Union

Union

Happy February friends! In celebration of Love, and with the approach of Valentines Day (I can't believe it is around the corner already), I have added prints of this new painting to the shop. This is one of my paintings that has already sold at my show at Swallow, which is still up through the end of February.

I'm also offering a Valentines discount of 10% off of every order placed in my shop through February 14th, just enter code LOVELOVE at checkout!

My show is up!

From a wildly creative crazy mess in my studio (where I was still putting the finishing touches on a painting yesterday morning before the show went up)...

To Swallow Gallery, where first we placed them on the floor to group them...

And then, up on the walls they went...

I'm thrilled with how it all looks up on the walls and I'm so excited for the Opening Reception tonight! There are a few new paintings in the show that I've not shared here yet, that I am loving, I'll share here soon!

xo

Show at Swallow

As the holiday season approaches I always get excited about the merriment and joy that this time of year brings. This year I'm thrilled to be able to share that I am having a show during this special time of year,

Please join me for the Opening Reception of my new show Winged Blessings: New Work by Faith Evans-Sills

If you are in NYC I'd be thrilled to have you come and see my new paintings from the past two years in person, and have a glass of wine with me. I'd love to see you! The Opening Reception will be from 6 to 8pm on Thursday, December 2, 2010. At Swallow Gallery, 361 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY, between 2nd and Carrol Streets.
The show will run through February 2011, so if you don't get a chance to stop by the opening please visit the show at another time. Swallow is a great spot to pick up holiday gifts. I will have lots of small affordable originals for sale, along with prints and cards of my work.

I can't wait to see my new work up on the walls at Swallow again, my work fits there so well. Here is a shot from my last show there in 2009. I can't believe it was already over and year and a half ago, I've done so much new work since then!


Before I have a show I always get a little nervous, and pensive (I summed it up pretty well here last time), this time is no different. I'm pretty much running around like a crazy woman, getting last minute details finished, glazing paintings, still have to put the finishing touches on two of my paintings, then all in all I'll have 35 new paintings to put in this show. Horray. It is so fun to step back to survey the work that I have done, I think that is one of my favorite things about having a show. Its like putting the period at the end of a long sentence.


I'll be back soon to share glimpses of our holiday last week, and to share some peeks into the wonderful felting that the kids and I spent our weekend doing with the felt-a-licious class! Loving the felt!

xo 


P.S. You have until midnight EST tonight to use the coupon code "livelovegrow" to receive 20% off of everything in my shop for my Cyber Monday sale. Enjoy!

Out and About in Brooklyn

7th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn

I love Brooklyn in the springtime, it feels like everything is waking up and everyone has a spring in their step.
Tomorrow, Saturday the 24th, I'll be selling my prints, wood mounted prints and stationary at the Prospect Heights Craft Fair from 11AM to 6PM. I will be sharing a table with my friend Kristin of Pixie Petals who makes the prettiest organic jewelry with lovely beads and hammered metal.
If you are in Brooklyn I'd love it if you'd stop by our booth for a chat and a cup of tea. The Craft Fair will be hosted by P.S. 9 at 80 Underhill Avenue, between St. Marks and Bergen. Directions and lots of other fun information are on the website. The other artists who will be at the fair look really creative, I always find lots of inspiration at craft fairs, seeing what other artists are working on and how they display their work really energizes me.
With all of this sunshine and warmer weather this week, I'm having dreams of sitting out at cafes, planting and spending lots of time in the park in the days to come.

Holiday Fair

If you're in Brooklyn this Saturday, come by John Jay High School in Park Slope (7th Ave. bet. 4/5 St.) for holiday Leaves and Feathers! I'll be selling prints, stationary, and wood mounted prints at the Holiday Craft Show with my friend Kristin Breneman Eno, who has some lovely Jewelry--check out her work here.

Lot's of new wood mounted prints going up in my shop this weekend too!

Including this new image, Water Flower

I am so enjoying the response to the giveaway! There is still time to enter, until the solstice on Monday the 21st.

A child's perspective

As promised, here are a few of Jasper's photos from our opening the other night at The Brooklyn Creative League.
Frank and I each have about 6 framed prints up, and the show compares and contrasts how our work is so different as artists who are husband and wife....his latest work being so gritty-industrial and mine so earthy-ethereal.
There was some standing on chairs involved in the photography along with lots of photos of the floor and even of a roll of toilet paper. But having the camera definitely keeps Jasper happy, and I love the five year old energy and raw charm that come through. Plus, when I saw that he had taken this picture of the sunset over Brooklyn, out of the window of the loft space, I knew that he is a boy after my own heart.

Art, weather and a show

Tide

Deluge

Prints of these two new paintings are in the shop today. I guess that I'm thinking about water these days, Tide and Deluge...and the latest painting that I am still working on is already called Vapor.
I think what I am really wishing for is Snow! Where are you winter wonderland?
We are having the coldest weather yet this year in NYC, seriously 25 degrees?? I always feel that if it going to be cold then there might was well be snow to add a bit of beauty to the situation! But of course fires and Christmas decorating help a lot, and I do think that today some Christmas cookies might help even more.

Right now I'm so excited about Tide above, I have always been drawn to the idea of the never ending cyclical nature of the tide and the intrigue of those places where the sea and land meet.

Last night was the opening of my new show Collaborations: exhibits at the Brooklyn Creative League, it is a two person show, with my magnificent husband Frank. Jasper was my date to the opening as well as the evening's photographer, so I'll post some of those pictures later...the 5 year old perspective is always so refreshing.

open studios

Gowanus rooftops (winter), Francis Sills

This weekend Frank and I will be participating in the Gowanus Artists Open Studio Tour (AGAST), a two day open studio event with about 150 participating artists opening their studios in many converted warehouse buildings throughout the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. We'll be there on Saturday and Sunday, the 17th and 18th, from 1 to 6pm, showing our paintings and selling prints of our work.
This will be the 7th year that we have been involved with this event and it is such fun. It really feels like a huge art party as you walk from studio to studio, each with it's own mood that the art creates in the space, and wine and food flowing in each room. The energy is really exciting and everyone wants to talk about their art and meet people. We have enjoyed taking our kids on the tour, I love for them to be able to run around and see all of the different kinds of art...and they bring their electric kid energy , snacking in each room, playing ball in the long hallways and always making people smile.
If you are in New York come on by!
The painting above is one of Frank's that he'll be showing. Our studio building is towards the back of the painting, right next to the tall metal sign.

Opening!

The Opening of my show at Swallow was last night! What a wonderful time we all had. I hung the show with the gallery owners in the morning....well, I mainly watched as they expertly arraigned my work into beautiful groupings on the walls. Then we came back to the gallery in the evening to gather with friends, drink lovely wine and talk about my work. For me, it was a wonderful celebration to see this body of work up on the walls, finished and complete. I felt proud especially because it says everything that I want it to say.

As all artists know, there is nothing quite like hearing someone talk about your work as if they see inside your head while you are making it! This is a rare moment...and this happened for me last night, with this body of work. I recently reworked my artist statement, I will share it here soon, and I think that the act of reworking my ideas into words gave me a clarity of purpose in the work since January. I am learning what a blessing giving your self limitations can be!

I'll be enjoying memories of this celebration for a while!