Da Vinci Exhibit

Visited the OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science & Industry) in Portland yesterday to experience the Da Vinci Exhibit. What a great exhibit! Da Vinci was an incredibly talented man. Imagine creating your own written language written backwards. You can see reproductions of his notebooks containing his language and many poster-sized sketches, drawings, notes at the OMSI.

Arts Resource Opens

The weekend show was a fantastic experience. The town of Carlton was welcoming to everyone attending, especially friends visiting from out-of-town like Portland and Vancouver. What a memorable day! I loved broadcasting live. That gave me an opportunity to share the gallery with my friends & family from out-of-state - California, Nevada and the East Coast. You can watch the recordings at ustream.tv/channel/arts-resource-gallery.

"Changes" Art Show - Painted translations of the I'Ching

Visual translations of the I’Ching Book of Changes. Come to the grand opening of Arts Resource Gallery in Downtown Carlton. Yamhill Valley Arts is embarking on its first sponsored gallery adventure featuring the art show “Changes”. Come visit the gallery on Main Street and feast on the beautiful artwork ⎯ earlier works like “Peace” and several new works like “Joy”, “Abundance” & “Graceful”.

The I’Ching are trigrams represented by 64 possible hexagrams of 6 lines. Study of the I’Ching helps one to understand awareness & one’s state of consciousness assisting in decision-making and action for change.


Grand opening 12 p.m. ⎯ 6 p.m.

Arts Resource Gallery
223 Main Street
Carlton, OR 97111

Hip Chicks Do Wine (and Art)

On Friday, September 5, 2008, I will be the featured artist at Hip Chicks Do Wine's Newberg Tasting Room as part of the Newberg First Friday Artwalk. Visit Hip Chicks Do Wine at their website for directions: http://hipchicksdowine.com/about/directions.php.

"Chaotic Passion" was selected as the cover art for the First Friday Artwalk publication. That is exciting news, especially since it was a wonderful surprise for me coming back from Ireland in August. I had no idea I was chosen until the I arrived at Hip Chicks.

The NEST Project

The NEST project is a collaboration of creativity from artists of Yamhill County, Oregon inspired by the word "NEST". Learn about Jan Shield, Professor of Art at Pacific University, who envisioned this concept of NEST from his hilltop home in Chehalem Mountain at his website: Dancing Trees Sanctuary. I am contributing my creative talent to this project which will involve a several new originals utilizing the honeycomb structures found in beehives. For this art project, I will be delving into encaustics, using beeswax and oils to create my masterpieces.

Here are the upcoming venues:

First Exhibition: The Horse Radish at Carlton, Oregon from September 4th - 30th with a reception on Friday, September 5th from 4:30 to 6:45pm.

Second Exhibition: Accolades Contemporary Art & Craft Gallery at McMinnville, Oregon from October 4th - 30th with reception on Saturday, October 18th from 4:00 to 8:00pm.

Third Exhibition: To Be Announced

Fourth Exhibition: Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center at Hillsboro, Oregon from November 4th - 29th with reception on Tuesday, November 4th from 6:00 to 8:00pm.

Artists Village update - McMinnville Downtown Festival

With temperatures in the high 80's on Friday and mid 90's on Saturday, the Artist Village received astounding traffic from art patrons & connoisseurs of all ilk. With 20 juried artists, the village was well represented with artists -- copper-smith, pottery, sumi-e, water color, color pencil, felting, wood-carver, photography, and oils. This was a remarkable weekend of meeting new people who admired and purchased my art. Considering this was my first juried venue at McMinnville, I had a wonderful reception from the patrons stopping by my booth to gander at the originals on display. I definitely enjoyed my first showing at McMinnville, Oregon.

First Thursday Fun

First Thursday at Portland's Pearl District, sponsored by www.UrbanArtNetwork.org, this past July 3rd was amazingly fun. Hundreds & hundreds of people came out in droves to enjoy & support the artist, such as myself. This was my first experience at the Pearl and what a night. Live music surrounded us all evening and the weather provided sunshine to keep my tentless art nice & dry.