Exhibition at Gallery 170

Here we are at the middle of August and the summer has gone by in a flash or should I say in a rain storm. It has rained forever it seems, daily, nightly and then all through the week. Today the sun came out just in time as good natures have been going south. Blue sky and bird song is out in force today.

I dropped off my new encaustic work for the exhibition "Three" opening this Friday at Gallery 170. The opening is at the new exhibition space at 123 Borland Mills Rd in Damariscotta Mills, Maine. Time is 5 -8PM Good art good music good people. Come and join us there. For more information about Gallery 170 or to find directions, check out the web site at http://wwwgallery170.com/

To the left is Memory II one of the pieces that will be in the show. Come to the opening to see the rest of the art. I will be exhibiting encaustics. Nancy Freeman will be exhibiting collages and Fran Kidder paintings. The regular gallery hours are 11-5 Thursday thru Sunday. Please stop by.

Be well, make good art, and enjoy the sun, at least in Maine today! Diane

New Images From January 2008

New Years Greetings from the Island, Here the land has turned white and stayed white inspiring a new series of painting using , white!!! At the end of 2007 I challenged myself to get back to the oils and have something to show for it whether it took months or 2 years but to keep steady at the process. I have been able to do this spending many hours in the studio. First off I had to come up with 3 paintings for a show in February called Big Big Love. The show is up now at the North Dam Mill in Saco and runs for the month of February. The image of my submissions is at the top.

And also the drying wall in my studio with a few of the white paintings. In tomorrows post I will show a few of the encaustics I am working on . Its a series harkening back to my days in textiles when I wove rag rugs and did some production weaving in napkins, placemats and other small items. I also used to dye 200 pounds of wool in a season. The series is called Indigo and uses some graphics from the stitching method in Japan to make decorative items as well as common day cleaning cloths. This Sashiko stitch binds cloth togther. The cleaning cloths are called Sashiko Zokin. I have immersed myself in these encaustics and now find myself even trying to do the stitching on some batik cloth which is the closest I can come to the dark blues of Indigo and the other resist dyes that are used in some woven garments. Until then live well, Diane