Wretched Excess
Greetings Dear Friends, I lost an artist friend last week. Carole Spence was one-of-a-kind in so many ways. Kind and generous. Passionate and enthusiastic. Brav...
Category: Other Artists
Elemental Art
Greetings Friends, This week the website Artsy featured the work of James Perkins, an artist who buries his silk canvases at the beach to let the elements do th...
Tar Art
Greetings Friends, My friend Chris told me about a fascinating artist with an interesting story. The artist is James Griffith, and he creates amazing paintings ...
Obsessed with Origami
Greetings Friends, Allow me to introduce you to my friend, Patsy Hofmann, a retired fourth grade teacher and local Ventura artist who has been practicing origam...
Bold and Brave Art
Hi Friends, I love this short video where artist Stanley Whitney talks about abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell’s art. Here’s a description of Joa...
Studying Rothko
Hi Friends, There’s a wonderful documentary about abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko currently streaming on the PBS website. It’s called ...
Artistic Influence
Greetings Friends, I was lucky to have grown up in an artistic family. My mother pursued sculpture and several types of painting as well as mixed media work. An...
A Life Well Lived
Hello Friends, One of my friends recently passed away. Susan Weinberg was a wonderful artist with an amazing 40-year history in the arts. Susan would write to m...
Women Abstract Expressionist Artists
Hello Friends, I’m reading a really good book that might interest you. It’s titled Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel, and it’s about five of ...
Impact the World
Hi Friends, I want to share this heart-warming story I received last week from Mari Wiseman: Last spring my 10 year old grandson Aidan expressed an interest in ...