My annual trip to Jackson Hole is, as noted, a wintercount of sorts for me. One of the most important parts of the trip is the afternoon I spend cruising the top galleries in Jackson, both representational and contemporary. Every time I do this I’m convinced anew that EVERY artist has to renew herself regularly, preferably through Seeing Others’ Artwork - whether through visits to galleries, museums, other artists’ studios, whatever. I’ve come away from visits to fine-craft shops all fired up with color and texture and the desire to mess with same.
Here are some of the notes I made in my sketchbook after Fall Arts Festival:
- Zhaoming Wu: beautiful, luminous, dissolving lights/shadows
- Rocky Hawkins: texture, abstraction
- Tom Gilleon, John Nieto: big negative areas worked with color and texture
- Jeff Ham: giant, bold, colorful work (Jeff had 8′x10′ canvases in progress - drips, spills, color everywhere - on the walls at Mountain Trails Gallery)
- September Vhay: daring, clean compositions (September is a good friend and she’s been carving her own path and voice for a while, and I admire her for it)
- The thrill and satisfaction of color that is not tied to reality
The first thing I painted after this trip:
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