Thanks to everyone who made my Art by the Lake experience so great at the Fenimore Art Museum. I met lots of great artists and art admirers, sold four paintings and got one post show sale. I appreciate you all so much! The whole event felt really nice and I was very proud to be there — the Fenimore is such a beautiful museum, inside and out. I also reached a milestone of having sold my 50th landscape painting since I started making them nearly three years ago. I’m so grateful and amazed my paintings have resonated with so many of you.
Now that the fair is over I’ve been caught off guard by the post-art fair blues. I’ve experienced mild post-exhibition blues before but now I’m learning it extents to art fairs as well. I have a feeling of “how can I get back the level of excitement I had at the fair?” and realizing that now is actually the time to clean the studio, recharge and get back into my usual groove of painting.
I’m probably also feeling a little blue because I’m going through and thinning out all the art I made as a kid and young adult. My parents are downsizing their home so the day of reckoning has come for all the paintings and sketchbooks I haven’t looked at in decades. Going through it all has stirred up a lot of feelings - pride, amusement, surprise, melancholy and a feeling of what am I going to do with all this stuff?!
A few drawings from the archive:
