A fine artist specializing in portraiture and landscape and painting instruction in Portland Oregon
Surfer, oil on canvas, 34″ x 40″, $2800
If you’re on the East Coast, you can find my work in Troy, New York at Collar Works Gallery. They’re hosting a show of eighteen Pacific Northwest artists called Cascadia and I’m pleased to be part of it! My painting Surfer will be shown.
The show is up from May 31st through June 22nd.
Opening reception is Friday, May 31st from 5 to 9 p.m.
Collar Works:
http://collarworks.org
444 River St, third floor
Troy, NY 12180
I hope to see you this Saturday the 11th! I’ll be selling prints, giclees, original artwork, notecards, and other items at the St. Johns Bizarre. Come on by and check out what’s for sale at any time from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Want more reasons to stop by? Try the 51st Annual St. Johns Parade, which starts at noon, or tons of other vendors selling everything from food to jewelry to art!
St. Johns Bridge, Twilight View, oil on canvas, 20″ x 16″
Additionally, I’ll be teaching a workshop in just a few weeks under the St. Johns Bridge. Learn to paint en plein air in the beautiful Cathedral Park. Date to come!
St. Johns Bizarre:
http://stjohnsbizarre.com/
Saturday, May 11, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
St. Johns Business District
Now this is an interesting tidbit! My painting, Apples & Delft Mugs, will be an on-camera set prop for a TV series entitled “Made in Jersey,” a CBS legal drama premiering September 2012. I can’t wait to see where they have it hanging. Will it be at the law firm, in the main character’s office, at her home, or a friend’s or client’s home? I guess you will just have to watch and see if you can find Apples & Delft Mugs!
Thank you to everyone who made the opening at my Cannon Beach Gallery show a success! I had a great time spending the weekend in Cannon Beach, setting up my artwork, and attending the opening reception. It’s wonderful to see all my work come together like this.
I braved the snow on Thursday to deliver my paintings and headed out again on Saturday after working as a monitor for the Life Drawing session at the Multnomah Country Arts Center . Accompanying me was my good friend and “support team” Jeanne Levasseur (She’s an artist too, and you can see her works at theskylinestudio.com).
The Cannon Beach Gallery did a great job placing my work, hanging it alongside the other artists: John Cook, Brian Cameron, and Margeret Fort Terrall. My painting “Anne Views the Future” was featured on the postcard for the “Fruits of our Labor” show. Unfortunately, my seascapes didn’t end up fitting with the show as a whole, but I got to display many pieces from my Big Fruit series, including Apple Tree Triptych and Pear Branches. And “Fruits of Our Labor” will run from March 1 until April 2, so we had an opening reception on Saturday to celebrate the show, which was also featured in the Cannon Beach Gazette. There was a nice turn out and the opening was a delightful event. Some of my students from Portland joined Jeanne and me, and the Cannon Beach mayor Mike Morgan and his wife attended too.
It was great to be able to talk to people about my work, to share it and receive so much appreciation. Many people wondered about my impasto technique, so I got to explain and discuss my art (I also have a YouTube video on impasto if you’re curious).
I’m hoping many more get to enjoy the show before I have to return in April to bring my paintings back. If you get a chance, please visit the nice, seaside show, at Cannon Beach Gallery through the end of this month.
Two years ago on my birthday, I went to the Oregon coast to go crabbing for the very first time. The beautiful sights that day inspired me to paint, and now my “Morning Fog Burning Off” has sold at the Freed Gallery in Lincoln City. For me, it’s an image of that wonderful day.
We spent the day crabbing and caught nothing, but it was a great time anyway! At low tide, when the water receded, I walked around with my camera and took the picture that would eventually inspire my painting. I wanted to be able to smell the sea breeze in that picture. I sometimes take trips to the coast, to Cape Meares or Lincoln City, and I always find the rock formations there to be powerful. There’s a certain feeling at the beach that I want to bring home, and regardless of time of day or tide, I want all my seascape paintings to capture that essence.
In April of 2011 that birthday snapshot turned into “Morning Fog Burning Off,” an image of the coast that I sent to Lincoln City for display. Now it is finding another home, hopefully bringing a bit of that ocean air into a new space. It was sold to a Portland home, so I’m thrilled that it is going to be close to me again!