Here is a big "catch up" post. I've been doing some of the blue pen drawings. I've been working on top of both found pages and in a couple of sketchbooks. I went to Marlene's open studio. Her studio is spare and beautifully lit by the sun that comes in from her big windows. I went to a meditation retreat and a cool shop in Peterborough, New Hampshire...The Red Chair.
We visited my favorite gallery in Maine, or maybe anywhere. It is the Leighton Gallery in Blue Hill. I love the freshness of the white walls and floors, the mix of paintings and sculpture, and the sculpture garden. I wish I could capture the way the sun falls in through the windows and the way Judith Leighton has edited what she hangs to express what I imagine is a philosophy about color and surface quality in paintings. It is always an exciting experience for me.
Somebody asked me the other day what I like about these blue pen drawings. I like how each drawing is complete unto itself, and does not have to be worked on a number of levels like my paintings. I like being finished with each one and then having a new, fresh, unknown possibility in front of me. I like how portable they are. They are like intuitive paintings...a practice in the process of letting come whatever comes. I find when I am finished they do have meaning to me.
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