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 […]
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 […]
95 degrees here today friends. Yikes. We picked up Sidney at day camp and headed to the Singer Hill Cafe for lunch where Sidney and I did some “Maze” drawings…me following him… and after lunch a quick story (the book available was called “Bad Habits” which Sidney pronounced “enjoyable”… before heading across the street where […]
August already??? What about all the summer stuff I was going to do and all the posts I was going to write… In deciding I write about Portland artists too much, we went (in July) to see DE May’s show at PDX Gallery and across the street to see Natalie Laswell’s piece at Blackfish Gallery…both […]
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 […]
In cleaning one closet out this weekend and throwing away lots, taking a box to Goodwill, some things to file…I found a stack of cards that a local funeral parlor (now the site of a Starbuck’s) made up in the 1950’s and handed out. They are all photos of Salem from the early 1900’s and […]
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 […]
Until December 2nd you have a chance to see Lucinda Parker’s new paintings at the Russo Lee Gallery (805 NW 21st Street in Portland)…most done in the last three months. The show is entitled “Knowledge is Not Our Enemy” which sounds possibly political, but isn’t. It’s about mountains…most specifically our own MT. Hood. This morning […]
R, Sidney and I have a lot of “traditions” we’ve established in the last three years and one of those is “Conker Park” in the fall. It involves loading the top of a riding toy in the park with conkers and then making them fly off… we even went in late summer, even though we […]
Before we leave Temple Square and the elms let me show you this one…John Constable, English, “Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree,” oil, 1821….the fun of a resident art historian is that while one is in a reverie about the elms of one’s childhood, R is immediately struck with the similarity of the […]
