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Starting with Lisa Kairos’ show opening on May 5, the AWE Gallery begins a three-month focus on the “encaustic” medium.  Eileen Goldenberg’s solo show opens on June 6 and her group show, “THREE/3,” on July 7.  Each opening is on a Saturday, from 12-5.  And the gallery is at 678 Portola Drive in San Francisco.

We are augmenting these art shows with 3 afternoons of “ekphrastic” poetry, featuring poets who have committed to respond to each specific show.  These events will take place at 2 PM on these Sundays: May 13, June 24 and July 22.

(Encaustic involves making works of art using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added, while ekphrastic means using one art form to expand upon another — for example, writing a poem about an encaustic painting!)

Please come see and hear for yourself.

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The Marin Civic Center is currently hosting two Marin County Watercolor Society shows — “Hail to the People” in the First Floor Gallery and “Anything Goes” in the Third Floor Gallery.  I have two paintings in “Anything Goes” — “Surface Pattern” and “Sonoma Vineyard,” both watercolor mosaics.  The work can be seen Monday through Friday, business hours, and both shows will run until early August.

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I am happy to announce that I am now a “resident artist” at the AWE (A Woman’s Eye) Gallery.  Four photographers — Stacy Boorn, Chris Kibre, Alice Steele and Janet Stock — and I now comprise the Main Gallery, whose Annex space continues to feature guest artists and photographers in shows that change every month or two.

So I will always have a special little show on view in the Main Gallery — right now, my pastel heart paintings in a display I’m calling “The Heart of the Matter.”  And a selection of my other work — watercolor and pastel paintings, plus handmade cards and other small items — will also be available for view, discussion and  sale — along with works by my sister artist-photographers.

The AWE Gallery is at 678 Portola Drive in San Francisco.  Open each Saturday and Sunday 12-5.  All are welcome.

The next Annex show opens this coming Saturday and runs until April 29.  Called “Morocco: Color and Contrast,” it celebrates the photographs of Stacy Boorn, Chris Kibre and Maureen McGettigan based on an extraordinary trip the women took there last year.  The opening reception will feature Moroccan food and drink.

I’ll be there, and I’d love to officially welcome you to my new site!

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Pauline and I are celebrating the last weekend of our 2-month show at the AWE Gallery with an afternoon of music — Bill Bennett on bass guitar and Dan Zalles on electric guitar — this Saturday, March 24.  The gallery is open from 12 noon to 5 PM, and Bill and Dan will begin playing at 2 PM. Refreshments, of course!

We have had a wonderful time visiting with so many of you these past two months at the gallery, and it would be lovely to greet you in our art setting one more time!

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So many thanks to all who were able to come to Pauline’s and my opening reception at the AWE Gallery last month, and who visited at other times.  So much appreciated.

For those who have not yet been able to attend — or who want to come back — a nice opportunity awaits tomorrow, when we kick off March with a special event.  My friends Kit Kennedy and Susan Gangel will read from their latest poetry collaboration, “Constellations,” and Pauline’s daughter Chloe Scott will give a preview of her upcoming flute performance at the SF Jazz Festival.

The gallery is open from 12-5 and the poetry/music happens at 2 PM.

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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 Francisco, 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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