2 new pieces at the Portland Rental Sales Gallery. The Curtain. This abstract which has the feeling of a somewhat tattered beaded hanging simply evolved to the point where I finally realized , it’s a Curtain,so I emphasized that thought by adding the fringe on the bottom and the cord loops on the top. Evolving Lights. Evolving Lights , demanded …
One is named Bijoux, because bijou is French for jewelry. And that painting simply felt like a lot of suspended jewels. These paintings evolve and like I have learned, we humans treat or regard paintings as other humans at least that’s how our brains work, So when I’m working on the painting, I feel like I am communicating in an …
Jenny is part of a wonderful show in June of 30 abstract paintings at the Attic Gallery in Camas, WA. The exhibit runs though June and closes on July 1, so be sure to drop by and see this awesome gallery! The Attic Gallery is located at 421 NE Cedar St. in Camas, Washington. For more info, vist their website …
Thursday, April 13 was the reception for my paintings at Strand Gallery at OSU. I was extremely gratified to see so many friends at the opening reception. OSU did a masterful job of presenting and promoting this exhibition. I want to think the curator of the show, the extremely capable Owen Premore. he made it so easy for me to …
I am proud to be having a solo exhibit at OSU‘s Strand Agricultural Hall. This is something of a retrospective, covering roughly 10 years of work and ranging from straight landscape to surrealism and abstraction. Basically it follows the wanderings of my creative studio work, wherever the muse has led me. I love all these paintings no matter what the …
It has been weeks now since Lyle Hehn passed Away. It’s still hard to say “died.” He was not only a dear friend, but an incredible and foundational creator of the Mcmenamins look. What I guess your would call the visual brand of Mcmenamins. When I first met Lyle, he had already been very active for Mcmenamins, painting in the …
When I was between my junior and senior years in college I got a job working at the Silver Seahorse restaurant and marina out on the east end of Long Island. The great attraction was being in East Hampton and Amagansett out on the island, where a lot of New York artists spent the summer. What a treat to catch site of a …
This past weekend I visited a show that, sadly, ended on May 1. It was at the Hoffman Centerfor the Arts in Manzanita, and was titled Capturing Oregon’s Magic. It featured a sampling ofworks included in the book, “Oregon Painters Landscape to modernism, 1859-1959”.This is a wonderful book by Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit. It was a beautiful show. I …
Here is something I heard years ago, and I paraphrase here. Watercolorists like to pull form out of light, (light being the pure unpainted paper.) Whereas, oil painters like to pull form out of darkness, (ie, Black or color close to black.) I feel most successful with watercolor when I do small spontaneous pieces that are not designed. With oil paint, …
I just returned from a short trip to New Mexico to look at art, paintings in particular. We visited galleries in Santa Fe,Taos and Albuquerque. I got a good intense dose of Southwest art. Art is BIG there. Landscapes featuring mountains, rock formations, indigenous people, horses, cattle, cowboys, cowgirls and ravens are favorite subjects, and sometimes whimsy. Abstract art, not …