I'm not complaining about lack of space or formidable studio conditions. Somehow it's working for me. If I had a posh studio, maybe I'd sit around and eat lemon tarts from Trader Joe's all day, so maybe unconventional has been good. I think about that. Like seriously, what if the only thing I had to do was paint? Would it work? What would drive me if I had nothing to maintain?
Based upon the recent review about Leon Kossoff's cherry tree paintings and Michael Abram's landscapes of the Hudson Valley, I think I'm seeing a fantasy group exhibition develop. There's a shared sensibility having to do with Place, a specific or particular place, as opposed to a scene. And since it's a fantasy exhibition, I'll be curating myself into it. I've known people to hobnob for worse.
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I hear the call of Hudson Valley as well. It's to the tune Bali Hai.
Everyday I look across my rental backyard at the most perfect barn that is not ours, It smells of perfect studio, although its NH and not hudson valley I want to kidnap it for myself. I check my mailbox everyday to see if I have been rejected (or not) for the P/K grant, its been 6 months. I like being in the unknown time a little.
I like working with what I have, making the best of it, it never stops me from painting, but i need more space in general and more paint.
i like those beams in the photo
lemon tarts would end up in your paintings
I'm in the middle of the PK process. Good luck to you. I just need to commit to getting rid of some furniture in my LR. Growing up in this house, I've been slow to make drastic changes. I need fresh eyes every so often, and a no fear 'tude, and some movers.
lemon tarts, yes.
Carla, it's like the Song of The Sirens to me. I'm wary of the reality.
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