The post card invitation to my first solo exhibit.

Honestly, I can’t believe it’s been 20 years. I’d participated in many group shows, but for a practicing artist, a solo show was like a debut.

“The Extraordinary in the Ordinary:
Celebrating the art in everyday life”

In every moment of every day, everywhere I go, I see something extraordinarily beautiful and inspiring.

When I left my day job to work at home as a commercial artist, fine artist and writer on January 1, 2000 I had worked as a freelance writer and graphic designer for years while still working full time. But I also had an active art career, painting regularly in addition to my commissioned portraits, member of a dozen art leagues and organizations and participating in art exhibits monthly all over the area, with many awards and good sales.

One of the primary reasons I left my day job to work at home was to have more time to develop my career as a fine artist and “get to my writing” whatever that worked out to be, so one of my first priorities, since I already had a list of regular customers, was to plan my first solo art exhibit. I remembered a phrase, “the extraordinary in the ordinary”, and I knew it fit well with my work: finding those moments that took my breath away and interpreting them as best I could in whatever medium seemed to suit the moment best, from my cats to landscapes to flowers and the streets of my home town. The artwork I chose for the exhibit was, well, just about everything I’d done to that point in my life…I’m a little embarrassed when I think about it, but I was almost afraid I’d never have another chance. I also included several poems and collections of rocks and other wild things I treasured.

Some of the works I included in that show are still some of my favorites, and the works on which I built the rest of my career as an artist.

I don’t want to recreate the wheel, so I’m going to send you to the page on this website where I have all the information and images for this exhibit. Read more about it, see more of the artwork and see the program and the posters I made of my poetry and artist’s statements to include in the show on 2000: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, included in my page of Exhibits.

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