White Oak Studio

Yesterday I spent the entire day separating artwork to go to galleries for the 2008 season. Each outlet gets a detailed computer inventory for tracking purposes.

Pile 1: Are items to go to Khenemu Gallery, Fennville
Pile 2: Are items to go to Local Color Gallery, Lakeside, Michigan (Harbor Country)
Pile 3: Are items to save out for my solo showing In July at the South Haven Public Library

It took a half of a tank of gas, or more than $25.00 worth of gas to deliver artwork to this gallery located in a resort community about an hour and a half drive from my home. I worry about how much longer I am going to be able to continue to consign with the cost of gas?

My work had been there for over a year and I felt it was important to swop out for some new pieces as we approach the 2008 season. I was please to find that I had sold another canvas, this time a piece called “Ancient Ferns.” It was actually a dyptic of white on white paper (with black flecks of Oregon seaweed and kale in it) highlighted with large, unusual ferns on it from the Tallgrass Marsh. It was very exciting to be handed a nice size check today!

She took one large pieces and two of the narrow vertical canvas’s as the gallery is tight on space with over 90 consiging artists and the upcoming “Art Attack,” scheduled for early May.

This means I have sold two large canvas’s, a small framed collage and several smaller pieces at this gallery during the past year. Not too bad for the current poor MI economy! (I suspect these are being sold to individuals from IL who find our modest prices, quite affordable.)

Whoever the buyer, I am grateful!