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Strasburg Studio Archives: Rediscovery in the Stacks
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S P E L L B O U N D
April SPOTLIGHT : "Spellbound"
48 x 24", oil on birch panel, 2023.
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Thank you for joining me on this monthly trip through the archives of my studio.
Spellbound, 48 x 24”, oil on birch panel, 2023.
Despite the fact we’ve had some early and epic warm weather on the west coast, I lingered long in my hibernation this winter, not wanting to poke my head out too far.
Quietly and diligently I have been working in my studio building a new show which will debut at Sullivan Goss in Santa Barbara this summer. The impending exhibition has been yet another good “reason” not to venture far from home.
There are still the distractions swirling outside the studio door but inside spring is blossoming, sun is shining, the sea sparkles and trees tower overhead.
This month’s spotlight brings us back to beauty for beauty’s sake. Spellbound is the perfect launch back into the archives. It is a painting celebrating the singular weather along the shore of the Santa Barbara channel. The marine layer hugging the coastline creates a luminous ethereal quality, radiating diffuse light and color.
It is a place between presence and disappearance, where time loosens its grip and the ordinary becomes quietly enchanted—a reminder that beauty often arrives not in clarity, but in the tender blur of what cannot quite be held.
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Spellbound was created in 2023 for the exhibition Surfacing at Sullivan Goss. It featured in the catalog produced for the show, but in my opinion it hasn’t gotten enough attention, spending only a few weeks on the wall before coming home to the studio. It happens to be a favorite and currently hangs in my home where I get to enjoy it until the time comes for it to live abroad.
Cloud Spotting, 21.5 x 48”. oil on birch panel, 2023.
Currently on the wall in the Sullivan Goss Spring Salon is Cloud Spotting, 21.5 x 48", oil on birch panel. Also created for the exhibition Surfacing in 2023, the painting is on view through April 15, 2026.
