Exciting New Painting Series

There are many exciting and promising series on the horizon. I mentioned the Power Grid (yes I changed the name already. I think Energy Grid might be more about sustainable resources and ideas. This piece is all about old-fashioned, polluting, scary sources of warmth, light, and mobility—Power Grid also speaks to politics, but let me not get ahead of myself (paren within paren--can I keep it to 9?). I am also resurrecting the Oakland series--as truncated to maybe four or five pieces on much, much smaller canvases, say 18" x 24." I've already begun one in this group, a 20” x 20”). A completely new series will be--for lack of a better working title I'll call them Panoramics (you may know as panoramas). They will be long and lean vistas of a painted desert in Oregon, a dry road & lake bed in Montana, and a sunset scene of those quintessential golden hills in California. These I will begin with and we shall see what else rears its lovely head.

A note to me as much as anything to anyone--this is landscape. I see a connection to the drought in the West in these years and decades of global warming, but that was not my draw. Not my focus. It may become so....but for the initial work it is solely the landscape and the spiritual connection that compels me to capture these vistas. I grew up on a ranch in Montana, the sucess of our entire extended family depended the crops, the cattle—in essence, the weather.

I’m wrapping up what’s in the studio now--essentially “eating my brocolli” so I can begin new work— As I’ve mentioned before, I love nothing better than to begin new work.

With the exception of my husband, who is a work of art in and of himself!

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