*I have not added a picture to this post on purpose! Read on…. It has been some time since the discussion began about how the internet will change the viewing and purchase of art. Works of art from all over the world are now available to view on the web and this is wonderful for so […]
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Learning from Artist Bert Seabourn
This past winter, I had the privilege of taking classes with internationally renowned expressionist artist, Bert Seabourn. It isn’t very often one gets to meet an artist like him, never mind get to learn his process. But Bert is very humble and warm with a keen sense of humour that he uses to challenge the viewers […]
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Is Photography Still a Bad Word in Painting?
Within 7 days in April, I visited the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, then the OKCMOA to catch the tail end of their Photorealism exhibition. In a week immersed in art and landscapes, I also read Kandinsky’s “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, a theoretical exploration of colour and form. Kandinsky and Dow’s “Composition” were […]
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The Prix de West
Happy Independence Day! As a part of that, I would like to share a visit to a celebration of American Western art…. On the last Sunday in June, my husband and I felt it was time to end the darkness of the previous weeks by attending the Prix de West exhibition at the National Cowboy […]
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Looking Forward to 2012 & Discovering “Falls at Toltec Gorge”
My last post reviewed 2011. I introduced you to my early experience of Oklahoma – a place that I seem to be making a connection with at a very visceral level and much more quickly than I might have thought. As a landscape painter, I need to connect with the places I paint. It is […]
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Critical Mass
I had the pleasure of spending a lovely evening with a group of artists at the home of artist Pat Fairhead (one of her paintings is above). Pat is one of my earliest mentors in art. I took classes with her and she fueled my love for painting. Some of my happiest moments were spent […]
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