I wanted to post the winners of my collage painting that was raffled at The Alamada Artworks Artstop last July. The event was a tremendous success, it was so much fun to welcome everyone to the studio! The most fun part was picking the raffle winners of Sylvie Levesque’s wonderful watercolor and my San Francisco […]
I am delighted to be sharing a studio with my artist friend Sylvie Levesque at The Alameda Artworks in San Jose. We prepped and painted the walls and floor and are finally all moved in! It’s wonderful to have such a nice space to paint. I’m currently working on 4 paintings in preparation for […]
I’m thrilled to announce that one of my collages was selected for the Salon at the Triton Museum statewide 2-D competition by guest juror, Charlotte Eyerman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Monterey Museum of Art! I’m super excited about this and looking forward to seeing the exhibit which starts this Saturday, April 16 through May […]
Looking forward to showing my new work in some exciting locations in the next few months. I am honored to have 3 of my paintings accepted for the “Tiny” show at Studio Gallery in San Francisco. If you are in the San Francisco area please come by and take a look, lots of wonderful art […]
I was honored and excited to hear that my painting “Freeway” has been accepted for the Greater Bay Area Open Juried Competition. The show will be held at NUMU (the New Museum of Los Gatos) . The museum, formerly located on Tait Ave. has recently moved to this wonderful new building and location on 106 […]
Having a few deadlines on the horizon can be very motivating so long as I plan ahead and start with plenty of time.Each painting goes through different stages, the beginning, middle, ugly and finishing stage.The beginning phase involves covering the white canvas with paint and drawing in my design.This progresses to the middle stage where […]
I ‘m happy to announce that I am now a member of a wonderful group of Bay Area artists known as Abstract 7.The group of 7 artists are united in their passion and involvement in contemporary art. Artists work in various media including watercolors, acrylics, oils, printmaking,photography,assemblage and sculpture. http://abstract7.com/home.html We are all working hard […]
The last few weeks I’ve been busy working on new paintings for the next art exchange at the Los Gatos Gallery.However, I’ve been making time to drop into life drawing sessions once a week, not always easy as there never seems to be enough hours in the day! Life drawing is one of the most […]
After 7 weeks of focusing on San Francisco scenes I needed to do something lighthearted and whimsical.I decided to make a collage of my granddaughter’s hot pink cowgirl boots! First I drew my image onto a canvas and then I searched for papers in my color palette of choice.In collage this is the equivalent […]
Eight weeks of hard work and the day finally came to install my paintings for the 50/50 challenge at the Sanchez Art Center.On Saturday my husband Tony and I drove to Pacifica with the 50 paintings, hammers, step ladder etc ready to get to work. The organizers had everything ready to go, spots in the […]
