Artnotes: Laugh Laugh Laugh

 

Berlino's Epiphany    Laurie Fox Pessemier    Acrylic/paper   10 x 17 "   26 x 63cm  250.00   or I'd paint your dog!

I just love this time of year.  Italy is on vacation (I’m not), and we still have a few more days before we get back to work.  The Epiphany is Monday, 6 January and the Befana (witch) brings toys and candy to all good children.  It’s all harmless fun here: I am for that.

It's still Christmas at our house

Meanwhile, I review the good and bad from 2024, and contemplate which resolutions I am going to commit to my wall.   The first resolution is NO HATE.  I simply can’t bear it, and although there are events, people and places I avoid, I will not hate them.  Nothing good ever comes of hate, just like nothing good ever comes of anger, which is another feeling I will avoid in 2025. My favorite bits of 2024 were painting with my friend on Monday mornings, having the Sunday Art Salon, and making up shows in our Gallery in Roccamalatina.   I loved, loved, loved our winter trip to Pompeii and afternoons with Berlino at the beach.  I loved it enough to wish I lived near Naples.

Resolutions

Right now, we’re trying to negotiate our art project for this year.  We had thought about going to France to paint boats in Sete (not far from Montpelier), but it doesn’t seem quite engaging enough for me.  An alternative could be painting interior spaces (churches, restaurants, pizza parlors?) in the Naples area.   What we are leaning toward now is painting in coffee shops:  on small surfaces, like those crunchy Italian coffee napkins.  Because most of our work is only seen online these days, it really doesn’t matter how big it is.  We could make a true “coffee table” book.   Please cast your VOTE Boats in France, or 2) Churches in Naples  or 3) Coffee shop pictures.

Coffee Cup on a Bar Napkin  Laurie Fox Pessemier

I am supporting others to achieve their dreams:  do it now, it’s later than you think. I am going to decorate every chance I get -- we already bought this beautiful new side table (12.50 euros).   And above all, this year I am going to LAUGH, LAUGH, LAUGH, mostly at my silly self.

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