To Feast on Clouds
We are officially in summer and I have lots of work to do. Deadlines have kept me in my studio, nose to the easel and developing cyanotypes on these sunny days.
SAVE THE DATE
for my solo show
To Feast on Clouds
Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara
JULY 28TH THROUGH SEPTEMBER 25TH
1st Thursday reception August 3rd
Get to see the work first and claim your piece before the show opens!
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If you have visited the studio in the past year, you have witnessed the massing collection of cloudscapes and perhaps you flipped through my sketchbooks from the White Buffalo Land Trust residency. The day of the big reveal is almost here. The culmination of all my efforts will soon be on the wall at Sullivan Goss in Santa Barbara.
“59. November is National Cloud month”, oil on silver, 15x 22.5”
This is the biggest piece in the collection. Each piece is named after a line from the poem, 89 Clouds by Mark Strand.
This collection of cloudscapes encourage conversations about water, whether there is drought or flood and its impact on our survival. Many of the cloudscapes are painted on silverware, a substrate with a history of food service. Reimagined as a cloudscape painting, these pieces remind us that water is essential for growing the food we consume.
“25. A cloud with out you is only a clod”, oil on glass, 2.5 x 2.5 “
This is the smallest piece in the collection
The Farmer’s Almanac Series, ready to get framed for the show!
This series is shaped by my time as resident artist on the White Buffalo Land Trust's Jalama Canyon Ranch. The organization practices and fosters regenerative farming methods, many of which can be traced to practices before the advent of corporate farming.
The gouache vignettes are painted on 1866 Farmer's Almanac pages that were reproduced on water color paper. The almanac page floats on top of a cyanotype with botanicals sourced from the ranch and photographs that appear to be from another time.