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| watercolor on clayboard, 6x8, 2012 SOLD |
| "California Rolls", detail |
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| watercolor on clayboard 6x6, 2012, scratched, part of the "Sushi in the Fish Plate" series |
Welcome to Stow Studio, 2013!
This
year, I have a solo show of recent selected works at the Autumn Cafe in Oneonta May 7 through June 8, and tentatively
have a piece included in Cooperstown Art Association's annual regional "Essential Art" show, running from
May 3 through May 31. I will also have several pieces in CAA's Annual Miniature Invitational Show, "Postcards
from Cooperstown", from June 7 through July 5. I will be exhibiting in the 18th Annual Stagecoach Run Arts Festival
in Treadwell, NY July 6 & 7 and in the City of the Hills Art Festival (Oneonta) September 14.
With a
background in traditional and representational watercolor, I also paint expressions of the inner landscape of the personal
and collective Soul. I love Asian and decorative paper, and use them in my work with increasing frequency. Recently, I have
been enjoying working with acrylics and plan on doing some barn, landscape and still life in acrylic and/or collage with papers.
I have also been painting more En Plein Air, and will be joining various regional Plein Air groups in outings. I
like to think of these multiple styles of painting and subject matter as painting what is within and what is external;
I feel a need to express both. I need the balance.
I majored in studio art at the State University of New York
at Oneonta in the 80's. Between 1988 and 2000, I attended workshops at Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro,
Massachusetts and at the Provincetown (Mass) Art Association with Cape and visiting artists. In 2007 and 2008 I attended
week-long visionary art intensives with Alex and Allyson Grey at Omega Institute ( see the Alex Grey link), and in 2008 and
2009 I completed my training in Peruvian-based energy medicine ( see the Four Winds link) at Omega. Both new endeavors are
in the pursuit of accessing the unseen energy world and bringing it to visual form for individual and collective healing.
In 2012 I participated in the Canandaigua Plein Air Competition in June and I had a solo exhibit, "The
Beauty of Lake Atitlan", in November at the Community Arts Network of Oneonta (formerly UCCCA) in the Wilbur Mansion
which featured my plein air and studio works from my 2010 Guatemala trip. I also had a few pieces in Cooperstown
Art Association's invitational Miniature Show, "Bite-Sized", in June and July. I received the second place
award for watercolors at Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival.
In 2011, I exhibited in Cooperstown
Art Association's annual "Essential Art" and received the 'Carefree Gardens' award. I was also
included in their annual invitational show, "Fur, Fins & Feathers". I was part of a four-woman exhibit, "Four
Queens", at Studio Dionysus in Gilbertsville, NY.
I exhibit annually in Stagecoach Run Arts
Festival in Treadwell, NY, City of the Hills Fine Art Festival in Oneonta, NY, and the Art & Soul of the Catskills Arts
Festival in Delhi, NY.
I also teach watermedia/collage workshops in the summer in the Northern Catskills.
Recent solo exhibits include:
"Chickens, Goats & Visions: Recent Works" at the Autumn Cafe in Oneonta, Through February, 2010, "Swimming
With the Goddess" (with Kim L'Heureux)at the Upper Catskills Community Center for the Arts, Oneonta, (UCCCA) in 2007,
"Watercolors of New Mexico and Other Recent Works" at the Autumn Cafe in Oneonta in 2006, "New Ground- Works
on Clayboard" at the Cooperstown Art Association in 2006, "Around Town- Oneonta's Architecture Modified by Nature"
in 2004, "A Watercolor Sampler (with Carolyn Neidlinger)at the Frank W. Cyr Center, Stamford, NY, in 2004. See
my exhibit and bio page for detailed information.
My originals, prints and cards can be found year-round at the
Artisans Guild in Oneonta and at the Catskills Artisan Guild in Margaretville, NY, and I sell cards at the Green Earth
Market in Oneonta.
Enjoy my site, stop back to see what's new! Feel free to email
me, just type 'stow studio' in the subject line. Also, my home studio is open by appointment. Please note that all
images are copyrighted and may not be used without my permission.
The Catsguild of Margaretville, NY
Check out Alex Grey's site here
Learn about Peruvian energy medicine here:
Exhibits, Full Biography
My Gallery
The Archives (older artwork)
| "Soul Seeding" |
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| 8x10 watercolor on clayboard, scratched 2009 |
| "Be As Thou Art" |
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| 8x10 watercolor on clayboard, scratched 2009, commission |
| GATE-KEEPER watercolor on clayboard 2006 |
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| inspired from a dream. Sold |
| "Chicken Sampler" |
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| 2009 watercolor on clayboard 8x10 |
| "Tulip in a Red Pitcher", detail |
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| 2012 watercolor on clayboard, scratched, 12x12 |
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18th Annual Stagecoach Run Fine Arts Festival in Treadwell, NY
Cooperstown Art Association Events
Community Art Network of Oneonta CANO (formerly UCCCA), info about the City of the Hills Art Festival
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| "Efts, Adult Aquatic Stage" 8x10 watercolor on paper, 2012 |
| "Las Frutas" |
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| 2011, watercolor on clayboard, 5x7 SOLD 5x7 open edition prints available |
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My sons live in San Pedro La Laguna, on
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala for half the year. In 2010, I visited there, returning in the winter of 2013 for a month. It is said
by many, including Aldous Huxley, to be ‘the most beautiful lake in the world’. Adding to the incredible experience
is the beauty of the Mayan lake culture itself with its bronze and colorfully-clad inhabitants, who speak the Mayan T'zutujil
with Spanish as a second language, and many who still wear the traditional woven attire. My oldest son has been wintering there for over ten years, and is a 'regular',
with the Peneleu/Gonzales family who 'adopted' him so many years ago. Because of this, my visit included being taken
in as family! Taking my paints with
me as usual, I painted a series of plein air watercolors and took a lot of pictures from which I painted a number of works.
These are some of the pieces from the show.
Selected pieces from this show plus some plein air paintings I completed
there this winter will be hung at The Autumn Cafe, Oneonta, in May 2013.
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| "Bouganvilla" |
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| 5x7 plein air watercolor on clayboard, scratched, 2010 |
| "Lakeside Morning" |
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| 5x7 acrylic, SOLD |
| "Volcans San Pedro Y Toliman" |
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| 3x5 plein air watercolor, 2010 |
| "Juana's Kitchen", detail |
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| 16x20 acrylic 2012 |
| "San Marcos Volcano View" |
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| 5x7 acrylic 2012 SOLD |
| "Dawn Volcanos" |
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| 3x5 plein air watercolor 2010 |
| "El Mercado" |
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| plein air watercolor, 10x7, 2010 |
| "Embarcadero de Panajachel" |
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| 7x10 plein air watercolor 2010, SOLD |
| "Embarcadero de Santiago Atitlan" |
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| plein air watercolor, San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, 2010 |
| "La Tendera", detail |
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| 18x24 acrylic, 2012 |
| "Frutas Y Mais" |
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| 5x7 watercolor scratched, begun as plein air, 2011 |
| "Coffee Bud", detail |
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| 5x7 watercolor 2012 |
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