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Artist's Assembled

3/14/2007 7:04:47 PM by Kate
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Last night I met with a group of artists at Amelia Caruso's and Jennifer Scott McLaughlin's studio. Jennifer and Amelia share a large warehouse type studio in downtown Ft. Collins. Jennifer is a very successful artist with high end galleries representing her work in Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Chicago, and she shared her road to success with the twenty or so artists gathered. It was quite an education. One of the key points she talked about is having focus in your work.  Both Amelia and Jennifer have a distinctive style, and it was a point well taken. I still struggle with my "identity" - not because I don't know who I am, but because I love painting so much, and enjoy painting in two different styles. My goal in the coming months is to choose one path and explore it indepth for one year. But which path? Oh, the indecision!

The painting depicted here is a bit of a hybrid - it is of a historic horse, Bucephalus (Alexander the Great's horse) but it is painted in a more realistic style.

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Kate...I love to see your work in gallery, and on-line, and someday on my walls. But as I read about indecision, I want to ask if you've read "Refuse to Choose" by Barbara Sher? Perhaps a browse though before you choose? Your path chasing your unique gifting may not look finely 'focused', but wide, expansive (like the skies you paint!)...Isn't that why God made some to be the illustrators of His world - which is at all times and in all places ever unique!

I am anxious for mr. robin to finish and grace my screen again! Kate

Posted by Kate Ryan · via web · 236 months ago

I haven't read the book, "Refuse to Choose" but I will get a copy. I think my indecision comes not from a lack of direction, since I know my calling is to paint the things I am passionate about - whether that be a landscape, sky, bird or horse. I guess I've been undecided as to whether my series of mythological horses represents too much of a departure from my other work. The Horse series is more conceptual in nature - the paintings much more dream-like, less "realistic." But I have always been one to take the side roads, to explore and make my own path, rather than follow the main road. So perhaps Kate is right when she says maybe my path is to be expansive. Maybe there is no indecision after all.

Posted by Kate · via web · 236 months ago

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