artistic inspirations
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Nonsense Botany and the Owl and Pussycat update
Recently the Caplan Art Designs gallery hung what’s left of my nonsense botany on the gallery window wall! How nice is this? Here are the gallery details https://caplanartdesigns.com/ The gallery is relocating my Owl and Pussycat exhibit, starting Nov 23, to the south waterfront Daily Cafe at the tram. This is a popular public transit hub…
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Opening party and an interview of me
Upcoming is the second opening of my fine art exhibit “The Owl and the Pussycat” at Burnt Bridge Cellars via Caplan Art Designs happens July 11th ! A few printed copies of my book are available at the winery or via this link (in either print or ebook forms) https://www.blurb.com/b/12431156-the-owl-and-the-pussycat-art-album I read aloud as I…
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The Owl and Pussycat opening party
As they say in show business “the show must go on”… the week of my opening party for my series of paintings inspired by Edward Lear’s poem “The Owl and the Pussycat” I had a severe allergic reaction to some eye medication. Went to the doctor the day before my big event and got new…
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The Owl and Pussycat exhibit installation
At Burnt Bridge Cellars, my wife, Judy, Mark Mahan, the winery owner, and I installed my one person exhibit on Tuesday. My exhibit opening party is Friday, June 6, 2025 and the exhibit will run through the end of July. The gallery that represents my work, Caplan Art Designs, will handle questions and sales. I…
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Nearing the Bong-tree and the runcible spoon hour
This week I’m delivering all of my new artworks for a one-person exhibit at the urban winery Burnt Bridge Cellars. Currently my studio looks like this. Via one of the galleries that represents my work year around, Caplan Art Designs, I’m exhibiting 13 of my newest artworks at Burnt Bridge Cellars during both June and…
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Framing things
I’m working on framing my fine art for upcoming exhibitions via the Caplan Art Designs Gallery this year. I’ve finished 13 new artworks to be shown, via the gallery, at the winery Burnt Bridge Cellars in June and July 2025 and these new ones along with more new art will be included in another exhibit…
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Studio nonsense
Since Jan 2025 I’ve become increasingly alarmed by the US Republican regimes manipulations of words and their meanings. Specifically their tactics of outright lies, lies by ommission, goal-post moving, gaslighting, DARVO, hypocrisy, book bans, censorship, the firing of people, random closures of government departments, the cessation of record keeping, the removal of photos/documents from historical…
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Call-and-Response: “Strawberry Balloon” – poem by Elizabeth Gauffreau (art by Clancy)
One of my favorite types of blog posts is the call-and-response, when a piece of creative expression I see online prompts me to create something of my own in response to it. In this instance, artist Sue Clancy posted the latest addition to her whimsical menagerie, the porcupine Spike Prickly, borne aloft by a strawberry…
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PSA about art and humanity
I write today in support of my fellow local artists and all artists everywhere. You are more important and more necessary now than ever. And it doesn’t matter that you’re not famous – what matters is that you are creating something. Art relates to our humanity like water relates to the thirsty body. I write…
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Around the block
My one-person fine art exhibit at the Caplan Art Designs Gallery is opening Oct 3 from 6 to 8pm and the exhibit will run throughout October. I’ll admit that of all my new artworks the one mentioned in this post is the one I’m most looking forward to seeing people playing with during the reception.…
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