En Plein Air Painting: a quick guide to getting started this summer
The mornings have even more light now that it is summer. A good day to start painting en plein air which means getting outside and making art.
Elaine Mandrona: The urgent need to make art every day
I’ve been wanting to do this story since she announced to me one day that all she wanted to do every day is make things.
En plein air — with crayons
My parents always bought me a new box of crayons in the springtime, around mid-April. It was always the Crayola box of 64 with a built-in sharpener.
Art Transforms Space: A Show at Strong Hands Massage Clinic
Art show at a clinic explores the healing power of art and nature’s beauty.
Mark Connors’ Lobsters
Being immersed in Nature has always been critical to Mark Connors’ artistic and spiritual well-being.
Devin Boudreau’s Sacred Geometry Art
Devin is fascinated by the repeating geometric patterns found everywhere in the natural world and that his art based on those principles are not just beautiful but beneficial psychologically, spiritually, and even physically.
Cynthia Curtis’s beachcombing sculptures
Cynthia Curtis makes wonderful sculptures from materials she finds on the beaches near her home in Rockdale in southern Cape Breton.
Bernie Wood’s Birdhouses
If you know Bernie Wood at all, you won’t be surprised to hear he’s making birdhouses from the flotsam and jetsam of shore debris.
Andrea Querchfeld
The location, far from her native Munich, attests to Andrea Querchfeld’s love of nature and the wild and she admits to hoping to see some “elementals,” or nature spirits, in the Canadian forest.
A New Gallery in St. Peters
Pepperell Place Inn has a new art gallery on the premises! Located in the village of Saint Peters, Cindy Walker, inn owner since 2021, says, “I just wanted to bring life back to this house — to bring it back to its glory.”
