Festival: Art in the Park & Getting ready for the Holidays

Art in the Park

You just must come up to Centerville on Saturday October 26th  to Art in the Park Festival. 9am-2pm. This is our 2nd annual Art in the Park Festival. We have many artists-2 & 3 dimensional art coming from around the state. We also have 3 musicians and 2- children’s theater groups performing. All  of this wonderful venue  of creative works is in the  lovely setting of Fort Boggy State Park. I will have an inventory of Tyler Shelf Art, examples the Shelf Art is to the left and above. I will also bring many other pieces  of my paintings. I hope that you can make it. I would love to see everyone.  Fort Boggy is just south of Centerville on Hiway 75. The festival is a production of the Centerville Arts Commission, with also co-sponsors of Voices for Children & EDC of Centerville.

I just finished West Virginia. It is from my brother’s beautiful property in West Virginia. This scene is of the path down by the river. This is just a tiny piece of the heaven that I love to visit. My brother Patrick and his wife Linda have turned their home and land into a retreat like setting. The house is up the hill, making the view breathtaking. I love to sit on the back deck and watch the Bald Eagles cruise over the river that runs along the property.  It was also a place of inspiration for my brother Mike (1950-2008). When Mike died, I was fortunate to be the one who inherited his reference library. This scene is from one of his photographs. As far as I am aware, he did not ever create a painting from the photo.  I have several photos of his that invite me to interpret and  this is one of them.

I can easily put myself back there, walking down this path on a brisk day and folding into the nature around me. Being close to nature is something that I  have found is necessary for my sense of well-being. When I moved to my place just outside Centerville back in 2016, I felt a tangible sense of peace and calm overwhelm and envelop me.  I miss my friends and some of the activities in Galveston.  I love to go visit, but I have found that just like in the Wizard of OZ….”there is no place like home”

I want to say one thing about the painting of the walk along the river in West Virginia, as I pointed out, I did not take that photograph, my brother Mike did. So I did not create the basis for this work of art. I have to give the credit to my brother for having the eye to recognize this scene as being worthy of painting. I did interpret the photograph; I altered the composition, added my style and artistic sense. Artist have the responsibility of recognizing that creating a work of art is not copying someone else’s work and not giving them credit. This is just one of my pet peeves. You can copy someone else’s work, but you have to give credit to that original artist.

Please try to make it up to the Art in the Park on the 26th. Love you, Susan