June Blossoms 2008

Spring Fever or Cabin Fever

It is St Patrick's Day and we had a few snow showers this afternoon. The finches coming to the feeders  betray the weather, with a glimmer of yellow gold coming through on their feathers after months of winter drab.  I have not visited my blog for nearly two months.  The time has flown, Steve  departed and returned after a month of travel in Australia, I  happily endured the snow days and snow plows and kept the chickens fed, the dog walked, and tried to keep up with the increasing blanket of snow on the deck.   I attended art critiques, book club,  spoke as part of panel at the Miller Art Museum, swam at the Y, did gourmet ladies who lunch on a very frigid day,  worked on a new landscape, and two more still life studies, finishing several works which will be posted here later. So just when I think the winter is slow and uneventful, I look back and suddenly its spring, even the new arts guide is out for the season.   Now we have daylight savings time and talk of sand hill cranes returning.  I need to prune raspberries, get some paintings framed,  clear out the spider webs and get  going with a few projects including my garden and possibly some new hens in the coop.

 Here are some firm plans for the coming season at Chez Cheryl Art Space this year;

• June 27 Private party for artists  and friends of artists, participating in Door Prize For Portraiture 
• June 28 through July 27 Open to the Public on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday through the month of July,  11-4 each day, or by appointment. Invitations will be going out later in the spring, early summer.  I will have 21 artists this summer as part of our tribute to the portrait, Door Prize for Portraiture was conceived after one of our last trips to Australia together back in 2009. The Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney Australia was so mind-blowing, we wanted to do our own scaled down version here, so this year will be the 4th annual show.  I will write more about this at another time. 
• August- open by appointment
• September workshop    Ken Kloplack
• September workshop with Emmett Johns in Plein Air Painting
• Dining for Open Spaces, a Private Dinner Event for Door County Land Trust October 11
• date to be announced holiday open house and exhibition of work by Cheryl