MILKWOOD STUDIO & LEO E. OSBORNE 2023
January 24, 2024Do not text me….
I still have a land line, no I-Phone, I barely know how to use this computer, but it does make a good writing tool, though I still miss the wonderful sound of keys typing on a non-electric typewriter.
Through it all, I have kept busy in 2023. I did 10 new paintings that were shown and sold at a September Show in which I was featured and to my own surprise I have completed a new large wood carving. It will soon be photographed and it will be shown on this website, PALACE OF THE GOLDEN PLOVER is the title, you can watch for it to see what it is. Ya, there is a plover in it!
I continue to send my work to the East Coast of the US though shipping has drastically increased as well as the cost of bronze. So, my prices had to increase to keep up with that change.
I had work in a number of fine exhibitions, though I did not travel to any of them. I am not flying and not going to large gatherings. I have not had covid and that is partly why I stay put on this little island in the Salish Sea of the great Pacific Northwest, being reclusive. Yup, the old reclusive artist, just doin’ his thing and watching the world go by, Sittin’ on the dock of the bay, hey!
I continue to work my gardens and look forward to springtime to do its thing.
Reviewing my last years MYSTERIES UNFOLDING AT MILKWOOD, where I had written about the horror of not being able to get from GOLDEN PAINTS the same type of sealer that I had used prior to covid as they could no longer get those raw materials. This sealer was the element needed to oxidize my composite gold leaf paintings. After many calls during months of time, and talking with many folks at GOLDEN, they somewhere found about 2 gallons of the old material and kindly sent that to me. So, I should have enough to last the rest of the time that I hope to be painting and I can continue to produce the style of work that I have become noted for, the oxidized paintings. I am truly grateful to GOLDEN in reconfirming to me that there are still good people out there in the world.
My quest, as always, remains: To share and to bring beauty into the world, for lifting the spirits of people…
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