Here’s a drawing I made this week at the Annex at Salem Art Associations Bush Barn Art Center, where I was Artist in Residence for the last three weeks. My residency was to continue until March 31st but with “social distancing” now in play, and being in the at-risk age group, I packed up today… […]
We headed north today to drop off a piece of mine as donation to the silent auction at Disjecta (November 16th)… and to see the current Biennial on view at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (8371 N. Interstate). From 1949 to 2010 the Biennial was at the Portland Art Museum, but more recently has been on […]
It absolutely is true…50 years ago on September 20, 1969, Roger Hull and Bonnie Decker got married in Wilmette, Illinois… and I can’t find the wedding pictures anywhere…so I started looking at other photos of us through the years. We’ve always had fun. We have had somber and sad moments like all lives have, but […]
There is a week between delivering my work to the Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and my actually seeing the exhibit up on the walls. A week for the curator, Sarah Cuevas, to arrange, decide, place. I’ll see the exhibit (“Little Me”) in place next Monday when the curtain goes up […]
Beginning May 13th and running until July 19th, I will have a solo exhibition of paintings (plus two quilts) at the Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University in Newberg. Always anecdotal, my work of the last two years has been defined by memory and image. All the ingredients of the work I’ve been making all […]
In this weird moment, this non-celebratory 2020 moment, I think I’ll post this again for the 11th time, because this year, more than ever, I like remembering this little girl. “Memory as Myth”…the title of my exhibit at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art this summer, if such a thing is possible…is part of this […]
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 […]
Some years, around my birthday, I’m cut free from my moorings…just floating. The new year direction hasn’t kicked in…it isn’t orderly yet, anything could happen. So I review the messages… Clean the studio… review the day: look at completed work: start something new… on line shopping?? (new lights) visit friends… (Kay Worthington’s “anatomy of an […]
I published this on my birthday in 2009, but I still think it tells my story so let’s go again!! Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to go. But today I’m looking back. (I tried to cut my own bangs–oops.) For a few years […]
On May 1, 2017, Elizabeth Bauman and I had a pink gesso party… We wanted to do a collaborative thing…separate but equal…so we mixed up a big vat of pink gesso and each gessoed six big pieces of paper. we chose a spot high on the wall in the workroom at our studio (Studios at […]
On The Way 