Is November 9 on your calendar?

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November 9 is circled on my calendar!  I’m finishing up some new paintings by day and thinking over show details by night!  I am still not over the excitement that Sacred Heart Cultural Center is hosting an Exhibition of my paintings, beginning November 9 with an Opening Reception from 5 pm to 7 pm.  Pictured here is the invitation to be sent to 1100 people in the Augusta Area!  The Exhibit will be open during their business hours through December 22.  If you can’t make it to the reception, I  hope you can drop in to see while in Augusta, GA.

The theme, “Back Roads…Back Yards…Back Home” is one I’ve used previously.   Many of the new paintings are still leaning toward the rural, nature setting, and ‘homes of the past’ images that I’ve been developing.  There will be some Back Home-Christmas Nostalgia images added for the season, also.

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If you’ve not been to Sacred Heart at 1301 Greene Street, enter through the back gate, by the sign that says Gift Shop (Ellis and 13th Street Gate).  The paintings will be hanging in the back halls, which weave around under the cathedral, making me think of the Catacombs of the early Christians.  It’s a wonderful setting for an art show!

Hope to see you November 9!   5 p.m. to 7 p.m.  And as always, everything is for sale!

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How do you like it?  Click around and give me your feedback on the new website construction.  Anything missing?  Something you wonder about?  Help me trouble-shoot by trying it out.  Check out the Portfolio of current work, too.

You will notice I don’t have the Archives of Sold Paintings.  Maybe I will add those later, as I know several of you have shared your purchases with friends that way.    And, the old blog posts are gone!  (I saved them, but don’t plan to post them all again.)  So, this is the first of many new blog posts to come.

Recent Highlights:

May – Solo show at Averitt Center for the Arts, Statesboro, GA
– spent a week of fun learning at Plein Air South, Apalachicola, FL

June – teaching adult painting classes at MAC on Main Art Gallery, Thomson,
– working on commissions and daily paintings
– preparing for the next solo show in November! (stay tuned)