I’ve been silent for a while… It’s been a rough year…and as I reflect on the changes in my life and how those changes have impacted my art life, I realize that I’ve been swimming around in a sepia sea for all that time. Searching for a life raft of inspiration of ideas to express my perspective in art during this time of seclusion.
Now, don't get me wrong, I know that I am not alone in this; many of my artists’ friends have been in the same boat….some working through the void and uncertainty, and some like me not doing so well. My ideas and my color palette had changed, images coming clumsily along and mostly muddy renditions of the colors that use to flow out of me with ease. My Modus Operandi is generally from a happier spirit place.
Last Fall, I decided to move back into my secluded home and studio in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, after almost three years of being away. I knew the minute I walked through the door that I had made the right decision, moving back where family, friends, my art studio/gallery, and the art community reside.
It has taken months to settle back into my sanctuary, and I can feel the pulse returning slowly to my creative soul, showing up in small works of art ideas. Inspired by walks on the beautiful white sand beach along the Gulf of Mexico's turquoise water, the colors began slowly returning to my spirit. Gratitude, Harmony, Peace, and Creativity are my mantra now.
My studio vibrations have begun to change with a new rhythm of a slower pace to contemplate new ideas and images and revisited some techniques I have used in the past during the playtime segment of my art practice.
I am feeling very optimistic…looking forward to inviting you back for a visit to experience the creative magic of my studio, where wood, ink, paper, and etching press, dance with the muse.
A place where poetry and melody and nature join as partners in a daily score of an Enchanted ARTIST’S LIFE.
Onward and Upward!
Marti
“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. Voltaire”