Hanging the show with Maureen at WVTF...

 

Work in progress...

Prints drying

Selecting prints to frame

Framing in progress

One framed, many to go

Black Locust of My Heart

See details for the May 4 First Fridays opening reception in Charlottesville through WVTF or NCAI. 

A couple of pieces from this series:

8x10, Gouache, water color pencil, and ink on paper

8x10, Gouache and ink on paper

For my May exhibit at WVTF, Charlottesville

2011 was something of a lost year. Only recently have I been able to revisit the work I began about two years ago, to complete it for a show in May at NPR's WVTF studio in Charlottesville. It's a series of small works on paper having to do with trees, with the way trees make us experience our time, with how we feel their lines and what they do to our horizons. On the whole, people have been wrinkling their noses when I mention my current subject matter, as if trees could some how ever become passé for artists. This situation brings to mind something I think I read in Edward Abbey, though I haven't come across the line since, something to the effect: Who says you can't love a rock? Nonsense, bullshit. We have all loved rocks. 

Hedgerow, 8x8

(Gouache and Ink on Kitakata Paper, 2012)

May 2011

For the month of May, some of my prints will be on exhibit at New Dominion Bookshop on the downtown mall (404 East Main Street, Charlottesville, VA). For information and hours: newdominionbookshop.com, 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlottesville-VA/New-Dominion-Bookshop/173510849362530

Work at Clayborne

Selected recent works on paper on display at Clayborne Education (1140 E. High Street, Charlottesville, VA), with photography by Barrie Humphries (nancybarrier.blogspot.com). 

Lynx-Eyed Azadia, 4x4

Detail of work in progress...