Season's Greetings

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The studio is shrouded in clean new snow...about a foot now, but we keep having thaws and freezes. Just want to thank everyone who has visited the studio or one of my exhibits this year. Your interest in my work is one of the reasons I keep painting.

It seems for the past month I've been mostly moving paintings around to and from various exhibits, but I look forward to some serious studio time in January...I have ideas collected in my brain.

My exhibit in Ithaca at Kitschen Sink (two posts below) is on until just after the New Year and the exhibit at NOW (one post below) will hang through January. And I'll be here not far from the woodstove at my Montrose Studio.

This pastel painting, Watrous Corners Barns is available for $475, framed to 20 x 26 in a rustic gold wood frame. You can see it in the window of NOW Hair Studio at 132 Adams Avenue Scranton.

NOW Hair Studio

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I am honored to be the first painter featured at NOW. The exhibit opens on December 5 with a reception 6-9pm during Scranton's First Friday art event.

Fran Kavulich is the owner of NOW....she and her stylists are into color and design and so am I so I think this will be a fun exhibit in a great location for me; 132 Adams Avenue...570-961-8875 for an appointment or info.

Kristie Miller McMahon of Clarks Summit, will be showing her jewelry there, as well. Hope we see you this Friday night...or stop in all month and see my work. It's in the windows and in the back, too.

Family Dinner Exhibit in Ithaca NY

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November 21 through the end of the year my cousin, Liz Tilley, has invited my husband, daughter, her sister & me to exhibit some of our paintings, quilts, clay work, photographs and collage in her gallery;
the Kitschen Sink, 210 Elmira RD. 607-277-4914.

The gala meet-the-artists reception is Friday night, Nov 21, 6-9pm. The exhibit continues through Dec. 31. It is open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas; Mon, Tues & Sat 11am to 6pm, Thursday & Friday 11-9, Sunday 12-6pm.

Liz always has plenty of eclectic art, vintage finds, painted furniture, jewelry & more at Kitschen Sink. Many (and I do mean many!) unique stocking stuffers and presents, even costumes, and you get to meet Liz, who is a delightfully unique member of our family. Please bring yours in.

Two Recent Demos

I have finally finished Front Walk which was painted mostly during the Artists' Open House Weekend on October 13th. Although I fussed and adjusted details quite a bit I think those of you who watched the painting appear in the front studio garden will recognize it as the same painting, but finished. At the end of my demo that day I knew I had some choppiness...too many competing areas in value. Luckily I kept the colors limited to a fairly narrow range because the texture & values were contrasting and bordering on chaotic. By constantly looking at this painting I feel I have worked out it's problems and made a dense and complex garden scene with the warmth of a perfect aurtumn day in my tangled garden.

Last week I was asked to give a demo in front of Hill Country Artists. They are a great audience; asking educated questions and absorbing concepts like sponges. What fun. House with Blue Roof is my finished painting and not much was done to this one after I left the meeting.SOLD

Both will be for sale soon at $400 framed in rustic gold wood frames. If you write to me I will tell you where they are being shown.

My Vacation

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Eight days with my husband driving south to Washington DC, we visited several galleries and the National Museum of Women in the Arts and then to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We went there specifically to see Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities. This exhibition alone was worth the trip. I've been to the Georgia O'Keeffe museum in Sante Fe numerous times as well as most of the major exhibits of her work on the east coast in the last 30 years and I saw several "new-to-me" paintings. The parallels between these two friends working at the same time in different parts of the southwest were surprising. This exhibit continues through January 4, 2009 (and it's free). Also at the museum is Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth which we both liked immensely; images from her series National Champion Trees and wonderful color works of songbirds being held by people - only until Nov 9.

We loved this museum so much we went back the next day. The National Portrait Gallery shares the same building and we spent hours looking at Women of Our Time; 75 Twentieth Century Photographs...included some very enlightening reading - click on link for web exhibition.

We finally tore ourselves away from DC and headed to Chincoteague/ Assateague refuge and National Seashore. That's where I did this small plein air painting, looked at ponies and birds, sketched for hours, read some, sat on the beach lots and generally acted like I was on vacation.

"Local Talent"

Glenburn Township 4th Annual Show and Sale is going on right now through December 11. 9-noon Monday through Thursdays. It's not often that a township gets lucky enough to have Joanne Benson as an employee. She's turned the historic and beautifully renovated train station into a community center for art. She has found room on the walls for over 80 pieces of local art this year.
And she finds time to paint, too, as can be seen in her lovely featured watercolor "Anemones." The township supervisors and Lackawanna County Arts & Culture Municipality Grant have supported her efforts. So has Patsel's Restaurant.

Just goes to show what can be done in a community that wants and welcomes art.

570-563-1177 for directions and info.

My painting Narrow Gouge Again that is featured on the cover of the Artists' Open House Weekend brochure is on view, but not for sale, at "Local Talent." Also Clouds Roll In is there and it is for sale along with many wonderful oils, watercolors, acrylics, prints, photographs by other local artists.

Artists' Open House Weekend-12th annual

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October 11, 12 & 13 is a great time to visit over 26 artists in their studios from one end of Susquehanna County (northeastern Pennsylvania) to the other. Award winning potters, carvers, woodworkers, clay artists, painters, collage makers, printmakers, photographers will be ready to welcome you to our beautiful rural area. Penn's Woods are putting on quite a show of their own. You can pick up a map brochure at many local businesses, any of the studios or download one here.

This is a free, self-guided driving tour to about 20 studios. Some of these studios are only open at this one time of year. It is a rare chance to see work before it goes on to a gallery or National exhibit. The artists enjoy showing their work in person and talking about the process of inspiration and technique. Monday is demonstration day and most everyone will be demonstratins an aspect of their craft.

I will be doing a watercolor demo at 11 and a pastel demo at 2pm here at my studio. Please stop by. Follow the pink arrows.