Art Show at Lola’s

A showing of my art at local Asheville Salon & Gallery @lolasalon went up this past week.  I am featuring a large painting of a Koala – the proceeds of this sale will be donated to Humane Society International to aid the rescue of animals injured in the wildfires in Australia. (Sales go through Lola’s Salon & Gallery) #humanesocietyinternational #avlartists #localart #avl #mixedmedia #koalabear #localartists #ashevilleartist

This piece along with 20 others will be up until April 13. If you are visiting Asheville, NC or a local, stop by and check it our. Lola’s is a friendly place right next to the delicious “City Bakery” coffee shop and bakery.

The Next Show is on the Calendar!

Memorial Weekend is the date for the Kenilworth Artists Studio Tour in Asheville, NC. My work will be at Studio Stop #5  Check out the Kenilworth Artists Association site for lots more info and maps – www.kenilworthartists.org

Here are a few brand new pieces that will be in with other pieces from the past year.

Stop By!! Studio Stop #5 will host three artists this year – Me! …and Marianne Soufas an incredible artist that does pottery, pet portraits and custom designed mailboxes…and a visiting out of state artist Brien Bianchi – a extrordinary craftsman doing knitting and weaving storytelling into each piece!

Kenilworth Art Studio Tour

Memorial weekend- if you’re in Asheville, NC make a stop in this historic neighborhood and get a taste of local artisans who create amazing art in their homes and home studios. For more information on the artists and map please go to : Kenilworth Art Studio Tour

Autumn is here!

Here are my pieces I sent on a recent postcard swap …falling leaves….

Asheville ~ Memorial Weekend Studio Tour

Mark your calendar for this great opportunity to view all kinds of art work and the studios where it was created.  

This is my  second time to participate in this great neighborhood event in Asheville, North Carolina. I join 14 other artists who will be opening up their homes or studios to display, sell and talk about their art. We are all part of the Kenilworth Artists Association.

Come and support your local artisans!

This year at my address – 17 Buckingham Court, two neighbors will join me.  There will be a yard full of art- jewelry, pottery and my own mixedmedia and paintings!

For more information on each artist check out  this link: Kenilworth Artist Associaton.

Liberate Your Art ~ Post Card Swap

“Courage”

This was my recent piece that I used in the annual post card swap, hosted by Kat Sloma, called “LiberateYour Art”.  Participants send five postcards to enter the swap. Kat and helpers send your cards to five other participants which means I received five plus one from Kat , cards in the mail!!

Here is a short video hightlighting a sampling of cards from the swap that went not only across the US but internationally as well….(you will see my lion in here as well:)…

 

Here are the post cards I recieved in my mail box!

Left Column:

Jane Ross, VA

Tessa Klein  – onesparrowphotography.com

Bruno Barbey – www.facebook.com/RGoldsteinPhotography

Right Column:

Marrianna Dougherty, AZ  – reddancerstudio.com

Kat Sloma, OR

Jacinta – jmirishart

 

Thanks to all and especially to Kat Sloma – looking forward to next year!!

Eyes on You!

Adding another owl piece, I can’t stop seeing these faces – they keep peaking out at me!
I had fun creating this background with collage, acrylics and stencils and then poof they appeared. They are a fun pair with their “Fancy Feathers” – enjoy!

Fox in the Sun

 

This was a piece from Alena Hennessy’s online class “a year of painting II” that I finished up this past year.

We shared collage pieces with other artists in the class using them to inspire a collabrative piece. My fox face, sun and leaves came from Alexis in Oregon I moved these pieces around till the fox image caught my attention and then had fun creating a space for him to play.

First time to do a collabrative piece – great fun!

Look!

For the past two years (wow – can’t believe it’s coming up on two years!)  I have been taking an online art class from Alena Hennessy, a wonderful artist and teacher. She started a class in 2014 called “A Year of Painting” which I enrolled in hoping to learn some new techniques and to get inspired by ….what happened over the course of that year was astounding!

Not only did I get just that, I connected with a community of artists from all over the world doing the same things which in turn branched off to different paths of marketing our art, starting off on new career adventures and all spurred on by Alena…she kept taking us down this wonderful path of creativity.

She was approached to publish a book about it and generously invited her students to submit their work to the editors for placement in the book.  I am honored to say I had three pieces placed in the book along with the outstanding work of others in this class. You can see more from the book on Amazon at this link:  http://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-Painting-Workshop-Techniques-Inspiration/dp/1440342407

These three paintings I have shared above are on these pages:

It is with sincere gratitude I thank Alena and wish her all the best as she moves forward with her creative teachings! It has been an awesome experience of learning to keep your eyes, windows and doors open to new experiences!!

Two little critters appear

Two recent pieces from this fall….both mixed media pieces with ink, acrylic, collage and pen&ink…a shout out to Alena Hennessy and her Year of Painting II online class along with her Autumn Soul Retreat.

This little grasshopper appeared at the Soul Retreat happened in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The moutains were a perfect backdrop for inspiration as was guest artist Mati Rose who taught us some techniques for collage. The grasshopper has a bit of a back story: we had done a spirit animal meditation prior to going to paint and I was not convinced about my thoughts. Upon arriving in the studio here is what awaited me ~

How could I ignore such a greeting! As the details of his spirit were told to me by a friend, it became more apparent that his visit was not by chance …get off your haunches, jump , you have more power than you know….so here’s to you little guy! ( I still may add verse to it but for now he has found his place!