Artnotes: Wildflowers

 

The Face in the Corner   Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas panel 9 x 12"  22 x 30 cm  290.00 When we arrived in Luxembourg (in the last century, 1976-ish), my fellow traveler and I saw a man pushing a car.  We immediately set down our bags and helped him get going.  “You must come to my house for coffee and pastry,” he insisted.  We did.  And from that moment forward, I realized travel was connecting with people in another place.   It was my first trip outside of the US. The New Coat Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  12 x 8.5"  30 x 20cm  90.00 That afternoon, we boarded a train for Florence.  I had a mission to see all that Art History I studied – and I barely went to any museums.   I was just too thrilled with seeing all the people around me.  Leonardo who?   Honestly, I just wandered around, sitting on church steps, walking through parks, observing everything, eavesdropping and chatting with English speaking (or patient Italian) locals. I could have spent the rest of my life in a cafe in Venice, to the tune of the orchestra. Flowers in the Window   Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  9 x 12"  22 x 30cm  90.00 Sadly, the need to earn a living (briefly) overtook my wanderlust.  What I did figure out, however, was that I needn’t stay in Hartford, Connecticut.  I moved to Seattle which was like a giant vacation.  Every day, a new place, a new view, a new friend.  I met Blair, and we settled in together.   We went everywhere we could from Seattle – visiting the coasts of Washington and Oregon.  We went to Vancouver, BC several times a year.  We saw Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon, which were almost as stimulating as going abroad: wide open spaces, cowboys, rodeos, sunshine, sage and petrified wood; Soap Lake, Ephrata. By the Lake    Commission by Blair We made the most friends new friends in Tunisia. Samir invited us to eat goat head on his dining room floor; he was a joyous man, who would dance, alone, on the beach in the early morning.   Sala, a fisherman, encouraged me to meet his five daughters (“Laurie is a MODERN woman”). When we asked directions, a man walked us to the post office in Tunis, waited as we plied the line and did our business and walked us back to the train.  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/paper   Quince on Black Paper 11.7 x 16.5″  30 x 42cm  190.00 Quince on White Paper  8 x 12″  22 x 30  90.00 In Cervo, Italy, a man living in the same building as our rental apartment, gave us all the lemons on his tree and suggested we make limoncello.   We drank coffee every morning with the old hippie owner of the restaurant Serafina – “look” he’d say, “today you can see Corsica”.           Wild Yellow Flowers /Colored Field  LauriePessemier  Acrylic/newspaper  12 x 8.5″   30 x 20cm     90.00 On our most recent little vacation with friends to the Tuscan seaside, we took a little trip every day:  Pisa and Pietrasanta (the bronze manufacturing center of Italy (think Louise Bourgeois’ giant spider “mother”; or the huge bronze horses in Italian piazzas).  In our own town of Viareggio, we visited daily with our café owners (eating Lenten pastries), and the local product vendors at the market.  It’s those little connections that make a difference – for us and for the people we encounter.   Together, we are a field of wildflowers, sown by the birds.     Wild Yellow Flowers /White Field   Laurie Pessemier  Acrylic/paper  16 x 11″  40 x 30cm  190.00

HOUSEKEEPING:  We make art to order, including portraits by Blair Pessemier.    Follow us on Instagram @lauriepessemier See all of our paintings at https://paintfox.com Most of our work is available as reproductions, custom sized and framed. Write to me at lfpessemier@gmail.com   sign up for Artnotes, our weekly art missive, by contacting me at lfpessemier@gmail.com or https://mailchi.mp/341f508cecf8/artnotes 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.  No politics, no sales pitches, please. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88093708954?pwd=M04zNHB4dFZkREp3bThweUd1YnVDZz09 Meeting ID: 880 9370 8954 Passcode: 886402 Rome 8 PM   NY 2 PM; LosAngeles 11AM