A day in the life of an artist.
Finally, I have arrived home after nearly a six month stay in the UK and France. I painted like a mad-woman while there and completed nearly fifty paintings. Now I am framing the paintings so that I can supply my galleries with fresh work.
Below you will find one of these paintings titled Open Sweep of Country. It rained a lot while in England.
This is the time of year when I begin to set up shows for the upcoming year. I am pleased to announce that I have thus far booked two shows. One is a one woman show to be held at the Canyon Road
Contemporary Art Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico in late August. August 7th I will not only have an exhibit showcasing new works but will also demonstrate my painting technique at the Squash Blossom Gallery located in Colorado Springs. Hope to see you there!
Winter Light
I have completed six new paintings and other than that I have been mostly keeping house and exploring our city. Once a week I take a bus into the Sainsbury Art Institute to listen to an evening lecture.
This weekend we plan to rent a car and drive around East Anglia. Should be fun. Next weekend we will take the train to London. It should be a two hour train ride. We know someone that is going to get us into the “behind the scenes areas” of the British Museum. Can’t wait!
A recent trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico in order to deliver paintings to the Canyon Road Contemporary Art gallery proved to be fruitful. The drive is six hours one way and a very lonely road. I am always sure to have my camera with me because I never know what I might come across that will insprie my next painting.
It only takes a few minutes while on the road before I pull out the camera and my husband makes his usual comment with a chuckle, “there she goes taking another 500 pictures”. Five hundred photos is no exaggeration especially since the advent of digital cameras. All of the photos I take I use as reference material and this particular road trip provided me with excellent cloud shots.
March 1st was a full day for me. After teaching a pastel class titled “Color Shock” at the Foothills Art Center in Golden I was off to meet a friend, Tricia Bass, for lunch. I took to the road after lunch and stopped in at a coffee shop to take in a photography show. Emerging artist, Lana Turner attended an art marketing workshop I taught last year and was inspired enough to go all out and display her work in an alternative gallery setting. Pictured above is Lana with a few of her photographic images. Her work is on exhibit at Noa Noa Coffeeshop in Golden until March 31st. She has many beautiful photographs in the show and I understand she sold quite a few at her opening reception. Congratuations to Lana!
Paid a visit to a friend and artist Sandy Marvin. Checked out her new studio she is renting in downtown Denver. The studio space is situated in a building where all of the other rooms have been made into studios as well. The place reminds me of my college days. You can feel a buzz of creative energy in the air.
February 9th
I have been working on a book titled A Success Book for Artists. Saturday I met with friend Anne Vickstrom who is helping me write the book. We discussed layout, size, and edited our way to success.
After meeting with Anne drove to the Center for the Arts-Evergreen where I had organized the Ann Bunn Memorial Project. Ann Bunn was a prominent artist in the Evergreen community and passed away a year ago. I along with the Evergreeen Artists Association created clay tiles to be used in a wall mural dedicated to the memory of Ann. Pictured here is Catherine Connors and Sue Bittel working on their tiles.
After the Memorial Project I picked up my friend Gayla and drove down to Denver for an art reception held at Peter Durst’s studio.
February 15th and 16th
Gallery 821 director Tom Hoekelman invited me to show at his gallery on Santa Fe Drive, Denver. There are ten of my paintings presently hanging. The evening of Fbruary 15th there was a collector’s night reception.
Noon on the 16th I returned to the gallery to set up my easle and demonstrated my painting technique until 3 p.m.. Then drove an hour back to my home in Bailey.
February 17
The next morning I awoke bright and early to greet my assistant Kelsey Parks at my studio door. Kelsey is a tremendous help in the studio and does everything from inventorying my work and puttying frames to delivering my artwork to various venues.
Alas, here I am framing a new painting. It is Sunday, a day that many people take off from work. Today I am in the studio from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m..
