Months have passed since I last posted a blog. All winter I worked away to CWM seeming to get no where. Discouraging but I kept hoping it was having some positive effect on my overall work. I came home late March as I had a large commission to do for WB Gallery. I started two 40 x 52 inch pieces both based on poppies. The client already owned one of my poppy small works. 3 weeks into I sent an image of one of the panels. it was too light for their liking. Fortunately I had the other panel done only so far so I was able to apply the layer of amber shellac on the wax and fire it up. That gave the overall tone of sienna they were looking for.Another 10 days and I delivered the piece to Hanover where my gallery director picked it up and delivered it to the client. Finally the deal was sealed. The entire event was stressful. All that time, work and effort not knowing if it will please the buyer. Not at all like the process of going into ones studio and just painting your heart out uninhibitedly.

That's all behind me and now I am preparing for my solo show at AVA gallery in W. Lebanon. This is a show I won last year  after being chosen as an artist deserving recognition in the states of NH and VT. I have a large room and can work as large as I like. I will show my older dress pieces, the two falling stone works that got me the show and newer works. I am doing some 60 x 30 inch ink drawings on yupo paper of stone walls and hope to have a couple stone walls in encaustic as well.