"DOORS" exhibition at Fraker/Scott Gallery opens in Seattle this week...

"Sacred Door", one of my  mixed media pieces with collage, acrylic and assemblage, will be showing in downtown Seattle at Fraker/Scott Gallery during the month of August. This group exhibition, featuring intriguing door-inspired artwork, will include some innovative, new assemblage works as well. Don't miss it! Come on down to First Thursday Art Walk this Thursday, August 4 (5-8 p.m.), and find out from the artists–in person–what inspires them!

Fraker/Scott Gallery is located at 121 Prefontaine Place So., in the historical neighborhood of Pioneer Square in Seattle, Washington. For more information about hours and events, please visit:

http://www.frakerscottgallery.com

See you at Art Walk!

The development of an idea...

Above: Original idea

Progression of an idea. This encaustic painting is about the "primordial and spiritual" experience of being female. The handwritten quote "underneath" the wax is an excerpt from "The Thunder, Perfect Mind", taken from the Nag Hammadi Library (The Gnostic Society Library). Fascinating reading, by the way.

The quote starts out with "I was sent forth from the power..." According to expert Elaine Pagels, it was "...spoken in the voice of a feminine divine power."

(Blogger isn't allowing me to arrange the photos in order of progression, but you get the idea.)

New Work!

New work...12x12 encaustic with mixed media, sand, metallic pigments, ink, photographs. It is called "Aloe Quietly Breathing", inspired by a haiku that I wrote:

Filtered sun through glass
Aloe quietly breathing–
Winter waits outside.

See this work in person at Fraker/Scott Gallery's "12x12" group show, opening TODAY, November 4 (First Thursday Art Walk is 5-8 p.m.) and running through December 31 in downtown Seattle! (see my sidebar)

The show starts September 14!

Design of poster by Kathleen Johnson.

Experimental Wednesday

This is what I did yesterday with the Experimental Painting group that meets once a month in my neighborhood. I was working with collage materials, light-weight spackle (with plastic stencils for texture), and acrylic washes. It was truly satisfying to work next to some new creative souls, and to enter into the "I don't know" realm of conciousness. Needs more work...

By the way, light-weight spackle is a wonderful, cheap alternative to Golden's Molding Paste (it's more like the Light Molding Paste), but after it dries, it must be sealed by either gesso or acrylic medium. Then you can proceed to paint over it. It dries very quickly, so it's great for one-session experiments. I LOVE getting my fingers into that stuff, takes me back to childhood.