NEWS FROM MILKWOOD

Posted on July 24, 2019 by jane

Hey folks, a lot has happened and more is scheduled for the remainder of this 2019 into 2020…..

The year started with the Smith &Vallee Gallery and their Bird Invitational Exhibition, then onto the Scot Milo Group Painting Show which went great. The Skagit Land Trust had its auction with another year of having an Osborne SOLD at their event to raise money. The Anacortes Madrona Grove Sculpture Garden juried into this years event my EAGLE SONG of two embracing Eagles and THE ILLUMINATED ONE, the bronze of my Cormorant. There was the MONA Auction which I sent a work to this year and SOLD to my wonderful friend and collector of many years and many works of my art, Marge Bickel. Another auction that I shall be a part of is The Loyalhanna Watershed Association in Ligonier, Pennsylvania , held at the wonderful Rolling Rock Country Club of the noted golfer Arnold Palmer.

Coming up for the remainder of this year, I will again have a work with the 59^th Annual Society of Animal Artists Exhibition, I will again be participating in the National Wildlife Art Museum in Jackson, Wyoming for their WESTERN VISIONS SHOW and I am pleased to announce that they installed my 13 foot bronze, MAGINATION in a perfect and sweet location on the museum grounds.

With the National Sculpture Society I have again been juried into the exhibit at the PERFORMANCE IN SCULPTURE EXHIBIT at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida.

Another very special event that I shall be a part of with six bronze sculptures exhibited, is IN THE TRADITION OF AUDUBON, held at The Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,

September 13 – January 5.

On December 6^th, I will participate in a group show of a small painting opening at Scot Milo Gallery here in Anacortes, WA.

And….I must mention that THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ‘II’ EXHIBITION begins its three year museum tour of the United States.  I am especially proud of this exhibit as it was through a phone conversation with curator David Wagner during the Gulf Oil Spill, that we together began the organizing of the first Environmental Impact Exhibition which toured a few years back to a number of North American Museums.

Very soon now, my first written and illustrated book, THE CAT & THE CORACLE will be published, printed and released. I will be showing the 24 colored illustrations and the 15 black & white drawings at the opening for this book, all pieces being for sale.

So, it has been a busy and exciting year, even though now nearing 72, I said that I was slowing down..well guess what, I still have the spunk and the juice to go on with….yes, doing more paintings than sculpture which is so very physically exhausting, but moving ahead with my journey in a life as an artist…….and another book is starting to find its way into my journaling and writing!

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