DISCOVERIES

ART & FEAR by Bayles and Orland gives quite good information about being an artist in our culture. Brass tacks, down to Earth observations gives insight into the scarcity of art in this current USA dominated world. Liana Thomchesson recommended this book to me.

So-o-o I am going through my mother's papers, possessions stored away, abandoned some 16 years ago. She died only a year ago but these are the things left in her mobile home. Whatever madness she had, it danced. In her letters and remnants. In magazines full of pasted card, photographs and letters.

photo by Rick Patrick

photo by Rick Patrick

And Bayles and Orland say there have been cultures without wheels, windmills or computers but there has never been a culture without art. Mom couldn't keep accounts or fit into our culture. But she did make ART. 

DISCOVERY!

I am bringing home portable painted objects from my mother's mobile home. Last Saturday, 3/14/15 on the first anniversary of Geraldine's death, I discovered another artwork, painted on both sides. It is about (h) 24" x 14", acrylic on composition board.

Front side

On the reverse

GERALDINE'S MOBILE HOME/ART

My brother, Riley, and I went to Mom's mobile home. We started a clean-up and removing portable artworks.

Mobile home in the woods

Some of the pieces are furniture.

kitchen chair

chest of drawers

kitchen table

Some are paintings on stretched canvas. The canvas is in good shape in some places, rotting in other places. It is impressive how well the painted pieces stand-up to the years of abandonment, damp, and critters.

Scene from Amsterdam, acrylic on canvas

bedroom curtain and wall

This curtain is painted on both sides! I was so startled when I took it down to find an oriental design on the inside.

I'm going back for more this coming week-end. I'm planning on getting a professional photographer to document this piece of "visionary art" before the sale of the property goes through.

LIANA THOMCHESSON

Liana Thomchesson's sculpture at City Hall

Liana couldn't come to the Reception but her work is right by the elevator on the 3rd Floor. Great location!

MILL AND LEAF SIGN

This is the last week of the sign in front of Mill and Leaf. It has been quite a sensation for me to see this!!!!!!!!!! I'm really shy in person.

Mill and Leaf at the Arboretum

Deb Otto made this sign

In Front of the Gallery

SOLD

Another painting to a good home. I took ARTS & CRAFTS down to deliver to its new owner and put another painting in its place at MILL AND LEAF at the Arboretum.

ARTS AND CRAFTS

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

The replacement painting is called ME AND MOM. It has that buffalo grass and sense of wind in my hair. She played the piano beautifully!

ME AND MOM

MILL AND LEAF BLOG

Mill and Leaf has posted about me on their Blog!! 

Visit this blog for a biography of myself! The opening was grand! Lots of nibbles and one sale. I will be at this Art and Furniture Gallery on Feb. 28th, Saturday afternoon, 3 PM, to discuss commissions.

http://millandleafblog.com/2015/02/12/melanie-hickerson-life-and-art-intertwined/

Here are a couple of drawings of siblings.

CARMYN, pencil on paper, 15" x 11"

AYDEN, pencil on paper, 15" x 11"