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Starting point

A year of selling a house, buying a house, and moving cross country kind of put me in artmaking purgatory. And I wondered how to jump start my studio practice again…or whether that was even the right question. I recognize that I work best when I am researching a theme, writing about it, drawing a bit, reading; but I have been questioning the motivation behind what I see as my, sometimes,…

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#art process #artmaking process #drawing with powdered graphite #studio practice

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Raw materials—influences and ingredients

Raw materials—influences and ingredients

       Doodling from my sketchbook Finding ideas and processes to explore a new idea—that’s what I’m thinking about these days. It’s about mapping intimate geography: reappearing patterns, personal space, favorite symbols, and the passage of time. A lot of stuff. I want a sense of rawness and spontaneity…and obscured meaning in the work I create. So far I’ve been working with paintings on canvas,…

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#abstract art #abstract painting #artmaking process #interpreting art #painting process #parallel geographies #Shavian alphabet

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Just a reminder! My paintings are up at Las Placitas Presbyterian Church. The opening reception for the Sept PAS exhibition is this coming Sunday, Sept 18 from 2-3 pm. Please come! The exhibition is up until Oct 7 and hours at the church are 10-2, Wed thru Fri and 8-1 on Sunday. … in Placitas on Hwy 165. #rebeccanoldaartist #nmartist #contemporaryart #placitasartistseries https://www.instagram.com/p/CigdFw8rr53/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Four of the eight paintings I’ll be exhibiting at the start of the new Placitas Artists Series season Sept 18! The reception is 2-3 pm at Las Placitas Presbyterian Church, Hwy 165 in Placitas. Concert at 3 pm. More info at placitasarts.org. Please come! #rebeccanoldaartist #placitasrartistsseries #abstractartist #abstractpainting #newmexicoart #parallelgeographies https://www.instagram.com/p/CiJaRdkO60X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A couple of partial pages from the concertina sketchbook I’ve been working on since last November—almost done, 70 pages in all! Lots of experimenting… #rebeccanoldaartist #studiotime #sketchbookdrawing #markmaking #karenstamperinfluence #creativeartmaking #artprocess https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb58vcwvUNh/?utm_medium=tumblr

#rebeccanoldaartist #studiotime #sketchbookdrawing #markmaking #karenstamperinfluence #creativeartmaking #artprocess

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Silence and art

I was thinking about the relationship between making art and silence and looking for some insight…so, I’ve been reading the book Silence by Robert Sardello. Really, more like wading through it. I’ve been puzzled by the reviews and comments that are included in the book’s foreword. Based on those comments, I supposed that the writing would be straightforward and would easily lead me into a…

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#abstract art #art process #artmaking process #Peter Matthiessen #silence #Where Inspiration Lives

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My first ever garden tour “painting” experience …four color pencil drawings from two gardens. One with lovely red Adirondack chairs in the midst of garden trails and the other with a love of Talavera pottery. This is way different for me!! #rebeccanoldaartist #nmartist #placitasgardentour #colorpencildrawing #gardensketching https://www.instagram.com/p/CUJI4KlL-TC/?utm_medium=tumblr

#rebeccanoldaartist #nmartist #placitasgardentour #colorpencildrawing #gardensketching

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So happy to have a painting in this exhibition in Fort Collins! #3squareartgallery #nmartist #rebeccanoldaartist #abstractpainting #contemporaryart https://www.instagram.com/p/CT3hY4ML-cM/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Candid shot in my studio during the Placitas Studio Tour last weekend (thank you for the photo, Vicki!). A big thank you to everyone who came by the studio. You made my weekend! #placitasstudiotour #rebeccanoldaartist #contemporarypainting #nmartist #artiststudio https://www.instagram.com/p/CTSVpwTrqL4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Three new paintings for the Placitas Studio Tour which is this coming weekend! 10 to 5 Saturday and Sunday, Aug 28 and 29. I’m studio 46 and will be offering a big discount on everything! Download the map and brochure at https://www.placitasstudiotour.com/. Oh, and masks are required per the new mandate. I’ll be wearing one, too. #rebeccanoldaartist #placitasstudiotour #studiowork #nmartist #abstractpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CS-j2hiroJb/?utm_medium=tumblr

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All about the studio...outside, a focused me, inside big, inside mess, and my muse (greyhound) in place. #studio #artspace #workingartists #nmartist #rebeccanoldaartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CObE0Q-L-tk/?igshid=sq2iff595e6a

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Influenced by a Katherine Chang Liu painting, I’m fiddling around with sketches of itinerant shapes that pop up. I was really caught up with pink in this one. It’s called Scrapbook 2 (acrylic, 48x54). #workinginseries #katherinechangliu #nmartist #rebeccanoldaartist #studio https://www.instagram.com/p/COYtPavFFrv/?igshid=1emn8hppri40o

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Desert hope

The invitation Hope doesn’t have a time limit and is an inside-out phenomenon. It’s like a soup of possibilities—needing all the ingredients of silence, observation, time, dissolution of self. When I look around me, walking, out in the desert, I feel that there is an intelligence at work, embodying hope. As if that intelligence is sifting through possibilities and incorporating them into the…

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#100DayProject #Gary Snyder #hope #Observing nature #Solstice to Equinox

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Back in the trees

Back in the trees

    Minnesota trees in late autumn It’s a gray day—clouds bumping around overhead, cold air. A little snow on the ground. It’s difficult to have a sense of time, of moving forward in any capacity—the time equivalent of trying to hear sound in an anechoic chamber. Time is COVID mushy and without boundaries, beginnings or endings. I was feeling a little out of sync with stuff until I came across…

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#100DayProject #authentic art #drawing trees #Forest Bathing #Solstice to Equinox #The Night Life of Trees

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A Tapestry

Continuing with the 100DayProject and my focus on continuity and connectivity… From what I have been reading in a variety of books, and from my own experiential evidence, I want to try tuning into the landscape here—have an openness to what is around me when I walk or when I stop to listen and look.  And then I want to come back to my studio and “ooze” it out into an art work…as if I could shed…

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#artmaking process #authentic art #connectivity in art #continuity in artmaking #John Wolseley #Mulkun Wirrpanda #natural world #Solstice to Equinox

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I’m delighted to be one of six artists featured this month by NM Women in the Arts , nmwomeninthearts.org/blog/january-2021-artist-spotlight. A big thank you! #rebeccanoldaartist #nmwomeninthearts #workingartist #nmartist #studiowork https://www.instagram.com/p/CJrA5rcFhwY/?igshid=1xca7445fdwm6

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100 Days!

Crumbling arroyo wall–blocks of dirt fall,  widening the wash I’ve signed up again this year for The100DayProject. Actually, I’m a little behind in posting, but not in thinking. The launch was the winter solstice, December 21st. I’ve been reading, reading, reading, and trying to sink into understanding a relationship between hope (a suggestion for the project), the span of time between the winter…

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#100DayProject #artmaking process #Christian McEwen #Connectivity #Continuity #Ma #philosophy #Solstice to Equinox #space and place