October 2013
After painting like crazy all summer I took a new full time art teaching job, so the paint brushes have been idle for the last 6 weeks. I am enjoying my new job and hope to get into a routine of painting some during the school year.
It will be a month or so before I get new photos taken of my new paintings from spring and summer, but I do have plenty of work.
I will be having a show of this said work at The Art Center in Corvallis Oregon, July 2014. I am pleased to have that on the calendar and even more pleased to have the work 90% completed.
I love teaching and it pays the bills, but I also love to paint and get lost in creative thought and problem solving.
Wish me luck in finding a productive balance in both parts of my life.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
I have been working up a storm since school let out. I call it "my organized and German way," others might call it....strong work ethic or driven...?
Anyway the Visual Chronicle of Portland is accepting submissions this summer and I finally read the directions and followed the guidelines. Usually that is a little hard for me to devote my precious, precious time to make art in a way that does not quite suit my particular desire of subject or medium. This time I obeyed.
They want work on paper - check
They want work referring to Portland neighborhoods- check
So I returned to one of my favorite places in Portland and took reference pictures, and entered my studio and got to work. The fun part in my mind is that I have photographed and painted this locale 10 years ago and 20 years ago. I like it, it is weird and magical.
What a set up.
Here they are.
Anyway the Visual Chronicle of Portland is accepting submissions this summer and I finally read the directions and followed the guidelines. Usually that is a little hard for me to devote my precious, precious time to make art in a way that does not quite suit my particular desire of subject or medium. This time I obeyed.
They want work on paper - check
They want work referring to Portland neighborhoods- check
So I returned to one of my favorite places in Portland and took reference pictures, and entered my studio and got to work. The fun part in my mind is that I have photographed and painted this locale 10 years ago and 20 years ago. I like it, it is weird and magical.
What a set up.
Here they are.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
I wanted to show the new larger paintings together and below that, share some of the smaller ones that include ideas that led to this work or tangents along the way.
I have applied for a couple opportunities recently requiring an artist statement and found I needed to rethink what I am doing as it has evolved. The landscape/environment has become more dominant in the paintings. I attribute that to the fact that I am a lover of the Pacific Northwest and have hiked lots and camped in many places of dramatic beauty. These places do feed my soul and it should be no surprise to me (though it is!) that these places are appearing as the locales of my other personal symbology. And, there is definitely something about all the fencing and netting. Universally we want to contain and protect, hold in and keep out. I think it is almost an obsession....almost.
Hey....they are all self-portraits or fragments of memories.
Enough words, here you go.
I have applied for a couple opportunities recently requiring an artist statement and found I needed to rethink what I am doing as it has evolved. The landscape/environment has become more dominant in the paintings. I attribute that to the fact that I am a lover of the Pacific Northwest and have hiked lots and camped in many places of dramatic beauty. These places do feed my soul and it should be no surprise to me (though it is!) that these places are appearing as the locales of my other personal symbology. And, there is definitely something about all the fencing and netting. Universally we want to contain and protect, hold in and keep out. I think it is almost an obsession....almost.
Hey....they are all self-portraits or fragments of memories.
Enough words, here you go.
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| Yellow Scaffold, my current favorite |
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| Deluge and Debris |
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| The Cave for Spinning |
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| Some Useful Tools |
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| Lost |
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| Found |
Thursday, February 28, 2013
NEW...LARGER PAINTINGS
At the advice of an acquaintance/artist I took some of my newer work
and enlarged it from 18"x24" to 36"x 48". This gave me the opportunity
to make adjustments and fine tune the images. I found that I really
enjoyed the process and am thrilled with the results.
The new size was also out of my range for photographic lighting control so that gave me the impetus to hire a professional (Dan Kvitka), who was extremely helpful and did a beautiful job.
Here they are...in their larger glory with the "study" version next to them for comparison.
The new size was also out of my range for photographic lighting control so that gave me the impetus to hire a professional (Dan Kvitka), who was extremely helpful and did a beautiful job.
Here they are...in their larger glory with the "study" version next to them for comparison.
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| Storage - study 18" x 24" |
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| "Storage- years of collecting "- 36' x48" final painting |
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| River of wheels - study 18" x24" |
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| More searching at the river of wheels - 36"x48" |
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| Deluge- study, 18" x 24" |
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| Deluge and debris - 36" x 48" |
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Winter 2013
contact info: nchelmsworth@gmail.com
Explorer Series- on display now through 2/28/13
The wonderful framers (and I really mean this...they are great at what they do, helpful and reasonably priced) at Frame Central - Bethany are hosting a show and studio sale of my Explorer Series, which has traveled quite a bit this year and been displayed in several locations.
All framed work has UV glass and archival mat board.
contact info: nchelmsworth@gmail.com
Explorer Series- on display now through 2/28/13
The wonderful framers (and I really mean this...they are great at what they do, helpful and reasonably priced) at Frame Central - Bethany are hosting a show and studio sale of my Explorer Series, which has traveled quite a bit this year and been displayed in several locations.
All framed work has UV glass and archival mat board.
Frame Central - Bethany
16157 NW Cornell Road
Beaverton, OR 97006
16157 NW Cornell Road
Beaverton, OR 97006
Hours
Mon-Sat 9am-7pm
Sunday 10am-5pm
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Collision of Postcards mixed media, 22"x30" image |
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| Telescope 1 mixed media, 11"x14" image |
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| Searching for the exotic. mixed media 18"x24" image |
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| Telescope 2 mixed media, 11"x14" image |
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| Telescope 3 mixed media, 11"x14" image |
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| It’s a clue. mixed media 18"x24" image |
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| Telescope 4, mixed media, 11'x14" image | . |
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| What next? (arctic penguin) mixed media 18"x24" image |
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| Arctic Explorers mixed media 11"14 image |
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| What? such an unsettling family adventure into the wilds. mixed media |
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| Searching above and below mixed media 22"x30" image |
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| Wrong Way, mixed media 18"x24" image, |
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| Us and Them mixed media 14"x17" image |
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