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Pauline Crowther Scott and I are teaming up in February and March for “Themes and Variations,” our show at the AWE Gallery (678 Portola Drive in San Francisco).  Acrylics — watercolor — pastel — colored pencil — combos of all those media — all new work and lots of it.

Pauline’s recent series of works on paper is inspired by the leaves and flowers in her garden and nearby.  She uses a mixed-media and layered technique starting with a background wash of acrylics, followed by a stenciled layer, and finishes this off with colored pencils to draw in the leaves and other motifs.   My new abstract paintings and drawings in watercolor, in pastel and in colored pencil focus on the inner landscape of the heart and the outer landscape of the horizon.

The gallery, located at 678 Portola Drive in San Francisco, is open weekends noon-5.  The opening reception is on Saturday, February 4, from 1-4 PM, and the show runs until March 25.

In the meantime, shows continue at –

– The O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley until January 31.  The O’Hanlon gallery is at 616 Throckmorton Avenue and is open T-W-T-F-S 10-2.

– The Art Guild of Pacifica/Sanchez Art Center, 1220 Linda Mar Boulevard in Pacifica until February 12.  The gallery is open F-S-S 1-5.

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Two of the art organizations I belong to are having members-only shows this month:

– “Surface Pattern,” one of my watercolor mosaics, can be seen at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley from now until January 31.  The O’Hanlon gallery is at 616 Throckmorton Avenue and is open T-W-T-F-S 10-2.

– “Between Two Worlds,” a charcoal drawing, can be seen in “Something Edgy” at the Art Guild of Pacifica/Sanchez Art Center, 1220 Linda Mar Boulevard in Pacifica.  The show runs from January 13 through February 12.  The gallery is open F-S-S 1-5.

And — HEADS UP!  Pauline Scott and I open our two-woman, two-month show, “Themes and Variations,” at the AWE Gallery in San Francsico, on February 4.  Details to come!

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It’s that time of the year again — the (19th annual!!) Holiday Sale is happening at Kathy Dybeck’s home/studio at 2528 25th Avenue (between Ulloa and Vicente).  Hours are Friday 12-8, Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 12-6.

I am offering for sale small pastel landscape paintings, tiny framed watercolors, larger matted watercolors, as well as a variety of handmade paper and/or watercolor correspondence cards, journals and notebooks.  And there will also be several dozen other artists/craftspeople with a wonderful selection of works.

See you there, I hope!

(www.fogbeltstudio.com)

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In the spring of 2011, I offered a wide-ranging show of paintings at the AWE (A Woman’s Eye) Gallery in San Francisco. Finding inspiration as she does – everywhere – my friend, poet Kit Kennedy, was spontaneously moved to record her responses to some of my work.  She then read her responses – her poems — to an audience gathered at the gallery.

The experience of personally being in the gallery and listening to Kit read her poems against the backdrop of my paintings cannot be replicated.  So we decided offer an alternative – our e-book – delivered virtually, in the form of a PDF that can be ordered elswhere on this website.  Called “Beyond the Human Voice,” it is a serendipitous art/poetry joint venture that we hope pleases many readers.

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November sees me traveling to Newberg OR (near Portland) to give a talk at the opening reception for a show called “Expressions of Faith” at George Fox University.  I’m honored to have my abstract watercolors “Dark Night of the Soul (St. John of the Cross)” and “Dwelling Place of Light (Job 38:19)” as part of this national juried show at the university’s Minthorne Art Gallery.  The show runs until December 8.

And continuing until November 20 is the 53rd Annual Members’ Exhibit of the Art Guild of Pacifica at the Sanchez Art Center, 1220 Linda Mar Boulevard in Pacifica.  Open F-S-S 1-5 PM.  I’m showing another abstract watercolor, “Blood-Dimmed Tide (W.B. Yeats).”

Heads up!  The annual Holiday Boutique — with 25 artists and craftspeople — is coming soon at Fogbelt Studio in San Francisco!  First weekend in December — details soon.  I’ll be offering pastel landscapes from my “Snapshots” series, small framed abstract watercolors from my “Small Worlds” series, a selection of larger unframed watercolors and lots of handmade correspondence cards.

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The 53rd Annual Members’ Exhibit of the Art Guild of Pacifica can be seen through November 20 at the Sanchez Art Center, 1220 Linda Mar Boulevard, Pacifica.  Open F-S-S 1-5 PM.  I’m showing an abstract watercolor, “Blood-Dimmed Tide (W.B. Yeats)” — please come see!

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Thanks to Pauline Scott — wonderful artist and Mercy High School art teacher — I will be taking part in something completely new to me, though a long-standing event here in San Francisco.

Under the umbrella of an organization called ArtSpan, individual and group studios all over the city open up to the public for five weekends every fall, with every neighborhood assigned a specific weekend.  It is amazing to see in how many places — both the well-known and the tucked-away, the luxurious and the sort-of home-made — artists of all sorts are working.  I’ve long been curious about what it would be like to participate as an artist rather than as a visitor, but shy to take the first step. This year Pauline’s generous invitation to share her studio-home space in Bernal Heights resounded with me.

You’ll get a “proper” invitation soon, but please mark Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2 (11-6 each day), for a visit to Pauline and me at 401 Prentiss Street (at Jarboe).  In the meantime, you can check us both out at www.ArtSpan.org.  There is plenty of info there on all five weekends of the entire Open Studios event — click on “Artists” to find our profiles.  (Note that, for some reason, the artists are listed in alphabetical order by FIRST name.)

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My watercolor painting “The Mariana Trench” is the cover art for the second book in composer Belinda Reynolds “Custom Made Music” series, “Ten Solos for Piano.”  The painting also appears on the CD accompanying the book.

Based in San Francisco and educated at Berkeley and Yale, Belinda has active teaching and composing practices.  She conceived “Custom Made Music” as a way “to bring new music into the teaching repertoire” — to make such music accessible to non-professional musicians — like me!  I have fallen in love with her work and am currently learning two of the pieces in “my” new book.  And I am eagerly anticipating the opportunity to take a lesson from Belinda.  This will be a first for me — to learn first-hand from a composer whose work I so admire.  What would I ask Chopin or Schubert if I had the chance?

To see “The Mariana Trench” on this website, go to “Landscapes” under “My Archived Painitngs,” then click on the fifth thumbnail from the top in the right-hand column.  The book will soon be available at www.prbmusic.com.

To see the actual trench, which is near Guam and is the deepest part of the ocean, you’ll have to be aboard “the experimental ptototype DeepFlight Challenger submersible (which) is being prepared to make a record 36,000-foot dive to the Mariana Trench … sometime this year,” according to an article in the July/August issue of the magazine Venu.

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