Artnotes: Progress

4 May 2024  Roccamalatina, MO  ITALIA

Iris  Laurie Fox Pessemier   Acrylic/paper  23.5 x 17"   60 x 43cm  275.00

We drove to the beach on Friday – not one of those perfect turquoise-water places, but the closeby, rainbow light, dog-beach at Porto Garibaldi on the Adriatic.   One drives to Bologna, on to Ferrara, and voila – the sea is out there.  Crossing the Po Delta, we saw lots of flamingoes, in and around the risotto ponds.  There are actually 6 species of flamingoes, and these near Ravenna are migrating up from Africa, stopping in Italy.       Berlino was duly impressed with the beach (we didn’t stop to show our bird dog the flamingoes) and he dragged us a good kilometer, with his goofy smiling face leading the way.   He finally dug a hole and laid down.   Tuna Can  Laurie Fox Pessemier   Acrylic/paper  23.5 x 17"   60 x 43cm  SOLD There were a few people, like us, embracing the sunshine after a week of rain.   I have never seen so much rain here before this year.  The garden is jung le-y.  And it’s fairly cool outside.  I am not complaining as we sit on the brink of a hotter than ever summer.   We are fighting an ant invasion as they leave their flooded homes; we use salt and laurel leaves, which actually look kind of pretty surrounding the windows.  Next we will paint our window casings “no fly” blue.   Blossoming Iris   Blair  Pessemier   Acrylic/canvas  16 x  12 "   40 x 30cm  450.00    I am reading Homer’s Odyssey at the moment.  I hadn’t read it for fifty years, and this translation is ever so much better.   Dawn is no longer “rosy-fingered”, but places her rosy fingers on the earth, which sounds better.  Pallas Athena seems sexy.  Little is actually known about Homer, a one-named writer.  I tell myself there were fewer people alive then, so maybe you only needed one name, like having a four digit phone number in the 1950s. Eglise Auvers-sur-Oise (Van Gogh Village/Paris Collection)  Blair PESSEMIER  Acrylic/inen   18 x 10.5"  45 x 27cm   450.00 Progress has been made on selling our Paris paintings (although I did almost get scammed this week on Instagram, and had to change all passwords).  We sent about 20 paintings to a reseller at the flea market at Porte de Vanves.  He’ll be there today with our work.  Jean-Jacques is his name, and his wife Claudine.  They are near the center of the market, and sold a lot of our things in the past; we bought a lot from them for our Paris apartment, too.  People go to the flea market to buy, as opposed to just being Olympic game fans – that sounds right to me. We are also selling a painting each with a group in California called Smack-Happy, which includes artwork on websites.  Read about it here: Sign up for Artnotes by contacting me at lfpessemier@gmail.com INVITING All Artists to present their Work:   Paint, Literature, Crafts, Food.... Pessemier's Sunday Salon Weekly on Sunday  No Reservation Necessary   How it works: Bring a piece of your ART: that could be visual, like painting or printmaking; or literary, as in poetry or prose; or crafts, like metalwork or knitting; or food, or music.  Something you made, or feel particularly inspired by.  You have about 5 minutes to present, and we'll ooh, ahh, or answer questions you have.  You can also come and see how we work before diving in.  Just show up on Zoom at a minute or two before the hour.    No selling, no networking until after everyone has presented. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88093708954?pwd=M04zNHB4dFZkREp3bThweUd1YnVDZz09 Meeting ID: 880 9370 8954 Passcode: 886402 Rome 8PM; NY 2 PM; LosAngeles 11AM