Saturday April 26 10am-5pm

Sunday April 27 10am-5pm

 

We're Still HERe

 

Thinking about the first show of the year, both grateful for another year, and also that I can, and other painters can also- find some solace in nature.  Shutting off the noise right now is difficult, and at the same time, we need to make a little more noise. 

Women artists are to be celebrated, even more so in this current environment where we are feeling the erasure of who we are.. 

 

Winter into spring, I have learned more to appreciate winters.  If for nothing else that  it makes spring look even more lovely and joyous. Finding joy is nothing to turn your back on.

 

Lois Dodd is one of my favorite painters, she is now I think in her nineties - that alone is an inspiration, and her work is original and beautiful. She wrote a statement for the show Outside In referring to her needing less to travel and to look for something to paint, and instead looking out her windows. The simplicity and honest work reflects how I often feel about what I am seeing too. 

 

Jean Arnold, Jeanne Fulfs and Blake Hellman are three painters whose works I really love, and respond to.  Their connection to the natural world  mimics how I feel- -as if I am in their head with them. Very different approaches but equally impressive .

 

Most of the work in this show  is by women who have trusted this small gallery to showing their work.  Believing in good painting and authentic painting- craftsmanship with all mediums- clay, wood, pencil… all good. And I must also mention my male artist friends that have always stood up for the work of women artists, also grateful to them. 

 

Thank you again for your support- and the support for women in the arts

We’re Still Here 

 

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