2nd Annual Emerging/Converging Juried Exhibition

I am humbled and delighted...

I have just received notification

that two of my works

have been selected for inclusion in the

2nd Annual Emerging/Converging Juried Art Exhibition

presented by

464 Gallery(www.464gallery.com).

The works are:

"Release"

(acrylics on canvas, 40" x 30")

and

"Weeping Moon

(acrylics on canvas, 30" x 40")

The exhibit will run from

May 17, 2012 - September 16, 2012

11th and 12th floor offices

of the Damon Morey Law Firm

http://www.damonmorey.com

Avant Building

http://www.avantbuffalo.com

Buffalo, NY.

Opening reception is May 17, 2012, 6 - 9 pm

Spring is Just Around the Corner, or so They Said!

Here it is...April in Western New York

...April 23rd as a matter of fact. 

It is usually the time

when leaves are budding out, 

blossoms are beginning to open ever so slightly, 

baby birds and bunnies and 

other little critters are blinking their sleepy little eyes 

to view the world...

but not today, oh, no, today we have

 SNOW!

We awoke this morning to the first tiny flakes 

of snow beginning to fall around 7:45 am...

...for once, the forecasters' were right!  

Go figure.

Lucky for us, we had scrounged through the storage area 

and located plastic tubs

to use as protective covers for the daylilies. 

And so, for your viewing - 

I now give you the day 

as it is unfolding

atop our hill 

on this April day

while the snow continues to fall. 

East Aurora Art Walk & My Art Opening/Reception...yowza

I'm over-bubbling with joy.  

Earlier today, I delivered 

a collection of paintings 

to Ashwood Artisans (www.ashwoodartisansgallery.com)

in preparation for my upcoming

art opening & reception set for May 4th.

As Diane Lehmann (the gallery owner) and I 

looked through the paintings, 

we discussed the various vignettes 

for hanging the works, 

and my joy began to bubble.

Then, I picked up a copy of the local East Aurora newspaper. 

Right there, on the monthly Arts Page

was the article about my art show.  

My joy bubbled and bubbled. 

But, it was as I was leaving Ashwood Artisans 

that Diane handed me the postcard 

for the East Aurora Art Walk... 

and right there... 

top row...

second image from the left... 

was my painting, "Cardinal in Flight"

My joy bubbled up and bubbled over and bubbled out!

I drove home 

feeling deeply humbled by Gratitude.

awash in Excitement. 

imbued with Joy...

I'm thinking a bubble bath 

might just be the most bubble-iscious

way to top off this day!

(more of my new paintings are now posted on 

the Gallery Walk on my website:

www.wordsbysusie.com

and if you're ever on facebook...

check out my ongoing ArtCyberJournal at

Susie Kelly Flatau Artworks

Yowza!

Susie Kelly Flatau | Enjoy The Journey Art Gallery

Susie Kelly Flatau | Enjoy The Journey Art Gallery

I am delighted to be associated with Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery in West Seneca, NY.  Life IS good.

Sacred in the Ordinary, Installation #9: Mr. Fox on the Front Lawn, 4.12.12

I was dreaming, lost in a deep-deep slumber, when I heard Jack's voice, far-far away, calling me.  "Susie...(he called) I need a box...I need a box."  What?  What's wrong? my mind questioned.  Feeling groggy, I tried to figure out why he needed a box, and why he sounded so urgent.  "Was Jack hurt?" My mind screamed, "Get up...now!"  My heart leapt... 

I scrambled to kick back the covers that were twisted about my body; I scrambled to find my glasses on the bedside table.  And then, I scrambled--kind of in one of those "I feel drunk" attempts to walk when waking from a dream that has been holding you under its heavy hands--out of the bedroom, down the three steps into the dining room...and there was Jack, pointing out the front windows.  He didn't look hurt...he looked excited!

I looked.  I saw. There was a Mr. Fox on our front lawn.

This is the second fox we've spied on the gentle land that slopes away from our house toward the brush line.  The other was much smaller, more reddish, and much more shy as he (or she?) remained very close to the edge of the milkweed and Multiflora rose and dogwoods.  

But not this fellow.  No.  

He was tracking something -- a scent of the bobbed-tail squirrel that plays in that same area?  

The scent of deer urine--yeah, those guys hang out in our front lawn, too.  Or what?

I grabbed my camera and began to snap pics. 

He sniffed here.... 

he sniffed there...

he follow that scent to the east...

to the south...

and then he stopped...and sniffed some more... 

but after a short while, he must have decided that it was time to go...so he headed onward... 

...and up the driveway toward the side lawn.  

Isn't he a marvelous fellow?  What a sacred, sacred gift to be given so early in the morning.

I walked over to pour myself a cup of coffee, and I just smiled...

Jack wasn't yelling "I need a box"...of course not...

"I see a fox;  I see a fox!" was what he called out in excitement.

I love that man... 

Funny, isn't it, how words can get so scrambled 

when you are so deep into a dream.   

Ideas Become Real at the Point of Action...

New Website Re-design with emphasis on my Artist's Life....sharing...sending out the Ripple....

www.wordsbysusie.com

namaste

Sacred in the Ordinary, Installation #8: Tommy Turkey Trotting and Tree Sittin'

The past week has been amazing.  Warmer weather arrived in Western New York, the sunshine has smiled upon us day after day, and nature has begun to celebrate.  Not only are we starting to see signs of leaves budding out on some of the trees and shrubs...but, oh, my...our little feathered friends are doing their own style of "budding out."  Romance is in the air.  Nests are being cozied up for the arrival of new babies.  AND ... one big Tom Turkey has been strutting his stuff.

While working in our home office several days ago, a sudden movement outside the window caught my eye...I glanced right...and there HE was...Tom, Tom the Turkey Tom...just strolling across our back lawn.  

Then days later, while sipping on a morning cup of coffee and chatting over the phone with my brother, Gary, another sudden movement outside the dining room window caught my eye.  In the far distance, downhill from where our home sits, two giant birds were lumbering through the air toward a copse of tall pine trees.  I hopped up and exclaimed to Gary--"oh, my gosh, wait...what is that?  what are those birds?"  

As I took a closer look -- I realized I was watching two large turkeys flying to roost atop the pine trees.  I told Gary I'd have to talk with him later.  I grabbed my camera and darted out the front door 

to try to capture this moment. 

Here is the little story as it unfolded.

One of the turkeys took his (or was it a "her"?) place 

atop a 30' pine tree...there he was...just sitting...

and gazing to the east...

and then he began to cluck-cluck (or however you'd describe that sound turkeys make) and look around...

slowly he craned his long neck and looked west...

and then he cluck-clucked some more, and turned his gaze 

straight at me...

uh-oh...I had been spotted!

There we were...the two of us, locked in a gaze...

neither daring to move...both just gazing, gazing. 

Then...with a thwump-thwump-thwump...

up he rose off the peak of that pine tree. 

Into the air he flew, following a half-circle arc.  

With wings spread, he flew in my direction. 

In my excitement, I snapped only the onset of his flight...

but the joy is that he flew directly overhead--

only about 15 feet above me...

and I swear, I could hear the 

th-wump th-wump th-wump of air being forced outward 

in doppler ripples by his wings as he flew out of sight... JOY!

Fly, Tommy Turkey, Fly!