ART ALONG THE WAY

Barn sketches

2012-01-13T16:21:00.009-05:00

These are little 4"x6" sketches of barns that I've done to prepare for a commissioned barn painting and also to get back into creating compositions. The size is very forgiving and prevents me from investing too much time into a composition that's not quite working. Seeing them on the computer screen helps me to edit and see what needs to be tweaked.

Another Advent Starry Night

2012-01-10T11:02:00.001-05:00

This is another 'visitation' of the theme of the Advent Star. This theme fascinates me (obviously) According to a meditation I read, this is the first invitation to the wider world to enter into God's salvation plan.

To see the rest of the Advent Starry Night series, you can type 'Advent Starry Night " into the search bar at the upper left corner of the home page. And, yes, they are all most definitely also an homage to Vincent vanGogh!

Welcome!

2012-01-05T09:41:00.003-05:00

Having my painting ADVENT STARRY NIGHT 4 on the cover of Living with Christ (a meditation booklet from the Catholic Church) is creating a surge of visits to my blog! If that's what brought you here, welcome. You may also want to check out my website, especially the section of Advent imagery , spiritual imagery, and icons.

STARRY NIGHT 3

2012-01-03T14:45:00.002-05:00

My first sale of 2012 and I'm going to ship it to Danbury, CT! This came as a result of another Starry Night being on the cover of Living with Christ published by the Catholic Church.

Endings, beginnings, celebrations and reflections

2011-12-29T18:59:00.005-05:00

My mother died on Saturday morning December 17. I was with her and she had a gentle passing, just like she wanted.

This has been a time for all sorts of things on this list during these last two weeks because of the overlap with mourning and Christmas and visiting with friends and family. Now is a time for resting!!

Ecclesiastes 3

A Time for Everything

¹ For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. ² A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest. ³ A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up.
⁴ A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance. ⁵ A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
⁶ A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away. ⁷ A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak. ⁸ A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.

A picture 94 years in the making.

2011-12-04T07:37:00.002-05:00

This is a photo of my mom's hand and the hand of my great grand baby Claudia Rose.

Absent from blogging

2011-12-04T07:33:00.003-05:00

I haven't blogged recently. My mom is in failing health. She's in Hospice care and it gives a new meaning to the idea of Advent and waiting.

ALCHEMY is the title of this collage. Changing from on thing into another. Mystery. This piece is in an online exhibit about the Art of Chant:

http://ecva.org/exhibition/ISAC/ChantThumbnails.htm

Christmas morning- Unto us a child is born!

2011-11-02T18:04:00.001-04:00

Advent Starry Night 4 chosen for publication!

2011-10-17T16:12:00.005-04:00

My painting Advent Starry Night 4 was chosen for the cover of the quarterly devotional 'Forward Day by Day' which is published by Forward Movement for the Episcopal Church. (And I received a check!)

Beth's Journey

2011-10-15T09:48:00.003-04:00

I just delivered this commission. It incorporates maps from Beth's life and travels in the USA- especially the states where her children were born. She's pleased and so am I! It's great to have a piece find a home so quickly!

Journey- detail

2011-10-13T10:35:00.003-04:00

This is a closeup of a portion of a new piece. It's a commission so I don't want to show the whole thing yet. I really like the way it turned out and I'm excited about the shrouded maps and the way the manipulated paper echos them. A friend said it was like singing' along the way'.

Psalm 131 I am calm

2011-09-26T09:10:00.003-04:00

This piece was completed yesterday after many days thinking about this Psalm and How it could be interpreted abstractly. It may not be everyone's interpretation, but it speaks to me. The top photo is without flash and the bottom one is with flash- which shows the iridescence.

Psalm 131

A song of ascents. Of David.

¹ My heart is not proud, LORD,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.
² But I have calmed and quieted myself,
I am like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child I am content.

³ Israel, put your hope in the LORD
both now and forevermore.

New International Version (NIV)

Our Lady of the Rapids

2011-09-19T10:59:00.004-04:00

These icon like paintings were done in an icon style with traditional techniques but I borrowed the Renaissance concept of inserting local landscape behind the Madonna and Child.

Church Seasons Calendar

2011-09-14T15:10:00.005-04:00

I have had two pieces of art selected to be in the 2012 Salt of the Earth Church Seasons Calendar published in Canada. I get paid for each image AND I get 5 free calendars. This is exciting!

Psalm of Ascent, Psalm 133, Community

2011-09-08T12:03:00.003-04:00

Psalm 133

Today's New International Version (TNIV)

A song of ascents. Of David.

¹ How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity!

² It is like precious oil poured on the head,
running down on the beard,
running down on Aaron’s beard,
down on the collar of his robe.
³ It is as if the dew of Hermon
were falling on Mount Zion.
For there the LORD bestows his blessing,
even life forevermore.

Psalm of Ascent, Psalm 124, HELP

2011-09-08T11:59:00.003-04:00

This image is called LIGHT CREVICE and I think it fits with the images evoked by Psalm 124.

Psalm 124

New International Version (NIV)

A song of ascents. Of David.

¹ If the LORD had not been on our side—
let Israel say—
² if the LORD had not been on our side
when people attacked us,
³ they would have swallowed us alive
when their anger flared against us;
⁴ the flood would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us,
⁵ the raging waters
would have swept us away.

⁶ Praise be to the LORD,
who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
⁷ We have escaped like a bird
from the fowler’s snare;
the snare has been broken,
and we have escaped.
⁸ Our help is in the name of the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm of Ascent, Psalm 127

2011-09-08T11:54:00.003-04:00

Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 127

English Standard Version (ESV)

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

¹Unless the LORD builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
²It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for he gives to his beloved sleep.

³Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
the fruit of the womb a reward.
⁴Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the children^[a] of one’s youth.
⁵Blessed is the man
who fills his quiver with them!
He shall not be put to shame
when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm of Ascent, Psalm 126 JOY

2011-09-08T11:44:00.005-04:00

The joy of redemption in this psalm for the journey foreshadows the joy of the coming of Christ into the world. This painting has the music and words to the Christmas carol "Joy to the World' incorporated into the composition.

Psalm 126

New Living Translation (NLT)

A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.

¹ When the Lord brought back his exiles to Jerusalem,^[a]
it was like a dream!
² We were filled with laughter,
and we sang for joy.
And the other nations said,
“What amazing things the Lord has done for them.”
³ Yes, the Lord has done amazing things for us!
What joy!

⁴ Restore our fortunes, Lord,
as streams renew the desert.
⁵ Those who plant in tears
will harvest with shouts of joy.
⁶ They weep as they go to plant their seed,
but they sing as they return with the harvest.

Psalm of Ascent, Psalm 121

2011-09-08T11:39:00.005-04:00

My strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.

Psalm 121

The Message (MSG)

A Pilgrim Song

^1-2 I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains?
No, my strength comes from God,
who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.

^3-4 He won't let you stumble,
your Guardian God won't fall asleep.
Not on your life! Israel's
Guardian will never doze or sleep.

^5-6 God's your Guardian,
right at your side to protect you—
Shielding you from sunstroke,
sheltering you from moonstroke.

^7-8 God guards you from every evil,
he guards your very life.
He guards you when you leave and when you return,
he guards you now, he guards you always.

Psalm of Ascent, Psalm 122

2011-08-22T16:22:00.006-04:00

In the Old Testament there Psalms 120- 134 are called the "Psalms of Ascent,". These psalms were sung when the Israelites came to Jerusalem three times a year and ascended to the top of Mount Zion. These psalms are symbolic of the spiritual journey of Christians through their lives as people on a journey and the struggles in a life of faith. This piece was also inspired by this video.

Psalm 122 A Psalm of Ascent (God's Word Translation)

1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to the house of the LORD." 2 Our feet are standing inside your gates, Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is built to be a city where the people are united. 4 All of the LORD's tribes go to that city because it is a law in Israel to give thanks to the name of the LORD. 5 The court of justice sits there. It consists of [princes who are] David's descendants. 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you prosper. 7 May there be peace inside your walls and prosperity in your palaces." 8 For the sake of my relatives and friends, let me say, "May it go well for you!" 9 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek what is good for you.

Psalm of Ascent, Psalm 129 and 130

2011-08-21T11:55:00.005-04:00

Psalm 129 (A song for the ascent to Jerusalem.)
From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me -- let Israel now say -- 2 from my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never been able to finish me off. 3 My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. 4 But the LORD is good; he has cut the cords used by the ungodly to bind me. 5 May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. 6 May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown, 7 ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. 8 And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: "The LORD's blessings be upon you; we bless you in the LORD's name."

Psalm 130 (A song for the ascent to Jerusalem.)
¹ Lord, I cry out to you
because I'm suffering so deeply.
² Lord, listen to me.
Pay attention to my cry for your favor.
³ Lord, suppose you kept a record of sins.
Lord, who then wouldn't be found guilty?
⁴ But you forgive.
So people have respect for you.
⁵ With all my heart I wait for the Lord to help me.
I put my hope in his word.
⁶ I wait for the Lord to help me.
I wait with more longing than those on guard duty wait for the morning.
I'll say it again.
I wait with more longing than those on guard duty wait for the morning.
⁷ Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
because the Lord's love never fails.
He sets his people completely free.
⁸ He himself will set Israel
free from all of their sins.

My new favorite video!

2011-08-12T19:16:00.002-04:00

The Steel Wheels are my new favorite music group and this is my favorite song of theirs.

There Ain't Nothin You Have Got that You Can't Lose

RURAL ROUTE 2 + 3

2011-08-06T10:25:00.002-04:00

Both 18" x 36"

ALLEGAN FIELDS 2 + 3

2011-08-06T10:23:00.003-04:00

New in the aerial series. The top one is #2 and it's 30" x 40", #3 is 28"x 36"

Holland Regional show

2011-07-16T08:53:00.004-04:00

I just found out that these two pieces will be in the Holland Area Arts Council Regional show in September!

Sketches for a modern Hodegetria (Madonna and child)

2011-07-08T07:40:00.004-04:00

This began with a random little sketch that I watercolored. Something about it charmed me, but the proportions of the figures were off. I've been resketching the figures and measuring and looking at pictures on line of mothers with children and Madonnas with the Christ Child (not THAT Madonna- though she and her children show up in the Google search). This will become a icon like painting. I already have a fabulous frame for it.

update

2011-06-07T16:48:00.000-04:00

I just sent this out to people who have signed up on my website for email updates:

Hello and happy summer! I was reminded recently that I haven't sent out an update recently, so here it goes!

I just hung a show of my 16 pieces of my music related mixed media work at Hope Reformed Church on the corner of Burton and Kalamazoo. This show will be up until September and members of the public are welcome to go see the show during business hours (You may want to call first since the work is in a much used multipurpose room. (Of course, all the work is for sale!)

Two of my tissue collages were accepted into the 2011 Festival and will be part of the show at the Grand Rapids Art Museum until June 12.

I have two acrylic paintings in the Going Green show at the Lowell Area Arts Council from now until July 13.

I continue to work most Thursdays from 11-4 at Fire and Water ART! at 219 West Main in Lowell. I recently rehung my wall and included new acrylic landscapes. I'll attach a photo. Come visit!

I also have work at the Salt of the Earth Restaurant in Fennville, Mi. If you've never been there, you're missing out on a great dining experience! While you're there check out the painting on the red wall "Waiting for the Sun" and collages in each of the banos (restrooms).

VARIATIONS IN GREEN

2011-06-01T17:26:00.006-04:00

VARIATIONS IN GREEN was created by combining plants I'd photographed at the Denver Botanical Gardens into a composition across three canvases. It was painted completely in variations of the color green. Alizarin crimson and Pthalo Green create an incredibly deep black green. Black and Yellow make the color in the backgrounds of canvas 1 +3. Shades and tints of green, adding purple to the green, using mixes of various blues with varieties of yellows produced many greens. Adding red to the greens made them brown. It was a fun experiment and the results will be in a show called Going Green at the Lowell Area Arts Council.

ALLEGAN FIELDS

2011-06-01T16:19:00.003-04:00

This is the first in a series of compositions based on aerial photos taken with my nephew in a small plane last fall.

My wall at Fire and Water ART!

2011-05-19T13:24:00.003-04:00

I just updated my wall at F+W ART! (219 West Main in Lowell, MI)

pieces in Festival 2011

2011-05-16T17:11:00.003-04:00

I'm excited to have FULCRUM IN RED and SHORE STATIONS accepted into the 2011 Festival GR! These will be in the GR Art Museum May 27 through June 12, 2011.

SMOKY MTN POPPIES

2011-05-11T12:50:00.001-04:00

SUNFLOWERS NEAR RUSSELL ROAD

2011-05-11T12:49:00.002-04:00

P4X239

2011-05-11T12:48:00.003-04:00

SMILE

2011-05-11T12:48:00.002-04:00

SHORE STATIONS

2011-05-11T12:46:00.003-04:00

SUNFLOWER FIELD NEAR MONTAGUE

2011-04-20T14:56:00.006-04:00

This is what I've been painting when my foot would allow me to stand and paint. The painting is 48"x12' so it's hard to photograph the whole thing and get it on a post. Click on it to see the whole thing!

THE RIFT in the 2011 ISEA show

2011-04-06T09:46:00.003-04:00

This piece was selected to be in the 2011 show of the International Society of Experimental Artists in June in Washington state. I'm very excited and now thinking of where I can get a sturdy cardboard box to fit it.

Final edits are done- but no title as yet.

2011-03-15T13:45:00.001-04:00

final evaluation

2011-03-13T14:31:00.001-04:00

Blogging while paint dries

2011-03-10T14:06:00.003-05:00

This is the under painting for a piece inspired by quilting and Paul Klee's Cityscape with Yellow Window. The colors are determined by the quilt on the guest bed of the people I'm doing it for.

Maybe this way

2011-03-03T12:00:00.002-05:00

Analogous Musicquilt 2

2011-02-15T16:56:00.004-05:00

Which way, I wonder?

PROFESSION OF FAITH BANNER for COS

2011-02-03T10:38:00.002-05:00

This is a new banner to be hung in the sanctuary at Church of the Servant CRC for the occasion of professions of faith. This is what I did on my snowcation day after helping to dig out our driveway. This is done on painted Tyvek with collaged elements of tissue paper and torn up liturgies and materials I got at the CalvinWorship Symposium! Some of the pieces were waiting from prep work I did in the fall toward this banner. I've also devised a hanger that I think will work and be discreet.

Soli Deo Gloria! I was blessed in the process and I hope it oversees many proclamations of faith!

MUSIQUILT 2

2011-01-19T14:22:00.002-05:00

Horizontal or vertical, one goal of the MUSIQUILT series will for them to function in horizontal or vertical formats.

Heaven and Nature Sing 5

2011-01-17T13:50:00.005-05:00

H+NS1 below and H+NS5 above. You can search the blog by entering a title in the upper left and clicking search. I realized I never posted these, so here's part of the series.

HEAVEN AND NATURE SING 6

2011-01-17T13:46:00.004-05:00

Another in the Heaven and Nature Sing series.

New art on my wall at Fire and Water!

2011-01-13T13:13:00.005-05:00

I brought in new pieces to Fire and Water ART! and rearranged my wall.

Girl's Club Advent project.

2010-12-24T15:03:00.011-05:00

The 10 inch square drawings with painted enhancements were done on silver tissue. These were "quilted" together with a sandwich of tissue paper, netting, the girl's drawings and a heavy dose of a gloss polymer medium mixture and then pressure (kind of like a panini). And then I added my own flourishes. This has been an intense process of figuring and doing math and prep work. The number of squares was a variable because of attendance in the 3 sessions and it came out exactly right! Thanks be to God!

NO EXCUSES

2010-11-28T15:09:00.003-05:00

Well, actually, I have a few. We were gone to Europe on a dream vacation for two weeks. My other defense is that my mom, who is 93, is feeling her age and I'm spending time with her in the mornings. Also, I'm working on a large project with the Girl's Club from church. I'll post that project when we finish it. I look forward to spending time in the studio again SOON and creating new things to post!

The door on this post is the door to Cezanne's studio. They wouldn't let us take photos in the studio proper, but I recognized pots and bottles from paintings! We also went past Mt Sainte Victoire.

Emerging Star

2010-10-09T12:10:00.002-04:00

This is the star just starting to change the sky before the birth of Christ.

THE HOLY STAR

As shadows cast by cloud and sun
Flit o'er the summer grass,
So, in thy sight, Almighty One,
Earth's generations pass.
And while the years, an endless host,
Come pressing swiftly on,
The brightest names that earth can boast
Just glisten and are gone.
Yet doth the Star of Bethlehem shed
A lustre pure and sweet,
And still it leads, as once it led,
To the Messiah's feet.
O Father, may that holy star
Grow every year more bright,
And send its glorious beams afar
To fill the world with light.

William Cullen Bryant 1875

Advent Starry Night 5

2010-10-09T12:03:00.003-04:00

This is another 'visitation' of the theme of the Advent Star. I have an Advent Art Show at Monroe Community Church in December and wanted to show a couple of takes on this topic. According to a meditation I read, this is the first invitation to the wider world to enter into God's salvation plan.

To see the rest of the Advent Starry Night series, you can type 'Advent Starry Night " into the search bar at the upper left corner of the home page. And, yes, they are most definitely also an homage to Vincent vanGogh!

a link for art lovers with an empty vertical wall

2010-09-28T08:18:00.002-04:00

tweak

2010-09-21T09:22:00.000-04:00

I tweaked the sky and background of the Elk Rapids Sunflowers.

new favorite quote "Above all, trust..."

2010-09-17T15:22:00.000-04:00

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way
to something unknown,
something new.
Yet it is the law of all progress that is made
by passing through some stages of instability
and that may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you.
Your ideas mature gradually. Let them grow.
Let them shape themselves without undue haste.
Do not try to force them on
as though you could be today what time
-- that is to say, grace --
and circumstances
acting on your own good will
will make you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new Spirit
gradually forming in you will be.

Give our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.
Above all, trust in the slow work of God,
our loving vine-dresser.
Amen.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
French Jesuit, paleontologist,
biologist, and philosopher. 1881-1955

Another Sunrise

2010-09-03T07:13:00.002-04:00

Elk Rapids Sunflowers

2010-08-30T08:06:00.003-04:00

The Edge of the Sunflower Field has a frame on it and the Elk Rapids Sunflower Field just was finished this morning.

Edge of the Field

2010-08-28T08:45:00.001-04:00

This is a painting waiting for the finishing touches. The focus is the bushes, grasses and weeds at the edge of a sunflower field.

Leaf layers 2,4,5

2010-08-22T16:17:00.004-04:00

These 3 paintings just sold on Friday. Their next stop is the capable hands of the Fire and Water framer and artist, Deidre Wingelaar. I can't wait to see how she and the new owner decide to frame them!

ADVENT STARRY NIGHT 4

2010-08-19T20:23:00.003-04:00

I was amazed to have this piece sell right off the work table at Fire and Water today. What a delight! While the new owners went to lunch at the Flat River Grill, I put a few finishing touches on it, signed it and put on an acrylic finish. It's really fun to keep visiting this theme. What an amazing night that must have been. Obviously other people feel the same way.

Fennville Windbreak

2010-08-18T11:54:00.002-04:00

This is another painting that is coming with me to the Art Jam in Fennville Michigan on this Saturday (August 21, from 1-8) IF everything will fit in the car!

6 inch squares on gallery wrapped canvas

2010-08-15T13:07:00.008-04:00

Here are a sampling of the 30 small canvases that I'll be bringing to the Fennville Art Jam, Saturday August 21. The canvas edges are 1 1/2 inches deep and the landscape paintings go around the edges.

more aerials

2010-08-14T09:33:00.004-04:00

Here are a few more aerial views that are heading for the Fennville Art Jam next week- August 21 from 1-8

12 inch square lakescapes

2010-08-12T08:20:00.005-04:00

Just a few of the lakescapes I'll be bringing to Fennville.

individual notecards

2010-08-11T11:04:00.005-04:00

These are a few of the images that I've had made into note cards that will sell 2 for $5.

notecards

2010-08-11T07:56:00.011-04:00

These are the notecards that are in a set I call the Fennville Suite. They are 7 cards for $15 and blank inside. The cards are also available in sets of two for $5. I'll have them at the Fennville Art Jam August 21 from 1-8.

Fennville Art Jam- August 21, 2010

2010-08-09T13:04:00.003-04:00

abstractions

2010-08-08T11:13:00.003-04:00

These abstractions have been waiting to be called finished for a year or two. I've decided I like them just the way they are and I hope someone else does too. I'm wiring them and they're going into the bins for the ART Jam in Fennville.

Lake views

2010-08-07T10:12:00.003-04:00

These are a few of the 6"x6" Lake Michigan views that I'll have at the Fennville Art Jam on August 21.

AERIALS

2010-08-04T16:41:00.003-04:00

I'm reworking some 12 x12" canvases from the archives for the August 21 Fennville Arts Jam.

Pictured Rocks near Munising, Michigan

2010-08-01T07:06:00.004-04:00

These photos are from a boat ride we took along the Pictured Rocks shoreline. As you can see, they are paintings all by themselves by the best artist ever!

SUMMERS DAY

2010-07-14T11:12:00.001-04:00

This is an older painting on paper that was just the right fit for a frame that was underutilized. Off to Fire and Water Art tomorrow.

sunflowers 2010 finished

2010-07-14T11:06:00.006-04:00

The beginning sketch for the sunflowers (I always love this stage of painting) and the final piece which is heading to Fire and Water Art! in Lowell tomorrow.

2010 sunflowers

2010-07-06T09:59:00.006-04:00

I updated a painting of sunflowers. It took all weekend to rework them, but they look better to me.
Left, below=2006, Right=2010

update on a 2004 image

2010-06-21T16:17:00.001-04:00

East Lansing view

2010-06-21T16:15:00.000-04:00

new landscapes

2010-06-15T17:03:00.001-04:00

Well, I can't post anything while the big computer is out for repairs...but there are a couple new landscapes!

ISEA

2010-06-02T07:49:00.003-04:00

Today is the first day of the ISEA Symposium in Grand Rapids (that's the International Society of Experimental Artists). I'm excited to see the show. One of my pieces in is it- the red one below. Above it hangs a lovely work by my friend Marylu Dykstra.. Also an exciting prospect is meeting the other artists, many of whom I know only by their work, some of whom I've met in classes and some of whom are dear friends. There are sectionals and classes too- should be a great week!

The show of 65 art works done in open and experimental ways with new techniques and materials will be hanging at the Forest Hills Fine Art Center in Grand Rapids (600 Forest Hills Ave SE) from now until June 29- hours 8-5 Monday - Friday. The opening is Thursday June 3 from 6-7:30.

vanity google

2010-05-18T14:20:00.002-04:00

Very silly to be pleased by the fact that I Google myself and up until page 4.5 it's all about ME!!

entries for Festival

2010-05-16T13:38:00.008-04:00

These pieces of mine were selected to be in the 2010 Festival show in Grand Rapids.

Here I am!

2010-05-05T12:12:00.001-04:00

Since I seem to be doing a lot of coming and going, this seems appropriate.

A quote from Barbara Brown Taylor in her book, An Altar in the World:

"Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are. When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, "Here, I guess, since this is where I am."

with Nikki Coloumbe in Madison, Wisc

2010-05-05T08:04:00.002-04:00

After four years of online friendship, Nikki and I met at her show at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. We're standing in from of her massive canvas Dancing with Trees. Click on the title to see some of the images in the Majesty of Trees exhibit.

what to post? what to name it?

2010-04-26T09:15:00.003-04:00

This is a large piece that is done with palette knife and water soluble oils. I'm waiting for it to dry before I call it done. It may need some noodling. I should have a naming contest for it.

I should post something else, but I'm doing things that I can't show: framing things or rearranging things or ordering things. It all takes time. New work coming soon. I have couple of landscapes that are very close to finished and some abstracts looming!

BLUE MUSIC

2010-04-18T13:06:00.003-04:00

TO FRIENDS I HAVEN'T MET YET

2010-04-17T15:44:00.006-04:00

I was layering on the paint with the pallette knife and thinking about all the artists I've 'met' online but haven't really met yet. My friend Nikki is having a show in Madison, Wisconsin and I look forward to meeting her at the opening. Click here to see her work.

using up water soluble oils

2010-04-17T15:40:00.006-04:00

The image above is 4'x3' and the ones above that are close ups of the texture.

my work accepted into ISEA

2010-04-15T09:09:00.004-04:00

The International Society of Experimental Artists - ISEA is meeting in Grand Rapids this year and the exhibit is happening at the Forest Hills Fine Arts Center during the first week in June. This is my first year with a piece in the show and I'm excited that FULCRUM IN RED was accepted! This is a big deal- If I have work accepted three years in a row, I will be an ISEA signature artist, which means I can write ISEA after my name on my work.

new landscapes

2010-03-24T10:29:00.006-04:00

"New"? The first three are a revisiting of some of my 'greatest hits'. Same locations, new take on the landscape. The other factor is that they have been painted on top of other paintings that never made it out of the studio. The layer underneath makes the painting quick and easy. This layer flows off the brush. What fun! All the other 'old' paintings better watch out!

CuARTo de Baño at Curves

2010-03-13T08:38:00.005-05:00

These are paintings I did for the baño to match the new color scheme at Curves . I definitely have a baño niche! The top picture shows one of my favorite circuit trainers, Heidi.

Now for something completely different, I'm painting a series of 30"x40" abstract canvases.

This too shall pass!

2010-03-08T10:35:00.002-05:00

FUN! Since I don't have any new art to post, I'll post someone else's! What a blast! Enjoy!

WAITING FOR THE SUN one

2010-02-27T13:50:00.003-05:00

Here it is in place on the red wall at the Salt of the Earth in Fennville. And here's the artist with one of her favorite chefs, Matt Pietsch.

SONG AND DANCE 2 and 3

2010-02-23T17:50:00.003-05:00

SONG AND DANCE: REST, 2, 3

2010-02-22T07:52:00.003-05:00

I don't know much about music, but this piece has a lot of rests in it.

WAITING FOR THE SUN

2010-02-21T16:41:00.010-05:00

New paintings 24"36" on gallery wrapped canvas. I titled the series "waiting for the sun", because we are, and also in honor of Drew Nelson's Jammie winning song by the same name. (Click on his name to hear a piece of it.)

CuARTo de Baño 6A + 6B

2010-01-27T07:22:00.002-05:00

The last of the CuARTo de Baño series.

WALLS and WINDOWS- working title

2010-01-22T08:22:00.004-05:00

My friend Larry O'Toole did a series with this title and I'm borrowing the title for this work done years ago. This was done on a roll of brown paper (not archival). I always loved something about this and I'm going to explore the theme on some canvases. It's a good place to start.

Art in the Church

2010-01-16T10:11:00.006-05:00

I am honored to have been interviewed for an article in the Grand Rapids Press in the religion section. Morgan Jarema did a great job of interviewing and writing. Emily Zoladz took some good pictures. This piece from 2007, PRAYER, was included.

CuARTo de Baño 5A + 5B

2010-01-08T17:14:00.003-05:00

CuARTo de Baño 4A + 4B

2010-01-07T08:20:00.005-05:00

CuARTo de Baño 3A + 3B

2010-01-05T15:03:00.002-05:00