In April my long time friend Carolyn drove from California north to Playa retreat in Summerlake, Oregon. I drove south to same from Salem and we spent five wonderful days, talking, laughing, working in the studio there. It was quiet…only two other people there and we rarely saw them. It was beautiful. Birdsong all day. […]
My friend Christine is an artist, a long-time teacher, a good listener. A friend. We’ve been drawing together for years, over lunch at hers or mine. We know a lot of each other’s stories, the same stuff makes us laugh…she’s a gem. The foundation isn’t that though, it’s drawing. We both have the habit of […]
Eunice Parsons. Artist, teacher, mentor, mother, friend, neighbor, scrabble whiz. Artist. Eunice died last year at 108, ready to go. Monday at Mark Humpal’s gallery, formerly the 12×16 Gallery, friends, students, family, neighbors gathered to talk about her out loud to each other for one last time. Those comments, those images, aren’t on this page […]
Roger loved his 1992 Volvo. We bought it used in 1997, and he was not in favor, but our other much older Volvo needed retirement. He quickly fell madly in love with this car and that lasted the next 26 years (he was loyal and steadfast, never tumbling to the joys of a new Toyota or Suburu). For […]
Collector/Donor Bill Rhoades has been finding and donating art work to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem since its inception in 1998. In recent years he has focused (no pun intended) on photographs made by photographers from the Northwest or with a Northwest connection. This late winter/spring (until April 23rd) you have a […]
Hi readers…it’s been two months since my last bulletin, and I’ll have to hustle to post this as October is about to become Hull birthday month, also known at November. I’ve been musing about why I rarely post on this blog anymore…the answer is Instagram. No narrative, just images…but the Snail Blog has provided me […]
As Covid-19 surges once again, cutting us off from ease of viewing and motion, we are particularly grateful for three exhibits in Salem of the work of three very different but talented artists from three generations of art making…all still working. Jon Colburn, at 85 the oldest of three, has been in Salem about 15 […]
I do love the moment in a studio when everything disappears (off to a gallery) and just a blank wall and rubble remains. I’ll soon have an exhibit at Salem on the Edge gallery, 156 Liberty NE, and the opening is Friday June 4…Friday Artwalk. (R and I will be down there from 5:30 to […]
You only have until May 15th to go to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see “Cayla Skillin-Braucle: Locating”…work by Willamette faculty member Cayla Skillin-Brauchle on view in conjunction with an exhibit of senior graduating art students. Skillin-Brauchle teaches drawing, installation art, social practice, and performance art in the Willamette University Art Department. This […]
I’ve always had a studio in my adult life, and have come to appreciate the “solitary apart-ness” of such a place. Visitors may come in (or they could before Covid-19), of course…and are welcomed…BUT…the space is my space, arranged the way I want it, where I can work for hours, sit and stare, think. A […]
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