New ones in for the season at The Dunes:
                  Geraniums and Picket Fences    8x11 oil pastels     SOLD

                     Daylilies in the Barnyard     7.5x15    oil pastels   SOLD

     - along with Red Door, which has been hanging in my living room for a while 
                                                    11x14,  oil pastels         SOLD

A new one for Details, Past and Present Gallery in Charlottetown:
                                         Farm by the Bay       7.5x11    oil pastels  SOLD

Artwork 2013

A couple of recent works:
                       "Toward Meadow Bank" , currently at Details, Past and Present Gallery

boathouse, Saint John             The boathouse has collapsed since I took the reference photo .   private collection

Plein air sketches of the same pumpkin patch, July and September:

a commission, acrylics, 24x30              SOLD

It was fun, as always, painting en plein air in people's gardens at Hampton, New Brunswick's  "Bloomin'Artists" 2-day  paintout.  Here are a couple of my oil pastel sketches :                                             SOLD

                                                                               SOLD

This year they provided small benches for us to paint. I put a local Hampton scene on mine, in the style of Tiffany Glass, and it fetched a good price at the auction.

Currently showing at Details, Past and Present     SOLD

In to The Dunes Gallery for the summer season:
                                                          (SOLD)

                                                          (SOLD)

At Citadel Gallery, Saint John   "Rainy Ritual"

at Handworks Gallery, Saint John             SOLD

                                                                                SOLD

I brought my mini plein air kit to Switzerland in the spring. This is a slightly larger studio version of a sketch I made in the mountains by Zermatt. The Matterhorn is seen in the distance.

Honorable Mention

I entered a couple of works in the annual online show of the Oil Pastel Society, and was pleased to learn that my little plein air of blueberry fields (posted here in August) was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Professional category. I was also surprised , because of the amazing quality of the work that was entered.

(This one is now in The Dunes for the 2014 season)
"Rush Hour in Meadowbank", oil pastel, 9x11

I finished off 2012 with a couple of acrylic paintings. My son Mike asked for one of the Reversing Falls bridge, and this one took two panels.

And since we were helping him set up his apartment, I made a portrait of his old skateboarding sneakers for Christmas.

  "Winter Color (Mispec)" 8x10

"Rockwood Park" 8x10     Handworks Gallery       SOLD

"Salisbury Barns" 11x14             at Citadel Gallery

                              
                             

A Commission
 I was commissioned to do a painting for a wedding present for the same couple mentioned in a recent post. The couple went through my photographs and selected this scene, of the dock  where they often went swimming. Here it is at low tide, as the sun is burning off the morning mist. 12x16  (SOLD)

Art In The Open was fun!  Lots of people stopped to look and chat.
After two hours I was finished this one   (SOLD)

and then I went up by the gallery, met several of the other artists ( Richard Vickerson , Sandi Komst, and Gale Abbey) and spent another two hours painting from a photo I had brought.

Here's another one on the wall at Details, Past and Present gallery. 9x19.

                                                                                      ( SOLD)
The city-wide Art in the Open takes place this coming weekend , and artists exhibiting at Details are going to be at Victoria Row painting the sidewalk cafes, etc, en plein air. Here's hoping for good weather.

This is a recent 8x10 studio piece based on a plein air work done in 2007. The sun was shining through the grasses, making them glow; a difficult color to capture, and to photograph.          at The Dunes Gallery        SOLD

little ones

July was very busy and didn't give me much time for art-making. I got a couple of plein airs in while my husband was doing some paragliding stuff. Both are around 4"x6".                                                                  

                                                                                SOLD

 

                          SOLD

Then I did a 5x7 for part of a shower gift for a young relative. Bride and groom both grew up on farms in PEI and are now living in a city in Ontario. This is the groom's home; my daughter Julie painted the one for the bride.