Georgia Carolyn Rose August 27, 1993- November 27, 2010
December 2, 2010
She was fantastic. I truly wish you could have met her. The high
school held a service for her and Georgia's and my life
swirled together beautifully as people shared their Georgia stories
from babyhood to this past Saturday.
Her sister and I will survive this. I know for a fact my heart will
heal as it has done before with the passing of her first sister at age
10 days, 26 years ago.
God is good and generous, I feel like I've been granted a 17 year back
stage pass to the greatest rock concert ever given. I saw the costume
changes and heard the musicians warming up. She was the star and I was
her groupie.
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Faces; a show with Georgia Richards, Billie Hudson and Robin Nance
December 2, 2010
The Homewood Public Library is hosting a show of which I am proud to be a part. It is called About Face. I am joining Billie Hudson and Georgia Richards with each of us sharing our definition of faces. Billie is a potter from Louisiana. She hand builds brightly colored pots with small faces, all with their own personality, protruding all around the circumference. Georgia Richards is a photographer, She's a high school Junior with a natural gift for capturing her peers apprehension, joy and aloofness. I have contributed several paintings including one of my recent favorites. Recent in that it was finished the day before it was time to hang. The name is Dream Party 9. The first Dream Party was created in 2007 for a show in South Alabama. Amanda Blake is the current keeper of that piece. If you can make it by the library please take some time to enjoy this show.
The show with Dan Bynum at Bare Hands Gallery in Birmingham was a nice "welcome home". A big thank you to Wendy Jarvis for the invitation to hang there and another thank you James Nelson for such a nice review of the show!...
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Whoosh!
November 8, 2010
And the year flew by!
During the summer of 2009 I came to Birmingham to look for a job and make arrangements with Dona Smith for a show to hang at the Ellenburg Gallery at the Homewood Public Library for the fall of 2010. In October of that same year I came back to town and stayed with my brother. One morning, while we were out for coffee, my brother introduced me to Wendy Jarvis of Bare Hands Gallery. She invited me to have a show with Dan Bynum that would hang for 6 weeks in the fall of 2010. All of this seemed forever away but, like all time, it slipped up on me while life was forcing itself upon me. I am very happy with the way both shows turned out.
One of my favorite paintings I’ve ever done is now hanging in the Ellenburg Gallery, its called “Dream Party Nine.” This painting was inspired by a painting I did in 2007 called “Dream Party.” It isn’t the ninth of a series; the nine refers to the nine heads that occupy the canvas. I hope you can make it by there before the month is out and...
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GUMBY
January 9, 2010
The creator of Gumby died yesterday. How many of us are going to leave this world with our names unknown but what we offered with our art understood as iconic and beloved? If someone asked you what Art Clokey gave to the world would you have known Gumby? On the other hand, if someone asked you who hung out with Pokey, Who did Eddie Murphy recreate on SNL as a cigar smoking cynic? If you are my age the creation of Art Clokey will spring to mind and bring sweet and hilarious stories to mind.
Thank you Art Clokey.
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2010
January 5, 2010
I have a lot of things to do to make sure this year turns out the way I've always seen as a possibility but here in the first week of the year I feel like I'm running out of time. Am I the only person out there that feels overwhelmed right here at the beginning?
I have seven 24"x36" paintings to finish before the summer begins. I also have a bunch of other art that I haven't started (too much) thats due this fall. I will update as soon as I get something moving... and that might just be me.
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what's next
December 20, 2009
I am excited about this holiday season. 2010 looks so wonderfully promising and the Christmas and New Years coming up seems to be all I hoped my life would be. I want to be an artist, A real one, one with insight and focus to bring to the world's heart. My children are my focus. I consider them as much a part of my art as any finished canvas I've been allowed to create.
It's odd to call them children as they are 19 and 16, not quite children type ages.
Someday soon I feel like I will be a grown up with decisions made that will directly affect me forever. I'm excited. A big part of me thinks art will be revealing to me if not to anyone else. I love it all and cannot wait to see what God brings to light as the brush or pencil creates an image to contemplate.
I love my life and all it has to offer.
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The next 50 years
November 13, 2009
I am so excited about art that's in my head... its almost time to let it out. I have no idea why I feel I have to wait but my heart tells me it’s not time yet. These pieces will be collage with drawing and painting incorporated with text from books, church bulletins and junk mail. This might all get started tomorrow, maybe it'll begin tonight just not this moment. I've been cutting out text that might eventually mean something to me and some that means more to me right now than my own name.
Life is changing moment by moment. It’s become a beautiful storm, wind, rain, lightning and the heavy pressure that brings on a good sleep. In one week I'll start the second 50 years of my life. This has me so excited I can’t imagine what's coming over the horizon. Just the idea that I think I'm going to be 100 is exciting enough. I think I'm going to travel the world; I think I'm going to be a wonderful grandmother; I'm going to dance on a beautiful green hilltop in Ireland; One day I'll have a house with an empty room with a hard floor,...
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Stormy weather
November 13, 2009
I drove to the beach Monday morning when I heard that hurricane Ida was coming to visit. The rush of the wind was amazing, the waves rolling and crashing as they met the shore were beautiful. I sat on the end of a boardwalk and felt happy and fulfilled as a warmth spread over me and filled every pore. I was in the right place and I was taking it all in with every breath and every image that passed. The sand had been swept into a beautiful pattern sprinkled with bits of shell and bottle caps. Everything that was there was there for a reason and that includes me. On my way home I stopped by Burris Farm Market and had a blackberry cobbler. It was a delicious end to a delicious day
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To trust or not to trust, that is the question
November 12, 2009
Its time to move forward on big stuff. I totally trust myself . The time is now and the time is right for all kinds of stuff. I need to get out of Baldwin county. This is not the right place for my heart or me. Art has suffered, souls have suffered. I find reasons everyday why I am here. This is a magnificent part of the world, the small town I live in is a treat, my church is a family I could NEVER have had the imagination to wish for, I have beautiful, caring friends but they also know its time for me to go.
My children have grown up here but feel Jefferson county is home. Its time to go home for all of us.
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...
September 29, 2009
Life is forever changing. At some point you have to stop being an observer and start working on making it what you need it to become. I am frozen right now. For too long I have waited for someone else to make decisions for me. I have hoped someone else would do what I felt was the right choice for me. I am almost 50 years old; I wonder when I thought I would be old enough to make these decisions on my own? I have laid blame on others and sited their controlling nature as to why I had to suffer through their decisions for my life. About 2 years ago I made a big leap forward in plans for my future only to have it thwarted by another person's idea about what I needed to do. Insecurity and guilt have been my rulers and I am attempting to push past them to give that job to God. I figure if God can make the universe he can certainly help me take back my life from people's ideas about what is best for me. So here I go. We shall see how this works out for me and those...
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