Here I am at the Buddha Abide Show opening at the Frameworks Gallery in Santa Barbara with my daughter Mika and Lark Batteau Bailey who puts on the show every year. This year I submitted two pieces and they were both accepted. This is my 4th year of participation as I so believe in the work that Lark does. She donates a portion of the sales to Tenzin Lodoe in the Tibetan Children’s Village and the women who are assisted by The Domestic Violence Solutions in Santa Barbara.
Art for a cause! We all love to create art and what a better way to create and be able to donate to a good cause. I’m all for it and I know a lot of other artists are as well. Witness the great turnout.
The show has now been held over due to the ferocious Jesusita fire in Santa Barbara . They will have the First Thursday (that was postponed) this Thursday to again celebrate ART.
Lark did a really clever and fun addition to this year’s event. She had artists submit 5×5 pieces that are sold for only $50, what a great idea. I did 2 pieces for this and loved the size, so now I’m inspired to do a little series in this size. We’ll see what happens! . All the 5×5 pieces were brilliantly displayed by Christi the owner of Frameworks Gallery. 
Here is Lark with her fantasmagorical organic succulent strawberries that she served. I was lucky to go home with a basket full, which of course never made it that far as I ate them in the car on the way home they were so yummy! Kind of reminded me of the wild strawberries we had in Sweden that I ate growing up there.
I have donated one of my limited edition giclees to Heal the Bay
They will be having a fundraiser this evening at the Barker Hanger They do such great work in educating the community and preserving our coastline and beaches. I hope they do great tonight
This is “Spring Petunia II” printed on fine art water color paper.
This is one of a suite of 3 images.
Thursday May 28th
5:00pm
Barker Hangar by the Santa Monica Airport
Santa Monica, California
I just found out that I’m accepted into 2 simultaneous shows. One is the annual Santa Barbara Printmakers Open show, yeah! I had some formidable competition and the juror is a fine arts printmaker. It was a little intimidating, but all I can do is what’s in my heart.
The show is at the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Library 40 E Anapamu St Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
I will be gallery sitting on Saturday September 13thy from 10AM-2PM. Come by and visit, there is free parking at the adjacent structure.
The other exciting news is that for the first time I entered “The Art of the Book” Show at the San Buena Ventura Artist’s Union Gallery located at 330 South California Street Plaza, Ventura across from the Crown Plaza Hotel, right at the beach. It’s a great venue and I’m excited to be part of this show. The opening will be Saturday September 6th and I’ll be there as well,
After taking the summer off, I’m back at printmaking again and – getting ready for the Santa Barbara Printmakers annual Open show. I spent a whole day and into the evening in my studio last weekend. I was working on incorporating my intaglio etchings with monotypes as well as chine colle. I know, it may sound like Greek to some of you, but printmakers will know what I’m talking about. After a couple of frustrating hours of trying to make it happen, I finally got it and as I’ve come to find out, magical things happen once we let go and allow it. So once again that’s what occurred, I let go and it happened, I was happy with my print.
My inspiration for the piece that I entered into the juried Santa Barbara Printmakers Show was that of working with the girls at the Aviva Grad House. I spent a whole weekend in my studio and this is the piece that I entered.
It was with excitement great anticipation that I attended the first Thursday opening event in Santa Barbara at the Gallery 3 East. As I turned the corner I saw the small red dot indicating a sale. How exciting, someone loved my vision enough to want it in their space. I was fortunate to meet Jill who purchased the piece. She recounted to me her connection to the framed monotype that I named “All you need is Love”. It was such an honor to be thanked for creating this piece.
I will never forget the look on the girl’s faces when they entered the gallery and saw for the first time their work displayed on the walls of the Tracy Park Gallery. It was jubilation along with teary eyes for us all. I was so proud of them for their honesty and purity of heart. It was heartwarming to see how proud they were of their work and know that I had somehow made a little difference in their lives. Hopefully it was to be a steppingstone to a more positive self image.
Here they are seeing their work for the first time
I just got back from hanging the girls art work at the gallery. It looks amazing, I think they are going to be quite surprised at the work they did and to see it in a real art gallery. I am honored to have been able to participate as a photography workshop leader to a group of teenage girls at the Aviva Family and Children’s Services. I hope you can join us, it will certainly be a worthwhile evening.
Art Explosion is an exhibit for the community to experience artwork created by some of the children and families participating in Free Arts for Abused Children’s creative expression programs.
Saturday, June 14th
7 to 10pm
TRACY PARK GALLERY
1431 Ocean Avenue
Santa Monica
(between Broadway and Santa Monica)
The theme for this year’s exhibit is
“The Story My Heart Has to Tell…” including sculpture, mixed media, photography and more.
Including a silent auction with artwork from the volunteer artists inspired by their work with the children.
I had a great show in Sedona, sold a couple of pieces. One was a brand new image, I had just made the plate and printed only one print a couple of weeks prior. A nice young man bought it for his wife.
Of course it’s always fun to see Gary and Andrea Smith. Here we are at my artist reception Saturday May 24th.
Greetings from Sedona!
I have been invited by the Andrea Smith Gallery located in the famous and quite charming Tlaquepaque Gallery complex, to exhibit my Buddha images.
The opening is Saturday May 24th 11 AM ~ 4 PM. I will also be there on Sunday during the same hours. I hope to meet some of you there and to share my passion for my art.
Some of the images are photographs printed on canvas and on museum stretcher bars others are photo polymer etchings, intaglio prints that I have hand printed on my new etching press. I’m excited to see what Sedona has to say about the art.
It’s Memorial Day Weekend, and even though the weather changed from 90 degrees last week to 60’s cool and today a little drizzle, I am told that the town gets busy on holiday weekends.
I am grateful for this opportunity and extend a warm Mahalo to Gary and Andrea Smith. I look forward to a great show and hope to see you there.
Aloha
Christina
Hello everyone,
I have 2 wonderful announcements to make, I am going to be in 2 shows simultaneously in Santa Barbara.
Spring is always a special time for me, not only is it my birthday time (April 4th) but it just seems like it’s a new beginning, new and fresh energy. Us Aries love new beginnings! I might even be in another show in Ventura, I’ll keep you posted.
The first show will be through the Santa Barbara Art Association (of which I’m a member) at the Gallery 113 in Santa Barbara. My show’s theme is REFLECTIONS. I will be exhibiting 10 of my monotypes that I have made in my studio on my new press and I ‘m excited to be able to share these. I had a lot of fun working on this project as I had no time constraints and just go lost in the moment that usually ended up to be several hours.
The opening reception is Thursday April 3rd from 5-8 PM. Santa Barbara has ART NIGHT on the first Thursday of every month, go check it out. There are special exhibits, demonstrations, music, food and lots of art at all the galleries. It’s a very festive and fun evening, a great date night.
The “Reflections” exhibit will run until Saturday April 26th
Gallery 113
1114 State Street
No 8 La Arcada Court
Santa Barbara
Gallery Hours
Mon ~ Sat 11am ~ 5 pm
Sun 1 am ~ 5pm
AND today I got juried in to the Buddha Abide Show also in Santa Barbara at the Frame Works /Caruso Woods Art Gallery located at 813 Anacapa Street This is the 8th year of this incredible show, I have been fortunate to be selected to participate in the last 3 shows. It’s great show with 20% of the profits being donated to Santa Barbara Domestic Violence Solutions and Tibetan Children’s Village.
Hope to see you in Santa Barbara, would love to hear from you
Christina
