Looking forward to a calmer and beautiful time of the year.
Looking forward to a calmer and beautiful time of the year.

  So hard to believe summer, at least in my part of the world, is over. I'm seeing women in the new fall fashions. Here and there leaves are starting to turn. When I take my morning coffee out to the deck, I bring a sweater. I hear the Canada Geese honking as they start to gather together.  Days are still warm but it's getting late to sleep in a tent. 

 

  I took a little bit of summer vacation, but not much.  I have so many things happening in my art life!  I've been preparing for a mini-display at Blink on Princess Street, which is the window of INK Graphic Design Services Inc. I'm hosting a "Doors Open" on September 24th in conjunction with Harvesting the Arts and I have several works in The Cathedral Restoration Show September 23 and 24th. Creating fresh work for these events has kept me busy. What is really keeping me close to home is creating paintings for my solo show at Imperial Theatre starting at the end of January. This will be my largest solo show to date and I am working on creating a cohesive body of the best work I can do. Surrealism is starting to appear on canvases in my studio but it's a different kind of surrealism.

 

  So many people have been into the studio lately and a lot of my works have found new homes. I'm almost totally representing myself these days and I like it.  I love meeting with the people who buy my works and talking with them and getting emails and photos of paintings in their new homes.  Before, I would hear, "it went to Fredericton",  or a "young couple" bought it. Now I know a painting's in a kitchen dining room or wherever.  This means a lot as I put so much of myself into a painting.

 

  And then, there's the "painting parties". I'm excited to be doing a "Canvas and Mocktail" at Taste of Egypt on September 28th and I have two big fundraiser parties in November. I've worked out a few new paintings and will be booking mini-parties in the studio as I can only seat 6 comfortably.  I also have bookings for parties in people's homes. Thank goodness, I love what I do!