Thursday, May 10, 2012

work hung at Ports of Italy, St. Andrew's Family Center, and River Arts in Damariscotta


It's beginning to be a lot like summer, if the rain would ever stop. Paintings that have hung, exposed, in places all winter long, are being changed out; new work is being hung all over the Harbor and up in Damariscotta. These two Valentine veges, which hung for a bit in a restaurant in Baltimore, are now going to hang in Ports of Italy, a wonderful Italian restaurant in Boothbay Harbor. Two other "postcards," 'Sunday Mass' and 'Ocean Pt summer' will also hang there, but I especially love the veges, particularly Parsnips a la Chagall (above).  But the carrots, called "Heart's Desire" is also a favorite. In that series, the 'Heart hidden in a Leek', and the 'Onion', both now belong to friends in Baltimore and Vermont.
In St. Andrew's Family Center, 3 small "snow" paintings are hanging now. They are a sequence of paintings of birch trees and a pine tree in a blizzard. I quite like them and hope to do more of them.               
And at River Arts in Damariscotta, I have a drawing of "the last vine in the row", done at the Antle's ranch in Soledad, California. It was juried into a show on Flora and Fauna, and I love that one, too. 

I have to complain a bit about the new organisation of this blogging site. I think sometimes, Google and all the other info techno companies have to keep changing things just to keep their people working. For us users, however, it often feels like - just when I've mastered something, it changes. And it gets frustrating. I liked the old format for the blog as I could see it as it was developing. I don't need to change the background or anything. It was simple and often elegant, or so it felt to me. In the meantime, bear with me as I undertake yet another learning.
Happy Mother's Day!