Well, art
just keeps happening around here especially for Martha.
Since
returning to town from our holiday adventures out of state and out of the
country Martha has been busy as all get out with art projects, classes and planning
meetings for even more such art related events.
Her newest
art work includes some of the most powerful and dramatic paintings that I have
seen from her for some time. One of these new works in particular just jumps
right out at you and hits you with a real deep since of importance. It just
screams out with a sense of awareness, thought and, I think, an emotion of ‘Isolation’,
even before one truly grasps the subject. And, she has just finished a similarly
powerful painting of a ‘Garifuna Woman’. Both of these works were inspired by
our recent trip to Roatan, Honduras in Central America.
These works right
along with and juxtaposed to some very pleasing and lighthearted horse
paintings, a painting of girl with flowers and several paintings of nurturing
mothers with children just goes to show the various styles and variety of emotional
expression that Martha is capable of depicting in her art.
On the busy
artist in the community front, she, just this week attended a planning meeting
for the upcoming Art Lovers Sunday at the Pybus Public Market to be held on
February 9th. Martha will be
one of the artists participating in the event as well. She’ll have her newly created hand painted
hand bags and a few small paintings for sale and will be offering a free self
portrait / drawing class for kids while she is there.
Also, this week
she attended a planning meeting at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural
Center for the new Youth Art Room which they hope to have up and running by this
April. And, if all of that were not
enough, Martha was just appointed to be on the City Arts Commission for the
City of Wenatchee which will mean monthly meetings and the opportunity to have
a real voice in the planning of various art projects throughout the city.
I don’t know
how she does it but this week she also taught an art class for a group of
Brownies at the Sunnyslope Elementary School in Wenatchee and just last night
held a small art class for kids here at the home studio. Whew! I’m tired just
thinking about it.
This week
too we picked up her art from Lemolo’s Café in Wenatchee and a nice check as
well for one of her works (“Inflorescence”) that sold while we were out of
town. This past week I too had to pick up artwork from a long standing show at
the Confluence Technology Center as they will be doing some remodeling and painting
around the area where my work was showing. Some of these pieces my end up going
into my upcoming show at the Black Bird Bistro in Leavenworth. I was to be
featured in February, but due to scheduling issues my show was postponed till
March.
This coming month
Martha will be teaching an art sculpture class, ‘Modeling the Human Form’ CED
585, at the Wenatchee Valley Community College on February 11th and
18th from 6 to 8pm each night and will be teaching a ‘Confidence in
Art’ class at the Icicle Arts Gallery in Leavenworth on February 8th
from 12-4pm.
Well, that’s
probably enough for now. So; keep being creative in every way you can and
remember the words of Henri Matisse who said, “A work of art must
carry within itself its complete significance and impose that upon the beholder
before he recognizes the subject matter.” Wow! Now that is something to ponder.
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