I’ve been a fan of two Oregon artists for a few years, and have written about them both on this blog here, here, and here…only recently discovering they are married. In the wake of the recent blog post on Julie Green’s show at Upfor Gallery, R and I were invited for a studio visit. We […]
Steve is a retired shipping magnate (wink) and when we were visiting his wife, quilter Mary Keasler last week, we got an invite to the “Man Mall”…Steve’s domain. Steve is a metal man, a motor man, a fixer and rescuer…a volunteer fireman, a lover of old stuff. As I prowled around it began to occur […]
I’m in love with Sue-Del’s Akebana cherry tree, and we’d set Monday as the day I might come out and take a look. She and John planted it when it was a “whip” no bigger than her finger. Now it sits majestically with it’s columns (designed by architect friend Bill Lindburg) and although the buds […]
On Sunday I rode along when R took the galleys for the book up to Henk for “color correction”… I like going to Henk’s warm and textural house, filled with art and flowers (always still-life-worthy flowers)… But before they jumped into the manuscript we went out to the studio to see the paintings he has […]
Jonathan’s day job is as collections curator at the HFMA, but in his REAL life he’s an artist. We did a studio visit to see the rest of the oregano series (one currently on view in the Mayor’s Invitational) and see the new work, both two and three dimensional. Jonathan has converted the garage into […]
Martha Curry has been working as an interior designer since 1980. Today I sat in her beautiful and serene house, and she talked about the design process, her own strengths…one of which is her amazing eye (“that’s what I have to sell–my eye”), her methods of working with clients. Her well-edited home interior makes me […]
Nancy Lindburg is a remarkable person. In her public career at the Salem Art Association and the Oregon Arts Commission, she worked tirelessly to promote the notion of regional arts in a region that sometimes undervalues its own. She saw to it that many many artists had a chance to be included in the “process” […]
Sunday was another sunny day and we headed north across the Golden Gate to Fort Bragg (about 10 miles north of Mendocino). They call it the “Lost Coast” for reasons I don’t know but it IS a hike–four hours from any airport etc. It rained and poured the day I was there so I have […]
Roger Hull has conducted a creative academic life at Willamette University for 40 years, arriving from Chicago in 1970. For 34 of those years he’s held forth in the building at the corner of State and Winter streets. This spring he’s closing down shop in the art building, and beginning to shift his thinking to […]
Had coffee with Elizabeth and the adorable Alex the other morning. It caused me to remember trying to make art on top of the washing machine, and other adventures of young motherhood. I’ve known Elizabeth since before she was born so we go way back. She is making nice paintings of a small scale and […]
