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December 2023
Abracadabra
48" x 20"
birch panel, copper oxide stain, oil paint, Lokta paper (hand made in Nepal), and glue
My new studio has a garage door! We like this door. As if by magic, a new painting emerged from an old painting. A little show of beauty in our achy world.
Sending flower faeries flying full of fancy....
and love
November 2023
Wayfinding
Iceland
Buffalo Art Movement aka BAM! is hosting a closing reception tomorrow, Friday December 1 at their gallery on Great Arrow from
4-7pm.
I recently moved into a studio on the same floor, next door to BAM, and will be in my studio tomorrow during the same hours. Please stop in and say hello if you venture out
255 Great Arrow Ave (door to the left of the big flagpole)
Suite 206 Jeannine
Suite 200 BAM!
Buffalo, NY 14207
Call me if you have trouble FiNdiNg YoUr wAy
716-807-8030
September 2023
Not A Garland / Not Not A Garland
40" x 60"
lime plaster, ground glass, copper oxide, indigo, chalk, and acrylic paint on canvas
This painting has been a work in process since 2021. As its ingredients bump up against each other, merge, retreat, step forward and change, I watch and make micro adjustments.
I hope that I have nurtured it enough that it will bring joy wherever it travels.
In October 2023 Not A Garland/Not Not A Garland will be sold at the Burchfield Penny (716) Art Auction.
As I say goodbye to this friend, my wish is that it will be a source of friendship for whomever buys it.
August 2023
From Earth to Art
48" x 20"
birch panel, copper oxide stain, oil paint, Lokta paper (hand made in Napal), and glue
The materials of art are ingredients which, when brought together, act as catalysts for transformation.
This is a primal relationship.
In the making process a painting rises and falls, develops complexity and surrenders to simplicity and in the end it is what it is.
June 2023
Is it possible to look at a picture and not analyze it, not classify it and not name it? So much hidden beauty is lost when we experience only through our intellect.
With appreciation to my little teacher, René, whose joy is contagious (as are his colds).
Ah ah ah choooo!
May 2023
Untitled
11" x 14" wood panel, paper & paint
Reclaimed earth colors, made into oil paints by Gamblin. These pigments have a story. For more information see
https://gamblincolors.com/reclaimed-earth-colors/
"Happiness is the realization of internal beauty which joyously goes forth to mingle itself with the beauty that dwells in space."
~ Manly P. Hall, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
Art - beauty that decends from ineffable Space
April 2023
Spot Pond
Photograph
"Why shouldn't one feel an immense, tender ecstasy of love for the spring, or for all humanity?"
~ Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life
March 2023
"A Wave Is Made Of Water"
38" x 28"
lime plaster, indigo, oil paint, saffron water, & gold leaf
I have changed this painting often. Twice after I framed it and now, again, over the past month. An evolution from cradle to cradle. Dedicated to my a dear friend, Melissa, who passed this month.
A wave is made of water
And when its waviness is gone
It is still water
January 2023
"Ground, Water, Snow, Mist, Sky"
24" x 18”
lime plaster, graphite powder, chalk paint, & glue
Every new year I am reminded that I love winter! Snow is a flutter of 6 pointed miracles - darkness, a womb of potential. The sun is hiding, but I know it is there.
Sending thoughts of love from a warm heart.