Oldie but Goodie

This small oil was sold a few years ago. When I lived in Arizona, I taught several painting workshops at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum where I had the privilege of staying in a casita on the grounds of the museum. Going to sleep each night to the sounds of coyotes yipping (and a scorpion sharing the shower with me) was quite an experience. 

Perhaps I need to paint more cacti...

Sonoran Gems

8x8 oil on panel

Wish I Might

Wish I Might

8 x 8 oil on panel

SOLD 

A New Painting Project!

My son, Shane Rebenschied, has challenged me to a painting project. He's the boss for the project but all we've agreed upon at this point is that it won't be a painting-a-day (maybe 3 a week?) and we'll work on 6 x 6 gallery wrapped canvases. At this time, we're unsure of subject matter or the total number of paintings.

Aren't I supposed to be enjoying my golden years? Oh well - as I've realised over the past five years, I'd rather be an old artist that just an old lady and most days, I am in the studio anyway. I guess I'll just be in there a bit longer.

Stay tuned!

New Zealand Tui - 8x6 oil on panel

This oil study is from a previous painting project and has sold

“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”

― Jack London

 Silent Witness

10 x 8 oil on panel

This recent oil has just arrived at Mountain Trails Gallery in Sedona, Arizona.  

Aspen in progress

This little piece isn't finished, therefore it isn't titled. It's an 8 x 8 oil, work in progress. When I'm not sure if a painting is finished, I turn it to the wall for a week or two, then will take a fresh look. Sometimes it has miraculously improved while against the wall. At other times I can see that it needs to be tweaked, or occasionally, it goes straight into the bin.

Aspen - work in progress

8 x 8 oil on panel

Free Rein

I mentioned in an earlier blog that I like to paint series of subject matter. This oil is one of four 16 x 8 yachts that I painted for Horton Hayes Fine Art Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina. Horton Hayes has represented me for perhaps 18 years. My home town, Opua, is in the Bay of Islands in the Far North of New Zealand's North Island. There are 144 islands total, some being rocky outcrops and a couple with a few occupants. It is a mecca for sailing enthusiasts. Many local friends have boats and will spend a few days out on the water, anchoring overnight in sheltered bays. I was sailing with friends out on the bay when I saw this yacht as it was leaving New Zealand for the Islands. But nowadays, I only sail when the sea is like a duck pond. There is nothing worse than being seasick. 

A Following Sea

 Since moving home to New Zealand, I've been painting a lot of marine-inspired pieces. I live in Opua, New Zealand's northernmost port where yachties sail in to clear customs and immigration. Besides the international community of yachts that come and go, New Zealanders are avid sailors so there is no shortage of inspiring subject matter. 

A Following Sea

30 x 40 Oil on stretched canvas 

SOLD