On January 20th, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. (in the Paulus Lecture Hall) art historian/curator Roger Hull will give a slide talk about the work of the Portland Painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983) as the show opens its two month run at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem. Available on that occasion (and afterward) will […]
Category: Modern Life
The Snail Blog surges into 2017
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 […]
Red and White Quilts
Over the weekend when I was in the “sewing cottage” I got looking at some weird old Red & White blocks I had put up on the design wall… and that reminded me of the terrific catalog of the amazingly beautiful show of red and white quilts at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC in […]
Studio Addict
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 […]
High Street Gallery
The other night some artists met at Marco Polo for dinner before going to check out the new High Street Gallery (700 High Street NE…it’s around behind where Salem Paint used to be). In MY fortune cookie there were THREE fortunes…wowzer… Salem, the Capital City, doesn’t have a gallery scene really…though Salem is home to […]
WINTER!!!
Yep…it has been sort of winter-quiet here…head colds, PT, stuff. Not much shopping this year, but the trees are up… and today…SNOW! The elf drove me out and about… the first camellia was unceremoniously dislodged and here’s how it looked from 12:30 on: but we got home in time for a coffee and a fireside […]
Turning the corner…
We went to the studio before the holiday…(my window is the top right) …up the 17 stairs… into the studio to rehang after the nice paint job by Dayna and Tory…what a gift… …the south wall… the west wall and we did the other two, leaving the work space for a later date and we […]
Pausing…
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 […]
STOPPING…
Red means stop. It’s hard to stop. Mostly we don’t, we soldier on, keep working, keep planning. But sometimes things just grind to a halt. When my father died one of my brothers said “Sometimes things just have to stop…” and that’s the truth. I am in one of those periods of suspended animation, but […]
Good News!
On the whole this is NOT a season of good news, though at last the debates are finished. The other day we noticed that something super-nice is happening downtown though…from the point of view of preservationists like us. The building which housed the S&H green stamp store in the 70’s and 80’s is being restored! […]
On The Way 