Thank you to my Pacific Northwest collectors, friends and community. I had a very successful show at the Bellevue Museum Fair this year and am so appreciative for everyone’s support and patronage. Some of my favorite paintings sold at the show including the newly completed “Applegate Valley Vines” which sold on the first […]
We’re in the process of loading up the Suburban to make the two day trek to Bellevue Washington for the Bellevue Museum Art Fair. We’ve been participating in this show since 2000, the first year I ever showed my work at an art fair. The Museum fair is a very cool event with
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We spent this afternoon at a traditional summer garden party. Lots of fresh, organic food and plenty of margaritas to enjoy. It was relatively warm for the Humboldt County coast – holding steady in the 70’s with the sun shining. Our friends, the Collingwoods have a magnificent property that I have been expoloring
June and half of July has come and gone. A brief illness followed by a wonderful vacation to Southern California absorbed the better part of the past 6 weeks. I celebrated my birthday on the 4th of July in southern California at the beach home of my dear sister Kitty and brother in
Its North Coast Open Studio Tour time. Artists from all over Humboldt County open their studios during this annual event held the first few weekends of June. My studio will be open the first weekend, June 5 &6 from 11 am to 5pm. If you are in the area and would like to
Its festival season and this year I will be participating in three, starting with the Los Altos Rotary Fine Art Show this coming weekend, May 15&16. I have been participating in this show for a decade and in addition to having met a lot of incredible people, I’ve placed my work in more private collections
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The question of what a painter chooses as subject matter can sometimes be compared to an author. The best writing tends to come from what you know. I’ve been concentrating on landscapes for years more on than off and as my surroundings have changed so has my focus and direction. I started painting
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When I was a kid one of my favorite artists was Andrew Wyeth. I had a bookon his art and I remember studying it and admiring the beautiful starkness of mood he was able to create with his gorgeous watercolors and egg tempera paintings, two media that I myself delved into “back in the
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In November my husband and I visited a favorite inn in Ashland Oregon, the Ashland Mountain House Bed and Breakfast. This was our second trip at the same time of year. We love the area in Southern Oregon and the rich fall colors of the landscape there. My previous series revolving around Litha Park
In December I finished a commissioned painting – a 30×40″ pastel depicting the land and view of Mt. Diablo from the Emerson Dairy property in Oakley California. I met Trish Emerson at the Sausalito Art Festival and she told me about having grown up in Oakley and the Dairy was in her family for
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