The Annual Maker Faire in San Mateo was ages ago (May 15 -17) and I’m only posting now (Too much time sitting with the hummingbirds) but it was too good to ignore (and I only really made it to the light pavilion)! Next year I will devote more time and shell out for the VIP parking! My favorite piece was this mesmerizing installation Sessilanoid by James Peterson, it felt like …
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Oh my, look who’s come for tea!
Feliz Cinco de Mayo todos! It’s a big deal here in the San Francisco Bay Area with lots of celebrations and parties. My gardener Fred just told me that his niece will be dancing in traditional dress for the 49ers game today a very big deal! The way I will be celebrating is gazing at my Triton Museum of Art’s Golden Gala silent auction win – an original photograph by …
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Damn! That’s what I thought when I saw this article on David Michael Smith‘s Florilegium paintings in the February issue of American Art Collector. I knew it would happen sooner or later, the word was too good and I was just letting in languish… and it wasn’t like I had coined it or anything. And I know his beautiful work is very different than mine, it’s figure driven and …
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To be honest, when contemplating a call to entry, location is a bit of a factor. I have to consider whether or not the exhibition is worth the shipping expense or if I can drop it off, how far am I willing to drive? After all, it does take away from valuable studio time. So slowly and carefully, I am expanding into new frontiers. Today, for example, I dropped off …
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There’s something so magical about living in California. It was only a matter of hours between basking in the sun of my Los Gatos back yard, watching the plum blossom petals drift off the tree like lazy flurries and being caught in a two and a half hour (real) snow induced traffic jam in the road to Truckee! These flakes were not delicate little flower petals either – they were …
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I was recognized as an Achiever in Art and Letters by the Santa Clara Branch of the The National League of American Pen Women! I was among seven other professional women working in Art, Letters and Composition to receive this honor yesterday at their celebrity luncheon. Patricia Dennis, Carolyn Larsen, Patricia Sherwood in Arts. Ann Bridges and Clare Mullin in Letters. Melody Sheppard and Deanna Grenier-Mullins in Music. It turns out …
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I can’t decide whether the stylized flower on this English Deco teacup by Royal Grafton is meant to be a narcissus or a daffodil but I think there is some wiggle room. I will shoot it both ways. My favorite flower shop, Bunches, had nosegays of narcissus on two for one so that was the perfect place to start. Even as I write this post I am surrounded by the …
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Nilofer Merchant and her blog, Yes & Know recently challenged me to think about community and what it means to me in her posting, “Where do great ideas come from?” It’s really a big core question, and there are lots of ways of looking at it! Communities of Ideology: all your belief systems, religious, social, political, environmental… Communities of Geography: all the you’ve places lived. Communities of Circumstance: gender, race, health, …
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I am so honored to be named Artist of the Year by the Los Gatos Art Association! Here I am with awards chair, Vernon Dittenber, receiving my pretty blue ribbon. Playing in the background is a slide show of the history of the association which began in 1948. While it’s a lovely award, I know that one vote more and I would have been sharing this honor with Rebecca Lillis …
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Salon at the Triton… 6-8 pm…..time to dress!
It’s great to have an excuse to go to San Francisco! Today I dropped off the painting I’m donating to the Imagine Bus Project‘s “Finding Your Wings Benefit” at their offices in the Presidio. I got to meet Katy Schwager (administrative assistant) and Sandra Legler (program director) – both really lovely people and big fans of “Take It Go Flying”! I even managed to persuade them to take a group photo …
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Peter, Peter pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn’t keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her, very well. Kinda creeped myself out!
Opps! How am I saying yes to yet another benefit? I’m going to blame it on Holly Muñoz, she’s not only a musician and songwriter but she’s a real sweet talker! She thought it would be fun if the two of us got together and collaborated on a painting and a song for The Imagine Bus Project and their Finding Your Wings event coming up in December. So …
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Today I spoke at my first international symposium (albeit from the comfort of my own studio in Los Gatos)! I was surprised when out of the blue, Giuliano Reis (symposium chair from University of Ottawa) contacted me for permission to use my photograph for the symposium’s poster and more surprised still when he asked me If I might speak at the symposium as well!!! At first I was a little …
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You know, it’s always sweeter to be juried into a show by an artist whose work you think is simply fabulous and I just heard that not one, but two, of my portraits (Forte Pink and Dahlia Days) were selected by Gordon Smedt for the Los Gatos Art Association’s Fall Members Show! We really lucked out when he agreed to do it! I actually met Gordon Smedt last fall at the …
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With trees like these – pray for the bees!
If you could drink up summer it would be a rosito – my twist on a mojito. Rosito 1 oz light rum 1 oz fresh lime ( or way more) 1 oz simple syrup 1/4 tsp rose water 1/4 c mint leaves 4 oz club soda 1/4 c rose petals (organic) crushed ice Muddle mint in rum, lime, syrup and rose water. Stir in rose petals and crushed ice …
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