San Juan Arts Council

Hi

I am now listed on the San Juan Arts Council website.


Artists and art lovers of San Juan County: The San Juan County Arts Council website is up and ready and all we need is you! www.sjcartscouncil.org. 

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Mining for Meaning #2

Part of my Kimono Series... more work to do, but am beginning to see form and shape appearing

In Janes class we were asked to determine what approach we normally take and to think about this as we looked at our work

Approaching from the "formal"  end of the spectrum.. loving the how texture, mark making and colors work on the paper I realized that my work represents my love of the kimono/cruciform shape found in so many places.  I love contemporary architecture, lines intersecting creating maps, paths, fences shapes. .. and then breaking away. So the joy I find in painting overlaps formal and conceptual..  producing a variety of  pieces yet the underlying cruciform shape continue to emerge.  

The first series comes from the deli paper inspiration .. making marks, playing with paints and developing shapes  as demonstrated on Jane Davies blog

 

 Then I started adding bits of color 

And then my passion for all things purple kicked in.............so much fun!

That's it for now.... but hopefully I will keep up the posting because there are more pieces to post.

Mining for Meanng - #1

Been involved in online class with Jane Davies called Mining for Meaning.  We have been trying to delve deeper into our work by working in series. 

Here a few of my attempts..  The first two developed from Janes work I truly admire,  enjoyed working with colors I usually do not use

 

This one developed from my Kimono Series which I continue to revisit

And of course.. my love of purple surfaces.

 

 

Will continue to post over the next few days ...

WOW it have been along time since I posted to this.........

Just starting a new class with Jane Davies and want to see if I can figure out how to include links in my posting.. so am here to experiment.    Will see if I got it right..  

Just tried it and it works!!!    Another step for me.  yeaaaa.

Hopefully I will begin to post more in order to keep track of my process.

April - Washington Federal Exhibit

In April I had an exhibition at our local Washington Federal Saving where I hung over 20 pieces, but forgot to take photos of the entire exhibit.  Oh well..

Here are a few photos of what I managed to get just before taking the exhibit down.. a few pieces are a bit tipsy.. sorry

                 On these two walls the displayed pieces are explorations of texture and neutral colors.

 That's it for now. Hopefully  I get back to posting more frequently since the purpose of this blog to keep focused on my art and the direction I am exploring.

 

Catching up.

Good Grief..    It's be so long since I posted anything.. Don't know what happened. 

I  completed the  Jane Davis Extreme Composition 2 a few months ago and then decided to take a few months off from posting. I have been playing around with all I have learned over the past year and having fun.   Also had an exhibition at WA Fed in April.. so I guess time just got away from me.

Also wanted to explain the black out of earlier posting which I don't think I explained this before.. so anyhow.  When I began this blog I was really "blog challenged".  I didn't understand that when posting photos I needed to re-size them in order not use up the free memory provided by Google.  So all of a sudden I was out of memory.  I deleted some photos and guess what... many of my earlier posting lost the photos... resulting in blackout.  Have not spent the time re-posting earlier photos.  Prefer to spend time in the studio.  So that's the scoop.

That's it for this posting... Next will be few photos of the WA FED exhibiton.