Art-filled Weekend!

This past weekend was wonderfully filled with art and friends, both old and new!  On Friday night, we went to the opening of Small and Wonderful at The Hammond Harkins in Bexley, OH.. Here is my wall of small and wonderful!

The show hangs through January 6th!

And On Sunday evening we attended an artist's reception for the 130 artists who had work selected to hang at the Hilton Downtown Columbus Hotel.  It was a lovely dinner reception where we saw old friends and met many new ones as well!
The project was to decorate the hotel using all mid-Ohio artists and it looked amazing!  They did a fabulous job and I'm very proud to be a part of it!   Click here to see a cool video on it! 

Some of the artists gathering for a photo on the stairs

Now I'm happily back in the studio working on a Christmas commission for the Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC and some small ornament paintings for Hammond Harkins Gallery in Bexley.  

Rome, The Hilton, and more

Last week I returned from an amazing trip to Rome, Italy, and am now trying to catching up on things... like blogging!  My oldest daughter gifted me with the trip for Christmas and she and I had the best time!  We walked a marathon and saw SO much art and history and ate SO much good food!  A bit surreal!!  This week has been back to reality in Ohio, but with temperatures in the mid 70's in March, it is a bit surreal here as well!  I will take it!  I am finishing up a commission for the Hilton Hotel in Columbus.. I was so thrilled to have been chosen to participate in this project!  I have also been busy on some new work to take to The Wells Gallery in Charleston the first week in April!  I will be part of a three person show there with two artists whose work I very much admire- Mark Bailey and Curt Butler. 

The Game (Hilton commission)

Cherry Coke

 

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