Our house is old for this part of the world…1849. It’s been moved twice, and the current fir floors probably date from the first move in 1893. Aaron and Boyd from Bear Ridge Designs didn’t think they’d ever been refinished. They were not worn to a lovely patina, they were just worn. It was time, […]
Two exhibits open this weekend at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. We got to preview the fantastic George Rodriguez show during installation the other day and really…this shouldn’t be missed. The scale is huge and the work is gorgeous… Here are a few of the “Georges” Rodriguez was born in El Paso of immigrant […]
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 […]
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 […]
Though the light is returning daily, it is still January. A tour of the garden yesterday was surprising…
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 […]
A memorably unpleasant day today, during which they sky provided an equally memorable meditation…
The Court Chemeketa Residential Historic District (CCRHD) is one great neighborhood. It’s close to downtown, to Willamette University, to the State Capitol and campus, walk-able and tree lined…but best of all it’s just a neighborhood of exceptional people and staunch GARDENERS. Last week in the middle of a beautiful but scarily warm and sunny fall […]
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 […]
