While Mr. F and I are camping in Yosemite, I’m resharing some posts you might have missed the first go ’round! Enjoy! Just the other day, I was saying to Mr. Forager, “Can you believe it’s been almost two…
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Kickin’ off a new month with a holiday ( for most of us ) and a new Featured Artist, you say? Well, I’ll take that! I’m excited to feature the abstract work of South Florida artist Brenda Hope Zappitell all…
Being an artist can be a lonely endeavor. We’re often toiling away alone in the studio for hours, even days at a time! And while we usually need that solitary time to work out our thoughts and feelings into…
In his book, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky wrote of a corresponding vibration happening in the heart upon the receipt of an abstract impression. To me, that is what the best abstract painting does, sets up a vibration…
Mr. F and I often find ourselves struggling between our love of the seaside and the snow. Snow makes us absolutely giddy, but spending this spring and summer near the ocean perhaps has us leaning toward a life near…
Mr. F and I have a secret spot, a place that he found one summer and fell in love with, that is kind of our dreamland. It’s an amazingly beautiful, far out, off the grid place that we don’t…
One thing I’ve learned since living in the Northwest? Going to the beach in Washington, Oregon & Northern California is a completely different experience than it was back in Florida! Rocks instead of sand, bigger, wilder waves, and fewer…
by Ellen C. Caldwell G-Five, Plastic Attack, 2013 (rice fields installation view); plastic bottles and metal frames; 2 meters high. Courtesy of the Artists. Photo: G-Five Art Management. Something is in the air in Bali. As I was interviewing…
For the first thirty-something years of this Florida girl’s life, I never really experienced mountains. And when I did, it was only the foothills of the Smokies. Then I visited Mr. F while he was living in Seattle and…
Whenever Mr. F and I are away from the coastal Northwest for a long period of time, I find that what I miss most is the mossy trees and fern covered forest floors. These “Muppet trees”, as I like…