This work is now available on my new site. It's a free-standing piece that has been painted on PVC panel. This type of panel allows the artist to exploit the transparent and translucent qualities of water-based media. The entire box is built with the material.
March: In and out like a lion.
April: Welcome. Be sweet!
This business keeps one from doing any other kind of business!
t-shirts getting third life!
Pushing the season in the studio:
Unique and carefully thought out art moments unfold in a newly constructed home in downtown Savannah.
Given the opportunity to marry (finally, girl!) Flannery O'Connor with more books, peacocks, an oversize mail-box, I skipped to the studio to begin transforming this little free library for the Flannery O'Connor Book Trail. The blessing and unveiling of this itty community center takes place at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home at 11 a.m. on February 26, 2015. See you at the ceremony. I'll be seated on the bride's side - naturally.
little andalusia, mixed upcycled media, 2015
This work on wood panel and risers depicts oyster beds at the golden hour on Pine Island. The surface texture reveals a star and floral pattern from a previous work.
(color fields) pine island high tide, 4' x 5', water-based media on panel, 2013-2015
James Joyce, you one-eyed wonder, happy 132nd birthday!
Working for Flannery. After all, it's camellia season. And Flannery Season.
Rolling out a red carpet, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery hosted a lovely evening filled with sparkling drinks and conversations that spanned generations, genres, of course, Georgia's gloried capital cities and what all goes down here and there and who-do-you-know.
dr. kate, unlicensed professional, diagnosing landon nordeman with acute inflammation of mandible due to overuse (photo by susan laney)
When the peonies were delivered, I painted them.
This work now exhibiting at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery through April 10, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.
rose peony, 48 1/4" square, water-based media on panel, 2014-2015
Adding paintings and hardy plants to the studio today.
(color fields) cat island fog, 7" x 8", water-based media on panel, 2014 - 2015
water's edge: work in progress
A work in progress:
(detail) water's edge, 8' x 14', water-based media on panel, 2014-2015
Every year, I draw a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. I try to do this with one or both of my children and we talk about his dreams and then ours.
Today, I feel as I often do, that maybe I shouldn't dare or try to dream because I am not educated enough about politics, or how the world works. I am too idealistic. My ideals carry no weight. Maybe I am too liberal or too conservative so I don't deserve to work toward making my dreams come true. Maybe my dreams will be judged because I have or am too much or too little. But that's not quite right, and I wouldn't want any child in the world to feel this way.
Regardless, as with every single day since I-can't-remember-when, I have this thought whether recalling King's legacy or not:
My stone of hope for this nation and especially for red hills Georgians is that we might rise up (seriously! RISE UP!) and fix these durn schools.
I might go on about the things and events Americans will "rise up" for and I'd hazard that's not right either. If the schools don't work very, very well, I can not see a future of freedom for children or for us. And that is a heartache that haunts my dream.
kds + hambone, prismacolor and graphite, this morning
During a studio visit, Labeeb Abdullah took one of those "this is everything" photographs. It's got the studio, the work, the friends, the history, the marriage, the kids, the projects and collaborators. At least that's what I see.
New work from the night studio:
rose peony, 4' x 4', water-based media on panel, wip
These are paintings on Tyvek folded into the shape of pipes. I'm not sure how many layers of art history joking this is; a lot.
