Fanfare, please . . . Angel’s Trumpet, Brugmansia suaveleons, is finally printed and ready to be framed for inclusion in my upcoming exhibit, As Potent as a Charm. The fanfare because the sketches were complete in August!
A fresh tomato at the end of October? Thanks to the mild temperatures the growing season extended into fall this year allowing for a few extra weeks to enjoy home grown goodies, including one last tomato.
image: detail from Bittersweet, relief print
Three prints from the ‘pod’ series were recently loaned to the Akron Community Foundation. Each features a linocut print within a woodcut of a pod from the Chinese Lantern plant.
left to right: Peas + Pod, Skeleton, Lantern Plant
Many thanks to Chris Miller for the invitation – along with pick-up, delivery and installation!
image: Lantern Plant, woodcut/linocut
Tags: Chinese Lantern plant, linocut, printmaking, relief print, woodcut
Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea
“The operation of this herb, internally taken, is often violent, even in small doses: it is best therefore not to meddle with it, lest the cure should end in the churchyard.”
Nicholas Culpeper (1616 – 1654)
Tags: as potent as a charm, digitalis, foxglove, linocut, printmaking, relief print
New exhibits are underway at Summit Artspace:
the BOX gallery is featuring Reborn, a group show curated by Annette Yoho Feltes, and Dollar $igns, collages by Shirley Ende-Saxe.
In the first floor Summit Artspace Gallery, Meg Harris of Harris Stanton Gallery is collaborating with Summit Artspace to present Full Circle.
Full Circle
Summit Artspace Gallery
Reborn
Dollar $igns
the BOX gallery
October 16 through November 22, 2015
Summit Artspace
140 East Market Street
Akron, Ohio
gallery hours: Saturday & Sunday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
update: October 30, 2015, Akron Beacon Journal review of exhibits
SummitLive365, a portal for artists, venues, performers, organizations and creators is now up and running. The site is a product of ArtsNow, a non-profit organization founded in July of 2015 with the purpose of connecting arts, culture and community in Summit County Ohio. The directory for visual artists is a welcome resource, too: Joan Colbert on SummitLive365.
Making leaf prints at last week’s workshop was inspiring, even for the instructor! This Castor Bean, Ricinus communis, leaf was printed with oil base ink on mulberry hosho.
Tags: as potent as a charm, castor bean, leaf print, printmaking, relief print, ricinus communis
Really, who wants to be outside bloomin’ all night when it’s so chilly? Last night’s drop in temperatures did not please the queen – her slow motion opening act lasted well into the day. The visiting bee probably couldn’t believe such good fortune!
The last three buds on the night blooming cereus, Epiphyllum oxypetalum, probably won’t open – it is October after all. Next week she will move to her winter residence, AKA the basement.
Tags: cereus, epiphyllum, honeybee
