Oil on Canvas Size: 8X10 Price $100 S&H: $10 It always amazes me to see how much snow still remains high in the mountains in late June, early July; enjoyable time to hike and to paint. To see more of my art work you may visit my websites: www.marylandis.com www.marylandis.blogspot.com A BIG HELLO AND THANK YOU FROM MARY LANDIS, MARY LANDIS FINE ART, MARY LANDIS LANDSCAPES
This time next week, I'll be in Spring Green, Wisconsin setting up a show at my friends' gallery, Red Squared. Michael Desbarres and Ryan Hewson, recent graduates of Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, refitted an old auto parts store that covers 5000+ sf on two levels. They've organized a series of shows relating to art & architecture, the next of which is entitled CONJURE and will feature the artists who have come to Taliesin over many years.
My work on display includes MIGRATION, a collection of needle felted birds (seen on this blog over the past year). Indicative of invisible change, MIGRATION is conceptually and symbolically the slow process of change that is, however, immediate. The time spent in slowly felting the fiber using a single barbed needle is in line with meditation. Meditation is simultaneously an effort to cultivate stillness and a basis for progress and growth.
Also included is BREATHING ROOM, layers upon layers of translucent white paint and the transcribed syllables of the breath, are again a result of meditation – breathing and meditative mark making. The focus upon one’s breath, the sound and sensation of it, is a simple meditation technique here made visually apparent. The end product is a created atmosphere of stillness and the simple knowing of one’s living by breathing.
Oil on Canvas Size: 8X10 Price: $100 S&H: $10 This is a painting of Hallett Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, which is a very popular peak to site and to paint. To see more of my art work you may visit my websites at: www.marylandis.comwww.marylandis.blogspot.com A BIG HELLO AND THANK YOU FROM MARY LANDIS, MARY LANDIS FINE ART, MARY LANDIS LANDSCAPES, IN THE SWEETHEART CITY, LOVELAND, COLORADO.
I have to admit that I am a rather analog guy and this blog should serve as an experiment to enter my personal digital age.
My aim is to communicate and share on this blog all the wonderful and amazing things, people and events related to my obsession with arts, design and architecture that I have the pleasure to discover, work and live with.
Oil on Canvas Size: 8X10 Price: $100 S&H: $10 Painting in Rocky Mountain National Park is never boring; any way you turn your head, there is a breathtaking scene to be painted. This little homestead in Moraine Park was perfect for an intimate 8X10 painting. To see more of my art work you may visit my websites at: www.marylandis.comwww.marylandis.blogspot.com A BIG HELLO AND THANK YOU FROM MARY LANDIS, MARY LANDIS FINE ART, MARY LANDIS LANDSCAPES, MARY LANDIS MOUNTAIN SCENES
Today's sewing accomplishment: Fancy jade dress. Like Fancy purple, this dress is made with a cotton/polyester blend, satin finish fabric. This version incorporates another tie at back to make wearing more simple. Keeping this dress simple, with embellishments centered on fit, is the goal in my design.
Arlene Shechet's cast paper art works currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver are a brilliant change from the often color-lost, subject-heavy paper pulp work I relate to paper making. Often categorized as craft, paper-making rises to an honorable height with Shechet's work. Above, a detail of Shechet's paper work. Her colors, amorphous fields and fluid lines create depth and atmosphere with stunning clarity and simplicity. Shechet confidently gifts the viewer with continuity between upwards of 10 cast paper works keeping to the same pallet of color, texture and form. Go to MCA on 15th St. and Delgany St., Denver or their website to see more.
My work on display includes MIGRATION, a collection of needle felted birds (seen on this blog over the past year). Indicative of invisible change, MIGRATION is conceptually and symbolically the slow process of change that is, however, immediate. The time spent in slowly felting the fiber using a single barbed needle is in line with meditation. Meditation is simultaneously an effort to cultivate stillness and a basis for progress and growth.
Above, a detail of Shechet's paper work. Her colors, amorphous fields and fluid lines create depth and atmosphere with stunning clarity and simplicity. Shechet confidently gifts the viewer with continuity between upwards of 10 cast paper works keeping to the same pallet of color, texture and form. Go to MCA on 15th St. and Delgany St., Denver or their website to see more.
