Back from the Photographer

I just had my photographer, George Bouret, shoot a whole pile of my work, including pieces from a year ago, earlier this year, and pieces made recently in at the Vermont Studio Center.  Here are just a few:

22x30

20x20

20x20

20x20

22x30

19x25

18x24

19x25

19x25

 These are all acrylic and various drawing media on paper.  I'll be putting them up in Jane Davies Art Gallery and available as prints on Fine Art America, so this is sort of a little preview.  

Photos from the Residency

One of the most valuable things about the VSC residency was meeting all the other artists and seeing their work.  I took pictures of their work at Open Studio on our last day, but won't post here.  Instead, here are a few of the artists who were there:

Galen Cheney, Molly Bosley, Kit Donnelly, Lyal Michel, Janet Fredericks, Kathleen Fiske, Lily Hinrichsen, Irene Cole, Warren Kimble, and of course there were many more (fifty-six of us altogether).

Here are a few more pix of my work in progress, maybe some are finished:

 

 

This is just some of what I worked on.  The verticals are 11"x30".  

Another valuable experience from the residency was coming to terms with my own limitations - my attention span, my stamina.  Not just how-long-can-I-stay-in-the-studio, but How Long Can I Sustain An Idea?  Do my ideas only go so far and then peter out?  What happens when I try to push an idea further than my usual attention span and studio time allow?  I tend to work in short series, and often feel like I flit from one thing to another, and yet I know that common themes and aesthetic issues surface across various series and bodies of work.  Should I be more intentional?  Should I try to push my ideas further? Should, should, should.

What I discovered is that my brain peters out before my physical stamina for staying in the studio.  I want to be working longer, but the paintings come to a point where they need to be left alone for a bit, even if I work on several at once.  My work is pretty decision-intensive, even though the decisions are intuitive.  There is very little "busy work" that I can do on my paintings when my brain is tired.  So maybe this is a good time to make patterned collage papers, do cut-outs of shapes that I am now painting, make repetitious marks, or go back to my 4"x4" collage-paintings (of which I did NONE last week), or push paper around.  Thanks for listening!

Residency at Vermont Studio Center

Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, offers a Vermont Artists Week, in which I am SO lucky to be participating this year!  A whole week of just me and my Inner Resources, plus fifty-five other Vermont painters, print makers, sculptors, and writers doing same.  We are housed, fed, and generally taken care of, so that we can focus on our work.  So this is my only post this week, with just a few pix.  No videos, no tutorials, no Brilliant Insights or Pearls of Wisdom ; )

Selfie in Studio, first night.  Work behind me is new, in progress, warm-ups.

First morning I did twenty studies, 9"x12"

Stuck a few on the wall and began work on 10"x30" verticals.

In Process, ELEMENTS in the fog

Ditto the above.