Spring!

 By Tom

It’s finally spring!  Not calendar spring, the vernal equinox of March 20, but the tangible spring that you can see and feel.  Green grass, flowers, blossoming trees, warm sun and running streams.  Time to get out and get busy.  It’s time to move the snow blower to the back of the garage and get the mower ready.   And we’re working in the garden today.   But I can’t help grabbing my camera from time to time.  Last night’s rain is still clinging to the daffodils, and I can’t resist a shot.  Gotta go now, it’s too nice to be inside.  Enjoy your day!

Getting Back to Work

by Cate Gundlah

After a long, cold winter, I have finally gotten back to my studio in Parksville, NY. Since loaning my house in NJ to my daughter, her husband and my 3 grandchildren, I have moved house to NYS. So, between packing up a house I've lived in for 25 years, doing construction at my home in NY and moving all of my glass, bead making and jewelry supplies from both homes to my unfinished studio, I am getting back to my (sigh) glass.
The first picture is of my lampwork (beads) area, the second is my jewelry and photography area (yes, there is a potters wheel there now!) and the third is my shelving with all my molds neatly stacked and waiting to be used for a project.

At our last gallery meeting we discussed the upcoming years' events. It's started out slow this year, but the calendar is filling up fast. The most exciting event is our gallery show at the Green Door in Liberty, NY in July. I have many ideas stored up in my mind, in drawings and on scraps of paper and post-its.
So, back to work! Well, between construction (sigh)…...

NATURE'S BOUNTY

by Robert

Artists work with many elements that are derived from nature.  Minerals, wood, earths, oils, water, metals, and natural fibers are some of the sources for our creations.

Paintings and ceramics utilize oils, pigments from earths and minerals. Chemicals are used in ceramics, watercolors, and oil and acrylic paintings.  Wood, stone, metals, plastic mixtures, and pigments are the basis for a wide spectrum of traditional and modern sculptures.

Sand, natural materials, clays, and pigments are used in firing glass objects.  Fibers are used with papers, textiles, threads to create fiber art pieces.  Glass, chemicals, and sunlight were the ingredients of photography from its beginnings.  A wide range of woods have been made into aesthetic as well as functional works.

We members of Catskill Artists Gallery each use specific favorite elements in our works, many of which derive from natural sources.

I use a wide variety of materials in my own mixed-media sculptures and collages: metals, pigments, plastics derived from natural ingredients, wood, photographs, and fibers.