It’s less than two weeks until I deliver the work for my show at The Rob Schouten Gallery in Langley WA (on beautiful Whidbey Island.) I’m finishing up one or two more paintings (maybe) but I spent the last week doing all the busy work of putting together a show. There were frames to finish, paintings to put in frames, photographs to take (and re-take), all the computer busy work: lists and labels, inventory cards, checking and re-checking that my numerical dyslexia didn’t cause me to price an $850 painting for $58.
Drawing on the Past
Mixed media
11”x14”
Florence is the first European city I ever visited. In 1988 one of my painter friends was living there on a Fulbright scholarship, and I visited her, along with another friend, that spring. Enchanted April, indeed!
Il Barcaiolo (the Boatman)
Oil on panel
8”x10”
The mystery of Venice, looking out the window of our temporary apartment this tableau presented itself, there for the taking, so I took it.
Lost in the Rain
Oil on Panel
8”x10”
Winter in Brugge, dark and rainy, oh, but Belgian chocolate and the best French fries in the universe.
I hope you get a chance during August to head over to Whidbey, but if you don’t, you can see all my paintings for the show here, on The Rob Schouten Gallery website.
It’s been a whole thing trying to concentrate on making art while the political landscape of the US descends further into darkness. Those of us who write books and make paintings or comics, sometimes it feels like what we do is trivial. But I’m reminded time and time again that it’s not, mostly by people who comment on my Panda Chronicles or tell me at the gallery, that my work has meaning to them and gives them hope.
I’m glad all of you are here.
Let’s keep trying to find the light in all the darkness that’s around us.
Absolutely beautiful work!
I love all your work. And your work calms me. And gives me hope. Thank you!