Wednesday, April 25, 2018

the last of April

Lot's of interesting doings...

The "River's Journey" - still open at the Wildling until July 9 - will travel south to Santa Barbara in August in a somewhat abbreviated form to be shown at the Santa Barbara City Hall. We will have a "First Thursday" opening that month. We will be featuring some new work, including some larger paintings.

The River will then flow to Sullivan-Goss Gallery in October. We will have 2 months to show a portion of our project as well as new pieces.

Libby Smith and I will be having a 2-person show at the Santa Barbara Architectural Foundation titled "Double-Vision". We have painted together consistently for many years and thought it would be fun to show some of our work side by side - same locale from 2 different viewpoints.
This show will open September 21, 2018

One of my paintings was accepted into a California Art Club exhibition, titled "The Shape of Water". It will open at the Altadena Town and Country Club on June 3. This is the piece that will be in the show -










santa ynez river puddle
gouache on archival watercolor board
4"x3"







I'll be doing a landscape workshop with Meredith Abbott this coming weekend.
She's such a great painter - it will be fun to paint the Carpinteria Bluffs with her.

Who knows what else may come up?

Friday, April 6, 2018

spring and easter

the annual SCAPE exhibit and fundraiser for the Gaviota Coast Conservancy was held over Easter weekend at the Bacara. I was a part of the 'hanging crew' that puts up all the juried in work for the exhibition. we have about an hour - really- to hang around 200 pieces before the show opens to the public. Richard Schloss was the juror. 40% of the sales goes to the Conservancy which works to protect out beautiful coastline.

I sold 2 paintings which was nice -


vernal pool, coal oil point   oil on panel, 9"x12"





















low tide, naples point   gouache on board, 3"x2 1/2"

we getting back into our monday painting routine now that the weather is getting better. Libby and I are starting to prepare for our next show, which will be in September.

Still getting lots of good press on the "River" show - and sales. Libby and I will be doing a gouache painting workshop at the Wildling in June - should be fun!