January at last. New Year, new thoughts, new work. December often feels like a month of looking back and summing up but…January is a whole different deal. Of course it also means rain… and our year/month began at the beach watching the bay… reading by the fire… appreciating the sunny days of that first week… […]
My friend Rex (who prefers to remain AnonyMOuS) told me he was trying to lower his blood pressure by writing a poem with his opposing hand (in his case his right) while taking his BP on his left. Rex often does things like this…he’s a trickster of sorts. Anyway I got thinking about drawing with […]
August and December are months when, for me anyway, not much art gets made because of family, gatherings, celebrations, weather…and so on. And speaking of weather….we’re having a heat wave…last week three days in triple digits…so Tuesday when we left town it was already 99 but, blissfully, we arrived at the beach and it was […]
A loyal reader recently wrote and said she would enjoy seeing where Roger Hull writes his many monographs about regional art and artists. As he is currently using both offices (the winter office and the summer office) I thought I might visit. (Also, I have noted that when I write about Roger or quilts, my […]
After the quilters left, I headed for coffee and a moment to regroup… I was off to Camp Sherman on the Metolius River where Katy and family have a cabin. For the last few years our Salem Art Group (SAG) has gone over to Camp Sherman annually to gather, make art, talk about making art, […]
The other morning I was sitting with a group of friends, sewing, and the talk was of memory and aging (and politics, but that’s another whole ball of wax…) and this morning I was tidying the bedroom and walked by this photo, as I do daily, but was drawn in today. As I gazed at […]
I don’t think I’ve mentioned the Snail Blog lately, a postcard-a-day that arrives from our friend Ellen in Vermont…(card number 2401 arrived yesterday) This is such a delightful peek into a parallel universe, and Vermont is certainly that…a different life and like any good serial we have come to know the cast of characters…N.N., John […]
The first week of January. Snow. In an effort to get the year started right, I’ve been in one studio or another of mine every day. In both cases I entered into long reveries about studios and how lucky we are who have them…alternate realities really. They don’t have to be clean and tidy (though […]
yellow…caution… Okay, it wasn’t my favorite week…I’m seeking a way to think about this world, not with much success, and a card arrived that sort of expressed my basic feeling about everything… …a week in which I allowed my “condition” to let me burrow into things that give me comfort… But a week in which […]
For longer than 40 years Roger Hull has been thinking about and writing about art made here in the Pacific Northwest, most especially in Oregon. Since the inception of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 1998 he has been curating exhibits of regional work and writing monographs about artists. This has resulted in a […]
On The Way 