More on Georgia O’Keeffe

Fascinating book on Georgia O’Keeffe. I’ve finished the book now and I thoroughly enjoyed it, I will read it again very soon. I always read a good book too fast, and have to read again and then it feels like I get a second book.
Something Georgia said, who never painted living creatures, rang a bell [...]

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Georgia O’Keeffe

I picked up this book at Ponsonby Books a couple of weeks ago and started reading it last night – and it is great, inspiring. “Portrait of an Artist, a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe” by Laurie Lisle. I haven’t read much on this artist but so far I am very intrigued by her story, [...]

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Trust the Process

Our studio space is confirmed at long last! Just waiting for the lease to be completed, and the painting and partitions to be done.
Meanwhile at Painter’s Project on Monday afternoons, Matthew has given us two chapters from the book ‘Trust the process’, one about Mistakes and Distortions  – ‘errors are harbingers of original ideas because [...]

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Yvonne George, ceramic artist

After many years in Central Florida and now in central North Carolina, Yvonne has an extensive award winning clay background.  She has studied with many nationally known ceramic artists such as Pete Kuentzel, Bennett Bean, Rudy Autio, Jim Romberg, Andrea Gill, Yoshiro Ikeda and Don Reitz.
A gallery artist for almost 30 years, Yvonne [...]

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2009 TCAC Emerging Artist Awards

One of the people that I did my last year’s Painter’s Studio course with at Artstation is a finalist in the 2009 TCAC Emerging Artist Awards – Linda Dixon.
Opens Thursday 25th JUNE 6 – 8 pm  until Sunday 9th JULY and you can see the finalists here. And pictured is Linda Dixon’s great painting. [...]

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