Dreamy Work
There’s something I haven’t told you…
I have crazy dreams!
I’ve been keeping them in a journal since college. Over the years, I’ve contemplated what it might look like to paint them, and I’ve taken a few stabs at it - some successful, some not so much.
I don’t want the paintings to be hyper-realistic or surrealistic, but I do want them to be semi-representational. This is the most interesting part to me - seeing a one-eyed rabbit come to life, or seals playing in my flowerbed. The feeling of the dream can be captured by color and composition, but it’s a challenge figuring out what to leave in and what to leave out. I’ll share more when I get a few more figured out…
In the meantime, if you’re more into art inspired by the waking world, I’ve got a show at Museo Gallery on Whidbey Island in June, with Karen Abel and Laura Hudson. Saturday, June 7th is the opening reception 5-7pm and the show runs through June 29th. (Whidbey Island is a magical place in the Puget Sound, north of Seattle, Washington)
Splitting Image 30x60 inches Mixed media on wood panel
One final announcement for artists - if you need a little help with color in your work, there may still be one or two spots left in our “Color Cure” retreats in Scotland or Mallorca this fall. Practical exercises, demonstrations, and personal attention make our retreats unique. We are proud of our 7:1 student-teacher ratio. This means you get plenty of feedback on your work!
In Scotland, we’re offering all single rooms, each with a hot tub and cold plunge pool. There will be an optional phone photography class that will help inform your work, three instructors, and a mindfulness session at an animal sanctuary where you can bond with horses, llamas, goats and tortoises. Can you bond with a tortoise?
You can read more HERE
Or if Tuscany is more your jam, there is one spot left in a week-long retreat with the amazing David Hornung in November. This is not a Color Cure retreat - instead you’ll be in the capable hands of David, who is the author of “Color - A Workshop for Artists and Designers" This retreat will focus on an improvisational approach to abstraction and, no shit, you’ll be staying in a thirteenth century castle.
You can read more about that HERE