"The Season" Approaches

Here on Cape Cod, it's still cold and windy, but we year-rounders are busy getting ready for our summer tourism season. When I say "Summer", ideally we hope for a season that begins in Spring - many shops and businesses will re-open around Easter, then more in Early May. By Memorial Day Weekend, everyone is pretty much ready to rock & roll 'til Columbus Day Weekend - or Wellfleet OysterFest, our last hurrah here in the 'Fleet.
I'm sorting through my framed paintings, and getting new work framed for The Sandpiper Gallery in Wellfleet, which will open on Mother's Day Weekend. I also will select a group of seascapes and still lifes to show at Van Rensaellear's Restaurant. They'll open for Easter Weekend.
This year, I'm also pulling out a few to display with The Visual Artists Cooperative. This show will be at the Chatham Creative Arts Center, 154 Crowell Road, Chatham. The show is entitled "In Living Color" and will be up from April 4-24, 2009. There will be an opening reception Saturday, April 4th, from 4-6 pm. I am a new member of the Visual Artists Cooperative, and am looking forward to meeting and showing with this accomplished group of Outer Cape artists.

Irish Eyes

We've just added a bunch of paintings featuring scenes of Ireland. most are pastels, but several are watercolors. The Irish landscape, sea and sky scape begs to be painted in all media, but watercolor really expresses the rapidly changing skies, and frequent mists.

My husband Bob and I have been to Ireland several times, and have stayed at many wonderful Bed & Breakfasts . Bob has bravely taken the wheel of a rental car, and we've done alot of exploring, particularly in Cork and Clare. We're very interested in megalithic historic sites, and have traveled many a byway in search of these ancient stone circles, monuments and forts.
I have two watercolors,"Drombeg Stone Circle" and "Poulnabroune Dolmen" that depict these mysterious places. If you are interested in this sort of thing, I found an excellent website,
http://www.megalithomania.com that has very complete information on most Irish sites.

I wish you all a Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I close with a sincere wish for an equitable, lasting, permanent peace in Northern Ireland.

Welcome to my new website and first-ever blog!The website will feature my paintings of Grenada, Ireland, Cape Cod, as well as the occasional still life, sketch or photo. Right now, though, what you will see is my current gallery of Grenadian subject matter, as my first goal with this site is to share this segment of my work with the wider audience that can be accessed by the world-wide web. In the next few weeks, I will be showing my other subjects, as well.I am new to blogging, but as I am not usually at a loss for words, I hope to make good use of this way to communicate. In the near future, I hope to be discussing my artistic path, Grenada, Ireland, Cape Cod, life and creativity, and other musings. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions.Thanks to Monja and Neil at Spicy Design in Grenada, and Curt from On Call Computer Services on Cape Cod for their help in getting this website "live".And thank you, dear reader, whereever you may be, for taking the time to visit my website.
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