Friday Easel

Les Deux Gingembres 12x12"

 

Spending time with the pooches today.

Thursday Easel

Today I'm working in the Utah Desert, visiting Hite Country in my studio while listening to audible books. It sure feels like the desert with this early heat.

 Hite Country, Utah 12x48" in progress ©2015

Worktable Wednesday - at the easel

...well, trying to be. Plenty of distractions to go around this fall and not enough time in the studio. Still.... I'm working this week and starting new paintings for upcoming deadlines. These are just the first pass, getting the drawings right before really diving in.

Mule Deer, Dixie National Forest,Utah ©

Wee Birdie ©

California Bushtit ©

Worktable Wednesday - Dreaming of Coastal Fog

in progress, variations on a theme ©2014

Worktable Wednesday

On the easel today, new winter water vertical

Worktable Wednesday 2014

A new year, a new start. 

New oil sketches on the easel.

It feels good to be back at work.

First Thursday November

It's the final reception for NEW TERRAIN tonight at Sullivan Goss in Santa Barbara. The show runs through the end of the month.

Currently I'm preparing paintings for holiday shows both in Santa Barbara and Santa Monica. More information soon!

Hope to see you tonight. 5-730 at 11 East Anapamu Street, SB.

Solo show on the horizon

The NEW TERRAIN show cards are here and will be winging their way in the mail during the next week. If you are wanting something good in your post box send me word and I'll be happy to make sure you get one. Or you can stop by FRAME at 901 De La Vina and collect one, say hello to Elaine. She can give you the scoop on the show as she has had a sneak preview!

Hope to see you all at the gallery First Thursday September 5th from 5-8pm.

Sullivan Goss

11 East Anapamu Santa Barbara!

Sundance + paintings

Refugio Road 12x12" + cool chair

New Year Sky 18x40" + beautiful sideboard

See more paintings and furniture at Sundance online HERE

Worktable Wednesday

It's astonishing that anything is being completed in my studio at present ... husband Bill has other ideas about what I should be doing with my time... like helping put the new roof on. YES I am a roofer by day and painter/printer by night. IF, that is, I can still lift my arms to hold a brush or even stand on my wobbly legs after a day on the pitched roof.

Still... there are shows coming, the fall is full and deadlines approach so there is no help for it but to suck it up and keep working despite the weary joints and muscles.

Shows on the horizon:

15 year anniversary show at FRAME with the lovely and fabulous Elaine Esbeck. Opening October, 11, 2012.  {that's 10/11/12 people} Announcements forthcoming.

Annual 100 GRAND show at Sullivan Goss opening First Thursday in December.

New work will be arriving at Sundance in the coming months and the possibility of something for the annual Small Images show at the local City College for October.

There is certainly plenty to be getting on with and many stamps yet to be made for the holiday crush that is also creeping up. I know, now I've gone and said it, Christmas is coming. Ho ho ho.

Don't forget to stop in and see all the new shows at Sullivan Goss. Elemental: Water, the Fall Salon, Ken Bortolazzo Equipose and Martha Erlebacher.

Worktable Wednesday

Today is an easel day.

Gone to the dogs

Scenes from my studio... all paintings in progress. 

I've become a dog lady and I ain't too proud to admit it!

Skye at the beach ©2012 N Strasburg

Snow dogs © 2012 N Strasburg

Molly on the Turkish rug ©2012 N Strasburg

Worktable Wednesday

new snow paintings started, snow and dogs and then more snow

my work table... still a happy organized mess

new woodblock in process

See more woodblock images HERE

Worktable Wednesday

Back at the easel this week.

Final Week: Islands Valleys Home

Sunday, February 26th is the last day to see the exhibition at Sullivan Goss. My babies will be coming home to the fold on Monday while they await their next destination. Still! There are FIVE more days to see them singing on the walls at Sullivan Goss. The gallery is open 930am-530pm every day at 11 East Anapamu. Have lunch at the Arts and Letters Cafe and visit the paintings one last time.

Winter Storm Break 40x58" ©2012

Good start to the new year

Winter Shoreline Quad  15x72" oil on birch ©2012

The first painting finished in 2012 is a commission headed back East. It's a modification of a painting from 2009 titled Winter Surf. It will now get boxed tenderly and await it's journey to New York.

on and on

Great news! for those who have yet to see the exhibit at Sullivan Goss. The February schedule had an opening which needed filling. Through the generosity of the gallery Islands Valleys Home will remain on the wall one more month.

Valley Twilight 24 x 48"  oil on birch panel

The paintings have been rehung and the exhibition reconfigured, everything looks brand new and a fresh perspective on the remaining works. You can see the show through February 26th.

Much thanks and gratitude to Sullivan Goss.

Gallery at 11 East Anapamu at State Street.  805 730 1460

Celebrate art

in the new year. First Thursday events tonight at Sullivan Goss. The 100 Grand Show is still up and full of gems to take home. Islands Valleys Home is up for one more month and tonight is the final reception.

AND there is a new artist to see in the gallery Leon Dabo, drawings on view starting tonight.

Columbia River 16x72" oil on birch ©2012

Hope to see you tonight!

Sullivan Goss

11 East Anapamu

Receptions from 5-8pm

Islands Valleys Home

Thank you Joe Woodard! A lovely review of Islands Valleys Home still on view through the end of January with one more reception, First Thursday in the new year!



Happy merry holy days to you and yours.

Show Update

It's hard to believe another month is almost gone and only one month left of 2011.

Islands Valleys Home has been on the walls at Sullivan Goss for 24 days, just a few short weeks. The opening was wonderfully packed, full of friends and family, clients and artists. I feel blessed by the turn out and ever grateful for all the support.

The show will be up through the holidays and on until the end of January. There is plenty of time to enjoy the island images, the local foothill grasses and the ever changing skyscapes.

Don't forget! this Thursday, December 1st is the second of three receptions for the exhibit. I will be there with my babies and a new piece that will hang with the 100 GRAND exhibit in the front room.

Here are a few shots from the gallery to entice you to come see the paintings in person.

 

Big grid of 12x12" gems of the coast

Hope to see you Thursday evening 5-8 pm

Sulllivan Goss

  11 East Anapamu Santa Barbara