It's official! I'm addicted to painting!

What a crazy, busy, blessed few months it's been!  It feels like I have painted day and night for months.  I delivered the paintings to the Brandt-Roberts Gallery in Columbus yesterday and that was the last of my shows for now!  On Wednesday my husband and I headed to NYC to move our oldest into her first real apartment, then back late Thursday evening and to the opening Friday night!  So the plan was to take today and tomorrow off and get caught up on some things that I have let go for the last few months.  But all I wanted do was hang around the studio.. so I cleaned and straightened.. and then started another painting.  I am an addict.. but painting makes me happy and I am excited to keep painting and learning!
I will post paintings from the show later this week!

Reinterpreting the Familiar Show at Brandt-Roberts Gallery with Scott Goss



Getting ready for the opening of 'Reinterpreting the Familiar" with Scott Goss at Brandt-Roberts Galleries in Columbus, OH!  Hope to see you there!

Realism Show at Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta, GA

A picture of my paintings hanging at Mason Murer in Atlanta on opening night!  I really wish I could have been there, but glad we got to see the gallery and meet Mark before the show.  A great space and very nice people!!

For More photos from the show, Click here

Wired Artists Show William Jessup University Library

The Wired Artists Show at William Jessup University Library opened last night!  I hope all went well.. I wish I could have been there!  For more images of the show click here
Have a great weekend!



Hanging work



Postcard for 'WiredArtists'

Thanks to Frank Ordaz for all his hard work in making this show happen!

Wired Artists Show at William Jessup University Library, Rocklin, CA

A few weeks ago I was thrilled to receive a phone call from an artist whose work I had seen online and very much admired.  Frank Ordaz was calling to invite me to a show about artists who have met and interacted via the Internet and social media!  It was such a great idea that I couldn't say no!  I sent two 16" x 20" paintings.  The show is being held at William Jessup University Library 333 Sunset Blvd. Rocklin, CA 95765.  The opening of the show will be April 15th from 5:30 to 7 pm. It runs until May 12 .  The artists' blogs and or Facebook sites will be featured in the show. There will be laptops available so that show viewers can log on to their sites.  How cool is that??  And look at the line up of artists!
Stephen Magsig*Chris Hopkins*Mick McGinty *Denny Holland*Rob Carey*Armand Cabrerra*Debra Pero*Don Hatfield*Janice Skivington*Marc Hanson*Thomas Fluharty*Terry Miura*Michael Dudash*Frank Ordaz*Regis Pattenari*Robert Lemler

Yin and Yang
16" x 20"





Turning a Corner
16" x 20"

Home from Charleston and back to painting!

Phew!  I am finally getting caught up from our whirlwind trip to the south and to Charleston for the opening of Nostalgia at The Wells Gallery!  It was a wonderful trip and we were totally taken in by the city, the art  and the people!  Thanks so much to all who came out, I enjoyed meeting and talking with you all!


Ready for the opening at The Wells Gallery



We also stopped at Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta, GA and delivered paintings for The Realism Show that will open there this Friday!  If you live near Atlanta, it would be great show to see!  We sure wish we could be there!

Now I am back to painting for the next month in preparation for Reinterpreting the Familiar, a two person show with glass artist Scott Goss at the Brandt-Roberts Gallery in Columbus, OH.

Daily Paint Works Challenge -Auction for Japanese Red Cross

I have been heartbroken over the recent events in Japan, but felt fairly helpless about it.  The Daily Paintworks crew has given all artists an opportunity to do something to help!  I have donated a painting, Bread and Water, to be auctioned off with all proceeds to be donated to the Japanese Red Cross.  There are currently 230 works of art for auction, with more being added constantly.  So far, the bids have amounted to over $9000 and growing!  I'm thrilled to be able to do something to help..  Please click here to go to the auction page! to see the art and place your bid!



Bread and Water
8" x 10"




 



Show at The Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC

Keli at the Wells Gallery did such a great job of designing the postcard invites for the show in Charleston!  And we are so excited to get down there!  If any of you are in the Charleston area on Friday, April 1, I'd love to meet you! 

The Mason Murer Gallery Realism Juried Show

I am so thrilled to  have been invited to show at The Mason Murer Fine Arts Gallery in Atlanta, GA for their Realism Juried Show!  The show includes some of my favorite contemporary artists and I am so excited not only to be showing beside them, but to be seeing their work in person! 
Here is one of the paintings I am taking! 
"Big Brother" 48" x 60"

April 8th - 7pm to 10pm


Realism juried show with works by:
Luke Allsbrook*Thomas Boone*Bruce Brainard*Bruce Braithwaite*Paul Cadden*Marc Chatov*M. Collier*C Dawn Davis*Julyan Davis*William Entrekin*Holly Farrell*Jelaine Faunce*Teresa Fischer*Jeff Hayes*Neil Hollingsworth*Karen Hollingsworth*Mike Kasper *Jill McGannon*Patrick McGannon*Michael Naples*Joe Remillard*Liana Repass*Alvin Richard*Edward Rice*Abby Ryan*Suzy Schultz*Sally Tharp*James McLaughlin Way*Gail Wegodsky
and works from Walter Norman, Latrice Cooper, Pedro Fuertes

New York City

I am headed to New York City today, which happens to be the subject of my painting for the "Wanderlust" show at The Wells Gallery in Charleston next month!  I am really looking forward to seeing my daughter and her boyfriend,Cat and Nick, my friends, Craig and Barry, and lots of great art!!  I know I will come home charged up and ready to paint!  Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Blossom-Art of Flowers Juror's Choice Award!

I found out this week that my painting, "Change of Seasons" was awarded a juror's choice award in Naples, FL.  I'm so thrilled!  The show be in Naples until April 10, and then tour the US. 

February 5 - April 10, 2011 Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

 April 30 - June 26, 2011 Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ

July 12 - October 16, 2011 R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA

November 5 - December 31, 2011 Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL
Jan. 18 - Feb. 29, 2012 Art Center Manatee, Bradenton, FL

March 19 - May 20, 2012 Greenacres Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
June 10 – July 22, 2012 Museum of the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur, TX

We will get to see the show when it comes to Cincinnati next March.

My friends Mary and Nichole were able to attend the opening and sent me this photo.  I wish I could have been there with them!!

I really AM working!

I know I know.. I am already breaking my New Year's resolution to blog more often!  I'm sorry!  I am painting like crazy for three upcoming shows!  The first is a group show at The Wells Gallery titled "Wanderlust" for the March 4th art walk in Charleston, SC.  I have chosen to paint images from a trip to NYC to visit my oldest child, Cat.  And then for the art walk in April (April 1st), I am so thrilled to be having my premier show at The Wells Gallery  along with three glass artists.  LOTS of shiny surfaces and glass-  Can't wait to see it all together!   And finally, in May, I will be having a show at the Brandt-Roberts Gallery in Columbus, OH, with the opening on May 5!  PHEW!   I have several new paintings that I am anxious to share but will wait until after the shows open.  In the meantime, I will show a recent landscape I painted, showing the view out our front door one morning.  I am trying find beauty in this long, cold winter we are having!  Definitely ready for spring!!



Sunrise 18" x 24"



Ball Mason jar paintings, 'Bound' and 'Cocoon'

I have painted a couple more pieces from my new series.  I really love the challenge of trying to capture all the overlapping transparencies while trying to simplify what I can so as not to over paint it.
The rest of the week will be spent working on a commissioned painting of marbles.

Bound
24" x 48" 

Cocoon
48" x 60"

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all!  This year's resolution is to be far better at posting on my blog!!  I have been especially negligent these last few months!!  The problem comes when all I want to do is paint.. but I do realize that I need to take time to keep my blog and website current.  So my resolution this year is to post at LEAST once a week... (also to lose weight, exercise more, not waste time.. etc)
I had taken a few small paintings to the Brandt Roberts Gallery in Columbus and have heard that they, along with "Bottlenecked" have found new homes so I took a just completed painting down on Tuesday called "On Edge"  24 x 48"



I'm also attaching an image of a new series Ive started.. this one is titled Awakening 48" x 60" more on this series soon!!

The Holiday Season in now upon us...

The Holiday Season in now upon us.....And with it comes all the hectics chaos!  But I am happy to say that it's all good craziness in my world!  Not that I have any of my holiday shopping done... but I have gotten some great news this week!

I am honored to have received 1st prize for guest artist in the Fall 2010 online Exhibition at the Perez Fine Art Galleries for my painting titled, 'Gettin' Steamed'.

And also this week, I found out that my entry into the Susan Kathleen Black foundation Art of The Blossom II has been accepted!  This show will start at the Naples Museum of Art and travel to several museums throughout the spring and summer.  I feel so honored to have my painting, 'Change of Season', accepted!  

And last, but not least, I have been painting several pieces for the small works show at the Brandt-Roberts Gallery in Columbus, OH this December.  I promise to post some later this week!



Lifesavers painting done!

This is the Lifesaver painting on which I have been working... finally done!  My husband really likes this one so I think it might hang in his office for a while.  I have to say, it's so nice to be able to hang my paintings somewhere instead of having them stack up in my studio!  There are a couple paintings that I think I might have a hard time getting back if I asked. :)  It makes me happy that they like them!

Lifesavers
36" x 60"

"The Gangs all Here" and "Three of Us" ready to be shipped to Charleston, SC!





I finished my two Mason jar paintings and readied them to be shipped to the Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC last week. And now this week I'm back in the studio working on a large Lifesaver painting!  I will post pics soon!



 

The Gangs All Here
36" x 48"

Three of Us
48" x 36"





 

 



Catching up.. Jadite 2 and The Rebel

I was in Vegas last week with my husband for a business trip.. and this week am getting ready and decorating for Halloween but wanted to post a couple of paintings that I have recently completed.. I really loved painting the jadite bowls.. but am taking a break from them and have started two smaller mason jar paintings that I hope to have done by the end of the week!  And... speaking of Jadite bowls.. I am so happy to hear from the Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento that one of my paintings (That's Life) in the still life show there has sold.  Thanks to Elliott, Michelle, and Cynthia for the beautiful show you have put together!  Please take a minute to follow the link.. there are some amazing artists and wonderful works in the show!


Jadite 2 48" x 60"





The Rebel 48" x 48"



Two Openings at once!

"White rabbit, white rabbit"!  My mom has always said that first thing on the first day of every month for luck.. and today there are two events upon which I'd like to bestow that luck!  The first is the opening of the Invitational Still Life Group Show at the Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento, CA.  There are some wonderful artists in the group and I am honored to have been invited to participate!   Below are my contributions to the show...

That's Life 48" x 48"

Red Marble 24" x 24"

And the second event is the opening of the new gallery in Columbus, The Brandt Roberts Gallery.  I am looking forward to a long and happy relationship with them!  Good luck to both galleries!
Have a great weekend!

"Shells of our Former Selves" and "Return for Deposit" paintings are headed south!

I'm so thrilled to hear that the Wells Gallery has sold "Up Front and Slightly Off Center" and has asked for more work. My friends Vicky and Dave, who were here visiting their new grandchild, were kind enough to take these paintings home to South Carolina with them, to be delivered to the Well Gallery this week! I will miss them and am wishing them safe travels!

Return for Deposit 16" x 20"

Shells of Our Former Selves 24" x 48"

"That's Life!" new bowl of cherries painting

Now that the kids are back in school things are starting to settling into routine, albeit with all three in fall sports, a slightly hectic one. I was able to finish a new painting and have started on another along the same lines. A few weeks ago cherries came into season, and I bought them several times , each time thinking that I love the color and feeling like I wanted to paint them, but I have seen them painted so much and by very talented artists that I worried about duplicating or falling short of their talent. I tried to come up with a way to make them my own, so I put them into one of my jadite bowls and blew the whole thing up to 48" x 48". Titled, "That's Life", this painting is headed to the Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento, CA.

It's been too long! New paintings, "Bouncing Balls" and "Life"

Sorry.. again.. for the lack of posts here! I promise I have been painting! Summer is a crazy time, but school starts tomorrow for the kids and I will have a bit more of a schedule, albeit a hectic one! I'm thrilled to tell you that I have had a painting, Michael's Marble, accepted into the National Art Encounter 2010 in Naples, FL! I won't be able to go to the opening, but I will be well represented by my great friends, Mary and Jon!

Also this past week I had my first official gallery visit by a new gallery that will be representing me. The Brandt Roberts Gallery will be opening on Oct 1, on High St. in Columbus with the grand opening on Oct. 29! We had a great time and I am looking forward to a long and successful relationship with them.

I am posting a painting that I sent to the Wells Gallery last week.. (along with "Meeting of the Minds" and "Up Front".)

Titled, "Bouncing Balls"..
36" x 60"

Two new paintings! Gettin' Steamed and Meeting of the Minds

I've been keeping very busy here.. getting back on track after the big move! I think I have figured out where most things go in the studio and am trying to get organized.. (as organized as I can be... my skills leave a bit to be desired) Just today I received my new shipment of art panels and I will be painting again through the weekend!
I am posting two larger scale paintings of the mason jars.. (I have to sneak one in here and there between the smaller still life paintings for the show in Oct.) These paintings are very different from one another but I like them both. Gettin' Steamed is really bold and strong and Meeting of the Minds is very soft and quiet.. I really want to keep Meeting of the Minds for above the bed but I paint to tell a story and I already know it so I will share it with others.
Have a great weekend!

Gettin' Steamed 40" x 50"


Meeting of the Minds 36" x 60"

Studio and Last Man Standing pics

Better late than never!! Here are two pics of the new studio... one from the inside out and the other from the outside in! I love it!! I am still settling in but painting every day too!

I am also posting a painting that I finished last month and never got to post.. with all the moving and chaos. Title "Last Man Standing" (40" x 50"), it is a painting of stacking wooden dolls/toys, these from the 50's, that are called Bill Dings... get it? Buildings?? Even though I never had them as a child, I love them and play with these guys all the time in the studio. They are still made today, but now they look more like clowns and are kinda creepy. I like the round old goofy guys like these!

Have a great weekend!