"Yellow" Show at PAAM

Today was the painting drop-off day for the first Members Open Exhibit at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It's been a dark showery day, but walking into the light-filled room, which was filled with a brilliant array of artwork in all hues of yellow,made the day seem filled with sunshine! I' m entering a painting called "Late Sunday, La Sagesse", which can be seen on the website. It's a rather mysterious painting that shows the golden light of late afternoon at La Sagesse Bay, Grenada, as well as figures on the beach.

There will be a reception for the "Yellow" Show this Friday at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, from 6-8 pm. The paintings will hang through late May.
Check their excellent website www.paam.org for more information, as well as the summer class schedule. If you've got time and an interest in historic art of Provincetown and the Outer Cape, take a look at PAAM's past auctions. You can click on to paintings listed by artist's name and title. It also shows the winning bid. I feel that I've learned alot about 20th century artists who's names I've known, but was unfamiliar with their work. It's also an interesting chronicle of "old" Cape Cod.

Art and Wine Wednesdays at V.R.'s

VanRensselaer's Restaurant & Raw Bar is hosting a series of Art and Wine Wednesdays from 5:30-7 pm, on April 29th, May 13th and May 27th. Different local artists who show their paintings at V.R.'s will be speaking briefly about their work. There will also be wines from around the world, and of course, wonderful nibbles featured each week.
I'm looking forward to being part of the first event on April 29th.
Van Rensellear's is located across from the Cape Cod National Seashore's Marconi Beach entrance,1019 Route 6, South Wellfleet.

"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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