by DCadmin | Mar 19, 2022 | Events, Exhibitions, Updates
I two small honors to celebrate with two exhibitions for you to visit. Arts Connect will be on view in the Fried Family and Rankin Galleries in in the Catamount Arts Building until April 10 on Wednesdays-Sundays, noon until 9 pm, St Johnsbury, VT. My...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 2, 2022 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Workshops
Join us for a five session workshop on painting and drawing with cold wax medium, R&F Pigment Sticks and oils. Painting with Cold Wax, R&F Pigment Sticks & Oils Fridays, January 28; February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022, 2:00 – 5:00 pm $250 RAA&M Members / $275...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 11, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions
I am still attending the Yellow Chair Salon, along with almost 50 other artists from all over the world. Our groups meet every other week, present our work first to each other and then to guest artists. Kara Rooney, Glenn Goldberg, Elizabeth Condon, Paul...
by DCadmin | Sep 25, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
If you live near Falmouth, Massachusetts, here’s a chance for an in-person workshop in Encaustic Painting, from the beginning. Get a hands-on experience of working with molten, pigmented beeswax to create layered paintings. Encaustic painting can be translucent,...
by DCadmin | Sep 6, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing
The days are shortening, and cool now in the morning here in New Hampshire, but still stunningly beautiful. September always brings an excitement, a sense of things stirring, an anticipation. I imagine it’s a habit from school terms restarting in September. New...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Interviews
I’m so pleased to have been featured in a post by Dietlind Vander Schaaf in R&F Paints’ blog, Unique Color, both for a painting of mine that is in their permanent collection and for being one of their newly-formed group of Tier Artists. As Tier Artists...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Workshops
Part interactive and live work time, part work-share and group crit, part Q & A and technique demonstration. We make these weekly 3-hour online.sessions what you need. Explore painting and drawing with oils, encaustic, cold wax medium, and/or R&F Blending...
by Debra Claffey | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
SELECTIONS FROM THE YELLOW CHAIR SALONS CURATED BY MICHAEL DAVID Since June of 2020, I have been studying with a wonderful group of artists in a virtual residency created by artist Michael David, the folks at M. David & Co. gallery in Bushwick, Cherie Mittenthal,...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 21, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates
I am pleased and honored to announce that my teaching connection with R & F Paints in Kingston, New York, has been made official. They have included me in the Tier Artist roster, along with Lorraine Glessner in Pennsylvania, Shelley...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 1, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
My friend and colleague, Camille Davidson, has invited me to exhibit at the Gallery in Readfield. The Gallery in Readfield is located in central Maine. Camille organizes visual art exhibitions, artist talks, and musical performances in the space. Of course, for the...
