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This painting is not one of the dozen pieces in the new show at Cafe-sur-mer in Metis. However, it is cousin to all the landscapes painted in the area. The spire identifies a rather large church in the really small town of St. Octave. I love this painting for its representation of the road leading to the town. For me, it is a slightly unusual example of surface design - a pairing of deep space perspective and the very flat surface treatment of the bottom 3/4 of the work.
The show has just been hung this a.m. with 12 pieces, only landscapes.
Last year the show was a mix of this kind of landscape and a number of Kimono works.
People who attended were interested in the landscapes and slightly bemused by the kimono. Oh well.
This is the announcement for a show of my paintings at the Cafe-sur-Mer gallery/espresso bar/boutique, with a vernissage/art opening from 5 to 7. The town is called Metis-sur-mer, about four hours north of Quebec City on the St. Lawrence River. I am sharing the exhibition space with Felicia Bartlett, an painter who spends her time in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick. I
had work in the same gallery last summer and it is just a great place to have an
exhibition. Lots of work left to do, mostly framing, but I am really looking forward to getting the work up on the walls.
Here is another piece that I will be part of the show.
Doing small paintings of barns has some of the same fascination for me as making the small
kimono works. Here are two pages of watercolor work, each image roughly 3"x 3 1/4". Following them are a pair of small barn paintings under way, oil on linen on panel, that are about 9"x 6".
Work still to be done on the oils.
Structure and design are the same in both media, but the paintings proceed differently from one medium to the other. What the small barns share with the small kimono, is my interest in surface design, use of color and a real, stripped down, simplicity. There is not much ornamentation in these small works.
The two abstract landscapes from the previous post will be joined by this piece with the title, "Kimono: From the Time I Could Hold a Crayon"
in an exhibition at Quench Artspace, Waitsfield, VT, with an opening reception from 5 to 7, today, June 1st. The show is a mix of landscape and kimono paintings. I hope you will have a chance to see this show.
