• Home
  • About
  • Meaning & Purpose

annehallstudio

~ – figurative paintings

annehallstudio

Monthly Archives: April 2016

“…as bad as a mile”

17 Sunday Apr 2016

Posted by annehallstudio in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

The late poet Philip Larkin wrote the poem titled as above. Some say it is a meditation on original sin. I rather relate it to the challenges we set ourselves as artists and sometimes meet but often do not. In six brief lines he said much to ponder.

Watching the shied core
Striking the basket, skidding across the floor,
Shows less and less of luck, and more and more

Of failure spreading back up the arm
Earlier and earlier, the unraised hand calm,
The apple unbitten in the palm.

image

Contessa, a study of my model Annie Jefferson, for the painting “Ring Them Bells”

The way is hard but worth it

11 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by annehallstudio in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

The Spring Arts Festival at the First United Methodist Church of Cumming, Georgia, opened its ninth art show Saturday, April 9 with an appropriately festive reception for artists and patrons. The reception kicks off two weeks of vocal and instrumental concerts, plays and films. Director of Music and Arts John Hutchinson has developed the festival from an initial exhibition to this rich array of offerings. I appreciate my model Annie Jefferson for encouraging me to enter my two paintings, En Route (right) with Mona Reeves modeling, and Before Flight, with Kristin Costa. Annie herself posed for two other artists whose beautiful works were among the 250 on view, Connie Lynn Reilly and Gail Wegotsky.

It was a great pleasure to meet there such accomplished artists as Lynn-Margaret Pace, Mary Negron and Jay David. We all agreed that, art being the labor of love it is, to receive other artists’ recognition is gratifying indeed.

image
image

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • April 2017
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • March 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2013

Categories

  • Oil paintings
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Log in

Powered by WordPress.com.

 

Loading Comments...