Entries from March 1, 2007 - April 1, 2007
3/26: Down East Writers' Conference
The first ever Down East Writers' Conference will take place here in Stonington June 14 - 16. Incidentally, it's happening at the same time as the Lupine Festival, so you might want to book your accomodations now. We'll be busy with our own opening that Friday night. Should be an interesting weekend.
isalos fine art
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3/25: Future Paintings, Future Kayak
Lately, the gallery is dominated more by Rebecca's studio and kayak-building shop than it is by paintings- or it's a fairly even draw, which is fine, given the minimal March traffic. Most galleries around here don't boast about March being a great month in terms of traffic or sales. I can't complain- we've had traffic and sales, but it hardly compares to one good day in August. Which is why the space this time of year is well-suited for other pursuits, like making art and kayaks.
We assembled a 17-foot work table where the kayak will be built, but it was such a good spot to stretch some canvasses, Rebecca took a canvas-stretching detour from boatbuilding. I love seeing a collection of new, white canvasses, just waiting to become paintings. There's so much promise, so much potential. For as long as I've known Rebecca, I've enjoyed witnessing the progress of a painting, the sketches and studies leading up to it, the care she puts into preparing the canvasses, and finally the painting itself, which inevitably becomes something I couldn't have forseen. Hopefully the kayak's progress will be more craft than art, and the finished product will unsurprisingly become the vessel we're expecting.
In other news, The Maritime Cafe, as Dave & Dawn's winter incarnation of the restaurant, has closed. It will open again as usual for the summer, but I guess that March traffic wasn't enough to keep it going. We'll all miss it.
3/7: Ames Pond Show Deadline Looms
Rebecca Daugherty
Hey artists- only 24 days left to get in your entries for the Ames Pond show we're planning for this summer. We're hoping to publish a nice little catalogue for this show, which is part of the reason we're asking for entries now. I've already received some excellent work, but I'm hoping we'll get just the right combination to put together an exciting, top-quality show.
For more info, go to our Call For Entries page.
3/6: Kayaking, Basketball, Art
Maybe one of these days, instead of putting kayaking snapshots on here, we'll just start a kayaking blog, but for now, this was our destination on Sunday: Gooseberry Island, just south of McGlathery. This is looking southeast, with Fog and Marshall Islands in the distance. We were paddling around McGlathery and noticed some nice waves rolling in on Gooseberry, so we went out to investigate. Found this nice little beach and ate some of Dawn's wonderful focaccia with roasted tomatoes from the Maritime Cafe (I'd brought it along- they don't deliver... yet).
Oh yes: MARINERS RULE! Yeah, the high school basketball team won the state championship in their division. I even made a rare trip to Bangor (last time? one or two years ago) to see the game. Glad I did.
Here's another one of Rebecca's new Roadwork paintings. This one is here at Isalos.
Rebecca Daugherty, Roadwork: Two Guys with Shovels,
oil on panel, 10" x 10", $425
3/2: Go Mariners!
Rebecca Daugherty, Roadwork: Paving, Gallery, oil/panel, 10" x 10"
This is one of Rebecca's new roadwork paintings. It's still in the show "The Nature of Things" at West Virginia Wesleyan College, which also features work by Vaino Kola and Barbara Southworth. If this one comes back to us, I think we would be wise to just hang on to it. Yep, that big yellow building is Isalos, with paving going on in front of Town Hall.
At the moment, that stretch of asphalt is covered with a heavy goop of slush and ice. Today we've had quite a storm. It's past midnight and the plows are still going past, amber lights flashing against the buildings of Main Street. The moon is showing up above, though, and it sounds like the wind has calmed down. Maybe the roads will be clear enough for the exodus of Deer Islanders to Bangor tomorrow to see the Mariners, the high school basketball team, play the state championship game. I'm not a huge basketball fan, but the excitement is contagious. Last Saturday we stood on the roof as the motorcade of fire engines surrounding the team's bus came down main street blaring horns and sirens, followed by a parade of cars painted-up in Mariner colors all honking their horns. Fans screamed and held their index fingers aloft for anyone who might have been looking. Our cat hid in the back room and wouldn't come out till the cacaphony had completely died-down.
