Celebrating Another Art Show
This past weekend was my second year to participate in the big juried art show called “ArtXtravaganza”.
It was the very first sale of the show that will always stick out in my mind. A beautiful black woman, with a quiet, soulful spirit came by my work, and lingered over one particular abstract. She then left to take in the rest of the show, but it was not long before she circled back and said, “I have to have ‘Ebenezer’”.
Here is the abstract titled “Ebenezer” :
24x24” abstract, oil and gold leaf on triple primed mdf board
She asked me “why the name Ebenezer”, and held my gaze as I told her how that in ancient Israel, whenever God stepped in to mightily help His people, they would often build a memorial, and call it an “Ebenezer”. The idea would be to always remember, and remember to tell the story of the miraculous help of God to their children, and to their children’s children.
I told this new collector, “I have been through some things in the last four years. And God has mightily helped me.”
Looking forward to more shows this year and next. It has been nothing but a joy to connect “IRL” and in person, over online. It is so satisfying to not need social media (though I still have a presence there, and always will), and to sell locally. It is by far my favorite way to meet collectors.
Fresh From the Easel {...and headed to my second big juried art show!}
This painting began as pure inspiration, even before the leaves were fully out on the trees this past late-winter, in the form of the daily walks my husband and I take in the mornings, in a beautiful meadow.
As winter gave way to spring, and as spring matured into summer, I could not get enough of the lavish beauty of this place. It’s full of Queen Anne’s Lace, trumpet vine, passion flower, daisies, moon flowers, and berries. I had to paint it.
This beauty is a big 24x48” original, rendered in oil, on triple primed mdf board, which just happens to be my favorite surface upon which to use oil paints. The Preacher will be hand crafting a float frame for it. I have not titled it yet.
There are at least 4 open inquiries on it, so far. I’m willing to sell it, but I’m even more willing to bring it to my Artsclamation art show* this fall, where it will sell. I think this one is just about the prettiest thing I ever painted, so far.
And it’s okay to say so. How dare I offer anything to you, hoping that it be cherished by you, hoping that it adorn your personal space, if I do not feel absolutely over-the-moon about it?
I wouldn’t do it.
*This is a link to a promotional video from last year, 2022.
Contact me here, to open your own inquiry. (Just a fancy way of saying I tell you the price, you decide if you want it, and we work out shipping details. This one will have to be crated, and I do offer small discounts to help offset the cost of crate shipping.)