What's in a name?

It takes as long to name a painting, for me,  as it does to paint the thing and I don't have nearly as much fun doing it. What I want to express is pre-verbal. All my senses are involved in understanding the world around me and it's harder to put words to a gut level comprehension.

What if, as we move through spacetime, we cause ripples the way a heavy body bends spacetime. As I paint, I move around and time passes, and what I've done and thought before this moment affects this moment now. That's a lot of freight and maybe we can feel the displacement. Now, how do I get a title out of that muck?

I'm using a physics term in another discipline because time is thought of as universal and constant but when I'm painting my life experiences are part of the process creating a little wrap around my easel.

I'm not going to title this new painting right away, until I think of something pertinent. So for Art Walk this Friday I'll leave it untitled. Wouldn't it be neat if someone read this blog and came into the show to make some suggestions or start a discussion about these issues? Yes it would.

Teaser

Beau Reve (Beautiful Dream)
Acrylic on Paper
22"x30"
$350

Fast post- May 6th this and nine other new paintings will be revealed at the Bellingham Art Walk in the Kat Schneider Studio/Gallery, 6-9pm.

These paintings are acrylic on paper. Painting on paper is immediate and non-intimidating. I can be spontaneous and try ideas I might be reluctant to waste a canvas on.

Someday I will translate these paintings to huge canvases.

new works for a new month

I have an exiting new series that I am calling Artifacts. An artifact is an object made by humans that have cultural significance. A secondary meaning is something that occurs unintentionally either in science, medicine or mechanical reproduction. It also shows my unfortunate tendency to create painfully obvious word play- ARTifact.

There are two bands called, with various spellings, artifact. One from Nice, where my husband grew up and one from Norway, to which I don't even have a tenuous connection.

These two examples are not finished. I would like everyone to be surprised by how fantastic the finished paintings will look. I don't know if I'll be able to finish the lower one. The shapes are so satisfying to look at. They speak something to the depths of my being. I don't want to mar them but I don't want the paper to remain so exposed.

Art walk is the sixth of May. My studio will be open during the day for calmer viewing from 12 to 4. I'll take a two hour break and be back at 6pm until around 9:30. I hope to see some friendly faces there.

Relief Maps

April 2, I will be having an opening for my Relief Maps exhibition of large abstracts. These paintings explore the terrain of life to find out where the artist has been and perhaps to chart a future course. Its my first solo show and I'm excited and nervous. I hope I have covered every contingency. Guess I need a map!