Or as I like to call this period, My Cuisinart Life! Ouch, there are way too many, big and life-changing things going on. I do feel like I've been tossed in a giant Cuisinart and chopped and mashed and swirled for several months. I assume I'll emerge relatively intact, but I know I'll be transformed. In many ways, it's been an exciting time. It's been stressful. It's been necessary. It's not over yet.
Anyway, I will tell more when I can, but for now, let me share a bit of what I've been working on in the studio and to say I'm so looking forward to a return, with my husband, to Norway in December!
I've got several paintings going in my Places Project, as I mentioned, and some of them are even finished! I'm applying for a show of this first phase of work, excluding, unfortunately, my Caledonian Orogeny drawings (they can't be exhibited in the place I'm applying to, because of their unusual format.) But I've got several paintings, acrylic on board, of various sizes, and I will keep working on this series in the next year.
My trip to Norway is part of this Places Project... it's been several years since I was in Arctic Norway in the winter and I need to go back and get an inspiration re-infusion. And, my husband and I love that part of the world anyway, so it works out well.
Here are some of my finished pieces. I won't hog your bandwidth with photos of all of them.
Polar Twilight 1. I've attached a number to this one, because I plan on making several more in this sub-series, after our trip to Norway. I can't WAIT.
More Norway:
Wales, a painting of a stormy scene from Anglesey I have shared only a detail of in the past:
More Wales. This painting was inspired by my polar swim on Whitesands Bay last New Year's Day:
On Whitesands Bay, one cold and damp day last January, the sky was covered in a network of chevron-shaped clouds:
Just to show there are blue skies in even my cold places, here's a painting I made of Dulas Bay in north Wales, after a recent autumn trip there.:
After Norway, I still have northern Scotland to go to, my last place in the work inspired by the Caledonian Orogeny. Not sure when that trip will happen.
I'm now turning to that age-old question: which art supplies should I take on my coming Norwegian trip??! This is an issue we traveling artists always wrestle with, but for me, who travels only with a carry_on (that has also to hold my winter gear!!) it's a real puzzler!
I'm so glad to have resurfaced and I send thanks and love to all who (still) follow my wanderer's (recently subterranean) life.
Thank you, dear Marly! More to go in this series, and then back to the Caledonian Orogeny project, more specifically, and with different media.
Posted by: Laura Frankstone | January 13, 2020 at 11:35 AM
Thank you, Michele, for the lovely comment!
Posted by: Laura Frankstone | January 13, 2020 at 11:32 AM
Thank you so much, Katy! That is the approach I use ;D.
Posted by: Laura Frankstone | January 13, 2020 at 11:31 AM
I just saw these wonderful comments!
Posted by: Laura Frankstone | January 13, 2020 at 11:30 AM
These are stunning! Hang in there - you will no doubt be blended perfectly by the end of your process :)! (We Alaskans wear layers of gear on the plane! - the carry on is for art supplies!)
Posted by: Katy Gilmore | October 30, 2019 at 09:55 AM
Polar Twilight #1 is magnificent. I love the colors. Bravo!
Posted by: Michele | October 29, 2019 at 09:57 PM