Wow! since my
last post, in April, the studio is humming. It's been a long few years of various stresses, illness, moves, accident, death, day job. Through it all I've painted and drawn. I've shown and I've sold work. I feel I've moved to a more solid place in making work.
For now, I don't have a 9-5 part-time job and other life stresses have let up. I'm able to spend more time in the studio and travel. I feel the difference. There is time, there is space and, in my new studio, there is light.
As usual I have two projects on the go. A project I'm calling Weathering Realities in ink and acrylic paint on paper that I showed, in part, at
Galerie Cerulean last month. The second project, going on in the background, is a series of oil paintings over old paintings.
The ink on paper paintings are not as cohesive a group as the oil paintings. They are wildly experimental within the confines of materials and subject matter, the subject matter being my response to and attempt to weather psychologically the impact of current political realities. In other words, making them helps me get through the awful days in which we live.
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| The latest Weathering Realities experiments alongside some of the oil paintings on the right. |
The oil paintings started out as a side project, but they are a more consistent and calmer companion to the other work.
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| Painting over old paintings, a more cohesive group that started out as a side project. |
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All together now. One side of the studio, with dog, where I look at
some works from both groups of paintings |
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More oil paintings. The one on the floor is the first larger work.
I find it too blatant, too disjointedly expressive so far, I'll be going back in. |
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Studio vignette. The blue elephant sculpture (studio mascot) was made by my daughter in
elementary school a long long time ago. |
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| A new start, ink on paper. |
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| The most recent oil painting in progress. |
