BLANK MIND

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind.  Something will come to you.

poet Richard Wilbur.

2007

I love this quote above.  It came from an article on writer Anne Tyler in last Friday's Wall Street Journal.  Worth reading: The Inextinguishable Anne Tyler, Wall Street Journal Friday, 2/6/2015.  

I am a big fan of her writing.  She has her 20th novel coming out soon titled A Spool of Blue Thread.

This quote above, by poet Richard Wilbur, is kept over her writing desk.  I am going to bring a copy of this to my studio.  Another ritual she practices in her craft is giving herself 30 days to come up with an idea for her next novel.  And this practice always works for her.  I have been painting many works on sheets of 11" x 14" paper for the last month and getting  a stack of explorations.  With this I am hoping the idea for a series reveals itself.  Fingers crossed.

JUROR'S CHOICE

Swept Away
oil/panel, 8" x 8" 2014
Wild Beauty Series

My painting, now hanging in Cambridge Art Association's new show PAINT, is Juror's Choice awarded by Ali Ringenburg, Director & Owner of Sloane Merrill Gallery.

The reception is tonight at the University Place Gallery in Harvard Square (across from the Post office), Cambridge, MA.  The fun starts at 5:30 until 8 PM.  Please join me and see this new exhibit featuring works by 30 other artists, including my studio mate Wendy Young!

Another painting from my Wild beauty series is also in the show.  You can see more of this series on my website.  Hope to see you tonight!

A Place of Secrets
oil/panel, 10" x 10", 2014
Wild Beauty Series

PAINTING

From these sketches last December I picked 4 and taped them to a board.  

These are my Saturday warm-up paintings.  I kept turning the board around as I worked back and forth between them.

By the end of the day this one below achieved what I wanted: color, expressive marks and a mood.

Acrylic/paper 14 x 11

Sunday I was back at the studio working on the other three.

PAINT

Swept Away
oil/panel
8" x 8" 2014

These two paintings have been invited to the show PAINT at the Cambridge Art Association.  Ali Ringenburg Director & Owner of the Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston, MA is the juror.  My studio mate Wendy Young also has work in the show.  

The exhibit starts on Thursday, February 5 th until March 5th and is at the University Place Gallery, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA.  A reception will be this Friday, 2/6, from 5:30 - 8 PM.  

These two paintings are from my Wild Beauty series painted last summer in Maine.  You can see more of this series on my website.   

A Place of Secrets
oil/panel
10" x 10"  2014