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Strasburg Studio Archives: Rediscovery in the Stacks
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MARCH SPOTLIGHT : "Spring Greens & Trickster"
each image 4 x 4", gouache on Arches board, 2018.
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Thank you for joining me on this monthly trip through the archives of my studio.
Spring Grees, 4 x 4”, gouache on arches board.
Well, spring has arrived. Sorry Punxsutawney Phil. California has not been experiencing your predicted extra six weeks of winter. I dreamed of more wonderfully wet, rainy days filling the house with smells of bubbling soup on the stove and fresh baked bread, coupled with hours in the studio tucked away from the elements with the dog happily snoozing nearby.
Sigh. If only…
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad we don’t have freezing temperatures with feet of snow piling outside or days on end of grey skies with rain that just won’t let up. But there’s something to be said for the slow, quiet rhythm of winter—the kind of days that invite you to stay in, to let time linger and stretch. The kind of days where the world outside feels a little farther away, and you can lose yourself in the simple pleasures of creation.
My March spotlight, Spring Greens & Trickster, are small gouache paintings on Arches board. I spend many happy hours at my drawing table creating these small paintings. Sometimes, they begin as studies for larger projects, and other times, they’re simply born from the pure pleasure of a brush gliding across the surface.
The beauty of working in a smaller format is the freedom it offers—the chance to explore new ideas, to test out different compositions, or to play with unexpected color combinations. These little experiments become stepping stones, guiding me toward what might eventually find its way onto a much larger canvas. And on those winter afternoons, when the fading light seems to pull the day into an early dusk, they offer me a way to keep moving, to keep creating. Each brushstroke is a connection, a thread to the next day’s work, to the endless possibilities that lie just beyond the horizon of my studio.
Trickster, 4 x 4”, gouache on arches board.
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Both, Spring Greens & Trickster, were paintings created for the exhibition The River's Journey: A Wider View hosted by Sullivan Goss in Ocotber of 2018. You can watch the fabulous video narrated by Susan Bush and view some of the collection from the show HERE. The image size is 4 x 4" and both pieces are framed with an 8ply matboard in a brushed florentine silver frame, finished size 13 x 11".
