Room with a View-the Regatta

Room with a View was inspired by a segment on the televised Sunday Morning show.   It discussed the  Metropolitan Museum of Art’s April 2011 exhibit of the same name and featured about 42 Northern European artists of the 19th century. I was intrigued with the concept and always remembered staying at a friends house and waking up to a lovely seaside vista out the window.  I begin with the window view, then added the room and lastly collaged the curtain to add a feed of the cool ocean breeze coming through the window.

Here is "Room with a View-the Regatta"

Acrylic collage on canvas

 16 x 20

June Featured Artist at Artworks Gallery

Lowell Art Works Gallery Show

The Answer
Current juried Show at
Lowell Art Works



"Thinking in Black and White", and "Thinking in Shades of Gray" waspart of the Lowell Art Works Show entitled, "The Answer". 




" Thinking" is a set of two  7 x 5
Acrylic Collages on museum wrap canvas.

Thinking in Black & White-Thinking in Shades of Gray
During the national elections of 2010 I became very tired of listening to political rhetoric. The messages were so Black and White, like a horse with blinders.  I have a great fear of voters who sharing that kind of tunnel vision. I much prefer term employed in Thinking in Shades of Gray.  Weighing the options and establishing your own personal conclusions.

Also at the Lowell
"You Can't Get There From Here"
10 x 8 collage on Canvas.

You Can’t Get There From Here is pretty self explanatory.  How often have you asked for directions, especially in small European towns where the narrow village roads were never built to accommodate modern day traffic, and about half way through realized you are even more confused?  Sometimes it might just be easier to say- you can’t get there from here.


Lowell Art Works
Artists Studios & Gallery
5205 S. 2nd Ave
Everett, WA 98203
http://www.lowellartworks.com

Waiting for Summer & Purple Anemone

I painted from a photo I took last summer of chard

in the garden.  I was just going to call it  "Chard", and  then

"Swiss Chard",  and then "Rainbow Chard",  but it didn't have any yellow or orange.  And then, I began to get so hungry looking at it, I called it:  "Waiting for Summer".

Acrylic on canvas 14 x 11

And while I'm still waiting for spring, I painted, "Purple Anemone", one of the first bulbs to come up in my garden .  Acrylic on canvas 14 x 11

The Kites of March

                                             And then there's play time, "The Kites of March".

                                                   Acrylic collage on canvas 11 x 14

Bluebirds and Night Bird

Both Bluebirds of Happiness 14 x 11 Acrylic on Canvas,  and Night Bird 30 x 15 mixed media on canvas, are now available at The Corner Studio & Gallery, along with Hummingbirds I & II shown below.  They are part of the "Small Birds" Spring Show.

Corner Studio and Gallery, Everett Washington                                                 http://www.zhibit.org/cornerstudioandgallery

SOLD

Corner Studio & Gallery

Hummingbirds & Flight of the Rufus were painted for the Small Birds Show at the Corner Gallery in Everett.  I had a desire to do something with a heron, but had to rethink much smaller.  I decided to paint the little Hummingbirds who swarm our feeders each spring and summer.  We’ve put up one feeder for the Annas and another for the Rufus, but there’s still a lot of fighting. One little guy sits up on the gutter and dive bombs intruders.  I’ve named him “The Sentinel”.
I used an impressionistic realism for the Annas, but a much more abstract realism for the Rufus hoping to convey the velocity of their flight patterns.

Both paintings are 10 x 8 acrylic on canvas.