Luncheon today was at our house…a reunion of sorts. Friend and former student Kent Lew came for a catch up visit while in Portland at a conference…far from his current home in the Berkshires. Kent graduated in 1985 and we’ve only seen him once since then. He was a talented artist, a good student, and […]
Tag: painting
Harry Widman at the Sovereign Collection….
Michael Parsons has taken over the Sovereign Collection Gallery (716 SW Madison, Portland), and is showing a nice selection of paintings, collages and assemblages by Portland artist Harry Widman. On Saturday Roger Hull, Widman’s biographer, and Bob Shotola (Harry’s long-time friend) were at the Gallery with Harry and quite a crowd of others to have […]
Works in Progress….
This weekend I got OUT of the bathroom… and INTO the studio… where, after looking at an old painting painted in memory of the lovely William Peyron, dishwasher at the Arbor Cafe for 6 years, reader, person of great good humor (sometimes old paintings are better than photographs for conjuring people up…this is called “I […]
Room With a View
Saturday we headed north up the coast… to visit April and Nathan in their newish beach house (they got it last July). It has an amazing amazing view and April has set up her easel in the living room and is painting there as many days as she can be away from Salem… Not only […]
Living the Creative Life: Leonard Ruder
Portland painter Leonard Ruder died a few years ago after a long and productive life as a painter. He was born in 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, and studied art at The Cranbrook Academy there. He came west in the 1950’s with his artist friend Hank Kowert to study more, to paint, and to begin his […]
On The Way 