view from my studio

so hard to get anything done, but i can't complain.

some favorite pictures from the past month

Shacks, shacks and more shacks

If you need more shacks in your life...Be sure to also check out "Just As Long As You Are There" a new show opening this friday at Corduroy. Michael Dacey creates geometric plywood caves and beautiful letterpress prints. We sure wish we could make it.

Draw Your Face Off

This friday at SPACE gallery our artist collective is hosting a live drawing rally with 20 or more of some of the best artists in our fare city of Portland, Maine. The even goes from 5-8pm with music and beer aflowin'. Come bring home some affordable drawings minutes after completion.

crytsal couture

I have been kind of obsessed with the free people blog lately...and, I think they might be catching on.

Design by Irina Shaposhnikova
from the collection Crystallographica

Design by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Can someone please buy these for me??

colorscope

I found this via the paper source.

I can't get enough chartreuse in my life, and apparently it helps me explore the inner meaning of life!

a droopy delight

Peter picked these flowers for me on a hike he did this weekend in Vermont. By the time they got to maine they were a little droopy, by I love them just the same. I had fun playing with them in the studio.

Mattson Family Art Benefit

3,000 miles away, but ill be there in heart and spirit...

Mattson Family Art Benefit


Friday, June 26
Surfindian Gallery
4658 Mission Blvd., Pacific Beach


Music by the Mattson 2



Silent Auction 7pm - 9pm

Art to be "in hand" to winning bidder by 9:30pm


100% of the proceeds will go to the Mattson family.

$5 suggested donation at the door




For more information, please go to www.surfindian.com

If you are reading this, and you just so happen to live in California, then you have no excuse but to go and support the Mattson Family. Not to mention there are some pretty amazing artists in the lineup...

Alberto Cuadros : Andrew Paynter : Andy Davis : Candace Anderson : Chivo : Ciro Bicudo : David Hanson : Droog79 : Dustin Ortiz : Ed Fladung : Frank Cubillos : Heather Brown : Jair Bortoleto : Jamie Watson : Jay Watson : Jenny McGee Dougherty : Jessica Nichols : John Zane Zappas : Joseph Conway : Julie Goldstein : Justin Furniss : Kassia Meador : Katrine Hildebrandt : Kieron 'Seamouse' Lewis : Kim Nguyen : Kyle Lightner : Lindsay Preston : Liz Cockrum : Luke Taaffe : Maggie Marsek : Meegan Feori : Michael Singman-Aste : Peter Jackson Hussey : Peter McBride : Renata Morrone : Rick Albano : Ryan Tatar : Serena Mitnik-Miller : Scott Massey : Scott Szegeski : Ted 'Clayfin' Gallup : Theo Hetherington : Thomas Campbell : Tiffany Campbell : Todd Stewart : Troy Dockins : Ty Williams : Yusuke Hanai

oh my.

REVIVAL

The Pine Haven Collective is at it again. We have been working hard for the past couple months in preparation for our newest installation at ellO gallery in Portsmouth, NH. Come check out new work by Peter Jackson Hussey, Jenny McGee Dougherty, Joseph Conway and myself.

Sick Drawing by Joseph Conway

ellO gallery
110 State Street
Portsmouth, NH
Opening: June 5th from 5-8

thought id share

some pictures from the weekend...

3 things with rings

i've been drawn to circles
and what they represent
in the past couple of days.

in my drawing
i've been thinking
about the use of this shape
and how it can represent
the passage between two places.


a path or pattern
in which something goes
from one thing to another.

bits and pieces of things to come...

Evolve

Yoga Art

I took this book Yoga Art by Ajit Mookerjee out at the library, and it has really inspired me in the past couple of days.

Some of the works in the book date back to the 15th century, yet look like they could have been produced yesterday. The forms are so simple, yet they reference things much greater and complex.


I think this quote kind of sums things up:

"According to yoga, the disciplines of science, metaphysics and philosophy must converge in the artist with a personal mysticism that penetrates the confused surfaces of experience to extract the principle of being."

From the Studio

This is a pretty simple paper cut i did today...but, it sprouted some ideas about 2d meeting 3d. More to come soon, I think...

goodbye winter

i took this picture in january i think. there was so much frost on the window that you couldn't even peer out. looking forward to spring...

little movie

art show

The Mattson family is going through difficult times due to very serious health issues. Jamie Watson over at Pineappleluv will be collecting artwork for a benefit art show that will benefit the family. The date for this silent auction is still to be determined, but stay tuned as I'm sure there will be tons of good folks who contribute.

Gems

Yesterday we went for a bike ride down to the piers and I spotted some beautiful old wood sitting out by a dumpster. Just couldn't let these gems sit in a landfill somewhere...so excited to put it to good use.

Studio Walls

For the past month SPACE gallery, in Portland, ME invited a group of artists to recreate an area of their studio/work-space within the gallery. The idea grew from the often shrine-like accumulations of visual materials that so often find there way into the studio.

The studio, for me, is where I feel most comfortable-a little nest. When I get home, I poke my head into the studio and make sure everything is ok in there, it's like a child or a dog or something. Anyway, here are some pictures of my studios over the years. home....





Check out Studio Walls at SPACE.

Artists include: Greta Bank, Melinda Barnes, Amy Stacey Curtis, Meggan Gould, Friederike Hamann, Joe Kievitt, Scott Nash, Patrick O’Rorke, and Colin Sullivan-Stevens.