Excited about my show!

I am going to be the featured artist at the In-Town Gallery in Chattanooga for the month of September.  I am having a reception from 5-8 and am really pumped!! Then I go away on a trip to Carmel, CA….fun!! This is my “Promise of Place” oil painting collection where I honor architectural structures that have either fallen to progress or have been restored or are being restored. View my work at my website www.mystudio6ix.com or buy my work at www.yessy.com/gma !!!

New listings on Yessy.com!

 I have now broken into the buying world of art and have loaded many of my paintings on the art site called Yessy. I hope somehow you will find these paintings and give them a good home! I really feel strongly about my artwork getting a good home. I would rather come down in price a bit and have the confidence that the owners really love the piece, that it touched them somehow. Most of these are restored homes or historic landmarks in the Chattanooga area. Here is a sample of one of the smaller pieces.

Great day at church

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Good lesson at church today about not focusing on what we do not want. In doing so we end up resisting the very thing we DO want!! It is better to keep gently going downstream, letting go of the oars and trusting that your dreams will come to you when you line up with the energy that they create for you.  No more turning back to look upstream for me!! At least I will try! Going to paint a bit this afternoon, read a bit and just enjoy this Sunday afternoon.  Here is just a little painting I did for our gallery’s Block Party last year. I am working on this year’s blocks…painting Barnsley Gardens this year.

From Rockport, TX

I am finally back!

This blogging thing is so alien to me. I cannot imagine that anyone would really care what I think about stuff. My friend Stacie ( her jewelry site is a link here) wrote a wonderful blog about a visit to my house and it showed me that just expressing yourself and sharing your life with other humans is enough reason to blog. We are all one in our humanity….all with the same fears, joys and dreams. We just go about it differently. 

I will be featured in a show soon in Chattanooga at the IN-town Gallery. My new paintings are going to be on the front wall. I am eager to display them. I have framed them in old window frames. Rather than making the frames to fit the canvases, I have cut the canvases to fit the window frames!! This collection of art shows a shift in thinking about my view of aging. In the past I have always painted things that were being distroyed…..emphasizing a sense of impermanence. Now, I am shifting to architural structures that have endured (so far) or are in the process of being “saved”.  It is my hope that this shift will transfer to my own thoughts about aging. Being 61, I am constantly aware that there is less life ahead of me than behind me. I tend to get antsy when I think of all the things on my “bucket list” that I have not done yet.  I am proud of what I have accomplished but there is still so much to see and do!! Other blog subjects for sure!! I would like to close with an insert of one of the small paintings I did for the show….a barn that is likely to be torn down but holds lots of memories for its inhabitants, both human and animal….

small impasto oil on board

New U.S. Pipe Painting

U.S. Pipe #12….New painting hot off the presses….or eisel as the case may be! Rock City is a favorite destination and this billboard can still be seen but the U.S. Pipe buildings are being torn down as we speak. You can view my other new ones of this site on my website…see blogroll…I am going to frame this one in expanded metal and iron. I really love to adapt the framing to the theme or feeling of the paintings. The price of this one is $600.oo.

Getting started

Getting started blogging has been scary for me. But, as an artist I want to reach out to others who share my passion with art. My love of architecture has led me to preserving the past and has taught me about my own aging issues. So, I am excited to shift slightly to add buildings that have stood the test of time to my new series that I am starting now. I love to frame my pieces with framing materials that are relevant to the subject at hand so I am excited to be using some salvaged old window frames for my new studies on classic residences in the Chattanooga area.

Blog Lesson

My friend Stacie is helping me today learn how to blog.

Being a baby boomer, makes this a fun experience.

Wheland Foundry, Chattanooga,TN…the size of this painting is 36”x36”. The frame is constructed of angle iron. This painting is available for purchase @$1500.00. Please contact me via my website.

700 Block of Market Street, Chattanooga, TN. This painting is 18″ x 24″ , oil on canvas , available for $750.00.

Hello world!

This is my first blog. I am learning as I go…… I affirm that this will be a great experience and know that I will make lots of contacts for enhancing my art career. Hello all!