Just a little preview for m show in Lancaster

A few people have asked me which of my paintings are available for purchase and for how much, so I've decided to create a post specifically to answer that question. Here are some paintings that are currently at the David Ericson Fine Art Gallery in Salt Lake City. The first two are 29x34 inches plus the frames of solid Hemlock. They are wrap style frames that my husband made...they have a sort of architectural/Arts and Crafts style feel to them. They are both interpretive landscapes inspired by some photos I took while hiking to see some old Indian ruins in Chaco Canyon. There was this magnificent bush, small in the scheme of things not small for a bush…much taller than me and so confident and thriving all alone in its world. Wise and happy….it has seen many moons and years and understands the eternal concepts of the light that cannot be explained by any known language. The other one is called called ‘Between Space and Time’. We were walking along a ridge to the one side was a sort of wide gully, all dry and sandy with the desert foliage coming through. Then there was this small patch of big cottonwood trees, there in the middle of the desert, all dark and shady underneath. That contrast in the desert always takes my breath away. I just want to stay and live there, in the cottonwoods, going out often under the desert sun to soak it up. These two large paintings are each $825.00.

This painting, $520.00, is 18x24 inches, plus the frame. The frame is another wrap style frame of hemlock but stained dark. At Spirit Lake in the Uinta Mountains there used to be an old wooden sign. That sign is gone now but I have a picture of it there by the lake, which inspired this painting, called ’Spirit Warning’.

These next two paintings are 2 of 8 8x10 inch paintings inspired by the gulley between Draper and Riverton where hundreds of Russian Olive trees thrive surrounded by the bleached yellow/white summer grasses that are all over north and central Utah. It has a thin umber colored frame. They are $200.00 each.

These next 7 paintings are on the Red Raven Art Company website Red Raven is my gallery in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Lancaster has quite the art community, with two art institutes in the city, and lots of art loving people.. Their First Fridays are amazing. Droves of people come out in any weather every First Friday…the streets with the galleries are packed, and in every one its practically standing room only. After exploring I decided I liked the flavor of Red Raven for my paintings. I gave them a portfolio and resume happily they took me on. My show there last March did well and I’m scheduled for one in July and one next June. (Yay!) Its such a happy thing for me to have a shows to paint for….I love Red Raven. A lot of my paintings are inspired by the woods near my home. I love using the trees separating panels of color, almost like stained glass. The theme on the surface is light, filtered, but I hope they communicate much more and inspire a peaceful place to go visually. I want them to have the power to transport one physically, as art can. At least that’s how it works for me. A poem or painting, or other artistic creation hits me just so and it is almost like an out of body experience.

This one is called Tiffany’s Reflection. I named it that because it just felt to me like my friend Tiffany…the essence of her energy and spirit. Tiffany is a dear friend who passed away a little over 2 years ago. This painting is 16x20 inches and in a really beautiful walnut frame and is $480.00

This one is also 16x20 inches not including the walnut frame and is $480 .00 An owl broke through, and lit on one of my trees. I first saw him when I was out running one morning. I started my run at the crack of dawn, but the sky was overcast and it was pretty dark still, and even more so during the one part of my route thats forest on both sides and overhead. There was a pair of beautiful big shadowy owls swooping back and forth over my head as I ran. I hear them at night but haven’t ever been lucky enough to see them…and so close. Very cool. One stopped and lit on a branch, watching me as I ran past. I know he’ll be back again in another painting, and there is some reason for him there that I’ll begin to understand.

This one is called ‘Morning Shadows‘, inspired by a dirt path I run by on my owl run. In the blue panel on the top right, if you look closely, there is some texture and depth, using a warm blue by a cool blue. I’m thinking of how full the air is…full of sounds and smells and energies from more than one dimension. From both the seen world and the unseen world. It is another 16x20 inch painting with a walnut frame. I love walnut. My husband makes all my frames. $480.00

I think this composition has an Arts & Crafts, turn of the century woodcut kind of feeling to it. I was gratified when a friend at Red Raven voiced the same observation, though I hadn’t out loud. Its called ‘Pivotal’ and is 11x14 inches, and in an oak frame stained a very dark red-brown. $300.00

This is one that hung in the December group show at Red Raven. It’s a wintry one called ‘Solstice’, measuring 11x14 inches plus the frame, which is oak stained the dark red-brown color. $300.00

This 24x30 inch painting has been in a few juried shows. It’s 24x30, plus the frame, so it’s a little bigger. Its in a wrap style frame made of walnut. Its called ‘Sun Blown’. $640.00

This little painting is called ‘Sentinel Watch‘. I entered it into a juried show near my home. I also entered a large figure painting, hoping to get an award with it. We could enter 3 paintings for the price of one entry fee. The juror accepted both this little 8x10 painting as well as the figure painting. But he gave the little painting the award, not the big one. He called it a ’gem of painting’. The figure painting did however get the ’People’s Choice’ award, however so I was both surprised and satisfied. This one has an oak frame stained dark . $200.00

These next several paintings are waiting to go in a show this year if their not sold first, most really recent and hanging on my walls, just waiting. I have a show at the Ragged Edge here in Gettysburg in April, and then at the Red Raven in July.

I thought this one was finished when I posted it in December but it has evolved since then. I like where it’s taken me. Its called ‘Fall Prism’. it has lots of texture and lots of glazing. 16x20 inches with a walnut frame, $480.00

I’ve done a few paintings inspired by this white bench in my backyard. I want this one to feel like an Autumn moonlit night. 16x20 inches and $480.00

Here is a wintry one called Somewhere Silent Morning, measuring 16x20 inches and in an oak frame stained dark red-brown. $480.00

This one is called ‘One Soft Summer’. Its an intimate 11x14 inches, with an oak frame stained dark. $300.00

‘Forest Parlor’ ,11x14 inches and a wrap style walnut frame. $300.00.

‘Light Breeze’, 11x14 inches in a wrap style walnut frame. $300.00

These next two figure paintings I finally painted after thinking about them for years. I know I’ve posted them before this year. When my daughter was 9 and 10 she created a world in which dwelt elves and sprites, and every fairy creature. She wrote two small novels about them. The main characters were called Willow Sprites and they dwelt in the forest. I have long wanted to paint her world. I finally did this year, using her as my model. She’s 15 now. The first of these two paintings is called ‘Sprengh’, a celtic, or Middle English spelling of the word Spring. It’s 34x34 inches with a wrap style poplar frame and is $900.00 The second is called ‘First Green’ and is 24x30 inches, also in a wrap style poplar frame for $700.00

'Sprengh' 34x34 inches poplar frame $900.00

First Green 24 x 30 inches poplar frame $700.00

So this is one of my chair paintings called ‘Blue Silk’. It’s on ‘sale’ because it has had a repair. It is perfectly sound but because of the repair I don’t think I would ever use it for a show. I need wall space so I’m selling it for $100.00 plus shipping, so $125.00 altogether. it’s a very nice painting, one of my husband’s favorites. It is 24x30 inches and in a wrap style frame.

'Blue Silk' 24x30 inches solid walnut frame $100.00

These two are interpretive mountain landscapes with quaking aspen. I thought they made a nice pair so I’m selling them together. As you can see they are painted around the sides instead of having frames. They’re 11x14 inches, and are $200.00 each. I guess they don’t have to be sold together…but together they are $300.00. (Another ’sale’)

'Sentinels' and 'First Passage' 11x14 inches $200.00 each or $300.00 together