Plein aire hill top village in France
This painting got accepted into the “Plein air Artists of Colorado” annual show which will be held at the prestigious SAKS Gallery in Denver, Colordo on June 25, 20l0 I’m pretty humbled because there were entries from across America and some of our best landscape artists will be in it!
Isn’t it great that we can celebrate so many cultures here in America?! Today I’ll get to see dancing dragons and twirling umbrellas. Maybe I’ll even be able to sample some dumplings!
The weather has been great lately and in true form, I dump all responsibility and head outside with turps, paint, watercolor and easel. Red Rocks is just amazing with snow on the huge slanted slabs of rock. Makes me miss Moab all the more.
Today I will go to my first Art Salon in Golden. We have a coach who will help us learn how to market our art. Hopefully I will learn to excommunicate self doubt and get on with it!
It’s time to get going on all the new projects I’ve given myself! EAA newsletter, Friendship Bridge committee, Colorado Watercolor Society, Foothills Art Center and of course Art Students League–oh and don’t forget the promise of working out and loosing those holiday pounds!
Art Exhibition
European Reflections
Bring the colors and style of the beautiful Mediterranean into your life with the latest bright and refreshing art of Genesee artist and Evergreen Artist Association member, Pixie Glore. After studying and painting throughout Europe for 12 years, Pixie has now returned to Colorado to share with you her incredible adventures. Through oil and watercolor, explore the vineyards of France, the Spanish countryside and of course the beaches of the Mediterranean. Each brush stroke brings with it the bright, fresh, colors of Europe and the lessons she brings home from the Masters of the Impressionist movement.
Come spend an evening and share with her, the beauty of historic Europe. www.pixiesart.com
Reception: Friday November 6th, 5PM to 9PM at the Vista Club House in Genesee
20% of sales goes to the Friendship Bridge Charity.
Come and treat yourself or a loved one to a truly special gift and help the women of Guatemala at the same time.
From Robert Genn Twice-Weekly Letter of May l6, 2009, came a thoughtful post that was sent in by
Pam Ryan of Wilmette, Illinois. She attached a letter she received from an anonymous juror
The juror went on to say: “It’s vital for any artist to nurture and protect that which makes their vision unique. One needs to go inward instead of outward and learn to trust your own inner guide.”
“If you have one rule to follow,” she wrote, “I suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice, listening to the clues your own images offer.”
I love to listen to artists explain their work. I have a sculptor friend who makes the most amazing creations and has a long story full of symbols and imagination about each piece. From wood, stone and metal, theater and worlds emerge. He and his work are almost the same. He’s fascinating, and people love him and his work.
I wish I had more words to explain my pieces, but somehow I can’t quite get them out. I’m going to work on that, and not just for other people, but for myself. I think I miss a lot of self awareness if I jump from piece to piece without thinking about why I painted that particular work. For example, I am fascinated by women of Tibet that I am currently painting–particularly their smiles, their great big smiles. I have a huge emotional response to a person who lives in such hardship and yet keeps her children and even her village together, and still somehow seems to be able to be happy, even if it is for a moment. Perhaps it is those moments that keep her going. I think perhaps it is my own search for happiness that makes me seek these women out. From my cushy sofa, my problems seem so trite, and I want to smile like they do–Oh how I admire them!
Wouldn’t it be nice if all you had to do was paint every day and not think of anything else? Who ever said we had to sell anyway? Is that the only measure of success? You go to art school and no one ever takes a business class so we’re mostly pretty clueless about selling. We get out here in the real world and wait for the studio door to open with a gallery owner begging for our work. “Here, I’ll take this one and that one and the next five you haven’t painted.” “While I’m here, I’ll treat you to lunch.” — Ok, dream on. The truth is we slog our paintings back and forth across town to this show and and that exhibition and sell something every once in a while. You get in a good gallery and then the next thing you know, it closes–can’t make it. So we keep hauling our work around while it stacks up in the back of our studios. We give some to chairty and to our friends, but still the stacks keep growing. Bonfires begin to look enticing–during a full moon, with strong libation, we could toss and hurl the canvases and paper to the ancient art spirits. But, “maybe not” we think, afterall that’s kind of like committing sucicide of the heart and we’d have to endure the hangover.
