank wall and rubble remains. I’ll soon have an exhibit at Salem on the Edge gallery, 156 Liberty NE, and the opening is Friday June 4…Friday Artwalk. (R and I will be down there from 5:30 to […]
On The Way 