Dan slipped off the island this week and won’t be coming back. All of us Islanders are bereft, and others in the greater world too. Artist, poet, maker, gatherer, friend. Dan lived his life here. He left a few times but always came back, even though…it had its difficulties… His presence here made Salem an […]
You still have 10 days to go see Seattle painter Kyle Cook’s show (https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2019/01/14/events-excavations-constructions/) at the Helzer Gallery at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus, gallery hours 9-5:30 M-F…up until February 22, 2019. The paintings are handsome with a map-like quality which hovers between landscape and abstraction. Bits of the road are embedded in the […]
Once a month on the second Saturday a group of people from around town gather someplace to draw for an hour together. It becomes an examination of visual resources in our community and a sort of camaraderie of people who like to draw…people who don’t necessarily know each other in daily life. The youngest is […]
Today was first Thursday, which is good news for you guys. It means you have a whole month to get to the Russo Lee Gallery at 21st and Johnson NW in Portland to see new paintings by Lucinda Parker, who currently has a newly opened retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem […]
We dropped in to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art today to see the progress on the installation of the exhibition of Lucinda Parker’s paintings. R’s cousin Lisa was visiting overnight and though she has her copy of R’s book on the work of painter Lucinda Parker, she won’t be able to be at the […]
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 […]
I might have mentioned we have a new granddaughter coming soon! Sidney turns 5 this Friday and within a couple of weeks will be joined by his sister Vivien Grace. Sidney and his Mom came down to Salem for lunch Saturday which turned out to be the perfect moment to turn over the quilts… Two […]
Actually we probably don’t have Fall Trip #2 planned, but it WAS the first sunny and bright week of Fall, so we took off for a short adventure with Jon and Irene to Astoria. We made a few stops along the way including the Jacobsen Salt works on Netarts Bay… where we did a little […]
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 […]
Only 7 of the 10 of us could go this year for the Salem Art Group retreat…4 days off the grid in a beautiful place. Katy’s family has owned this cabin on the Metolius River for 40 years, but only the cabin…the land is owned by the Forest Service and is pretty strictly regulated (no […]
