New projects, musings, imagery....

Stag Goddess
Collage, nail enamel 14" x 9"

I am playing with some imagery, illustrations of current thoughts and places in my mind, writing a lot too...it all feels funny to put it mildly, but this is where I am right now...


Lame Deer

Is the deer my spirit guide now?
Staring at me with his bloody mouth,
tongue lagging out, terrorized,
as everyone watches him smash
his face into the chain link fence
over and over and over again.

Can he not see the fence, or feel the pain?
Does he think it will give if he smashes harder?

Bleeding his eyes graze my soul,
and I feel his.

He didn't know where to go.

I saw him again yesterday,
leaping across my path in the meadow.

Daughter in the deep water
Collage, twine, magic marker 8" x 10"

Audacity of Hope

These are two small mixed medium paintings on paper. I actually made these last year, 2009. I have been thinking about working daily on paper, thinking how it was a beginning for me and is always a touch stone.

Spring Is Here!!!!

Yellow Spring
5' x 4'
Mixed Medium on Canvas

Untitled Drawing
12" x 16"
Mixed Medium on paper

Untitled Drawing/Painting 2
12" x 16"

Untitled Drawing/Painting 3
12" x 16"

Spring Green Triptec
3pcs 11 x 14 each
Mixed Medium on Canvas Board


The drawings were done in transition between winter and spring, the large yellow canvas I have been working on, ( Its done now!) for the last month or so..and the last piece was a "daily" painting completed today......I am still working and working on how to work more!!!

Hudson River View 5/30/08

Hudson River View

26" x 32"
Mixed Medium on Paper

Hi Everyone,
I want to thank all who came to the Artscape Studio Tour! It was a wonderfully successful event. I loved meeting so many art lovers and sharing discussion about my artwork. The event has prompted me to keep my painting studio open to the public for the Summer, every Saturday from 12-5pm. Starting this weekend, anyone can come by to see the studio,(new works, works in progress as well as older pieces). And as always, I am open by appointment.
Dawn Breeze Painting Studio
722 Warren st.
Hudson NY 12534
#917-622-5141
www.dawnbreezestudio.com

Next couple things happening (click on blue for links)

1. Hudson Art Affair
An in depth personal interview of me, by Melissa Stafford, Curator and Editor of Hudson Art Affair.
www.hudsonartaffair.com

1. Exit Art, June 7th, 6:00pm
Please come to this free public event, where I will be presenting myself and work before a live audience, along with 11 other Hudson Valley Artists. This event is the culmination of a 6 month NYFA( New York Foundation For The Arts) MARK Artist Workshop. We will be speaking about our work, what influences us, how and why we create artwork. I think artist talks are fascinating, I highly recommend this event if your in NYC this weekend!
Exit Art
475 10th Ave # 1
New York, NY 10018
(212) 925-2928

2. Juried Landscape Show, June 7th, CCCA Hudson NY
Please come to the opening, (if your not at Exit Art, NYC) this Saturday, to see a wonderful variety of landscapes in different mediums, created by many local talented artists, including myself:)
CCCA GALLERY 209 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 Tel 518.671.6213 Fax 518.671.6857

CCCA Gallery Landscape Opening Sat June 7 5-7 PM

Painting by: Nick Nickerson Opening: Saturday, June 7th, 5-7 pm The Landscape Show opens on Saturday, June 7th, with a reception from 5-7 PM and runs through Sunday, July 6th, 2008. The show includes paintings, oils, acrylics, watercolors, and photography and features 29 CCCA member artists: Karen Arp Sandel, William Bond Walker, Dawn Breeze, Mike Bufi, Marie Cole,David Dew Bruner, Peter Donahoe, Tomm Eaton, Susan Elias, Jim Flosdorf, Jerry Freedner, Pat Goldstein, Patrick Harbron, Fran Heaney, Philip Heilman, Valerie Hoffmann, Karen Hummel, Robert Laurie, Sylvie Kantorovitz, Gretchen Kelly, Tim McFadden, Taylor Mickle, Victor Milin, Nick Nickerson, Holly Northrop, Molly Pomerance, Bill Sullivan, Robert Trachtman, Ella Yang

4. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Summer 08', Hudson NY
I am excited to announce a new gallery relationship with Carrie Haddad, Hudson NY. Carrie Haddad Gallery is one of the finest art galleries in Hudson, NY as well as the most established. She has been showing contemporary local and international artists for many years, and I am proud to be joining her roster of artists. New works will be hanging and available this summer, with a show scheduled for later this fall.
Carrie Haddad Gallery
622 Warren Street
Hudson, NY. 12534

5. The upcoming birth of my first child! Due June 24th!!!!

So, lots going on-all very exciting!!!

Joy and happiness,
xxDawn Breeze


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" Let the beauty you love, be what you do"-Rumi

Trees

These are a group of small paintings, 8" x 12" each on sandpaper. I was experimenting with mediums. Something I've noticed lately in my recent paintings is an interest in forms. Usually my landscapes are horizon to land-linear. Recently, I've been much more attentive to the "round" nature forms, trees, flowers....

Spring III 4/28/08

Spring III
16" x 20"
Mixed Medium on Paper

Spring II 4/28/08

Spring II
16" x 20"
Mixed Medium on Paper


Another sketch from the drive...there's one more, posting it tomorrow:) I feel these drawings are lyrical, they are visual poems.

Pink, Purples and Green

Flowers, Pinks-Purples and Green
12" x 16"
Mixed Medium On Paper

Spring Mountain

Spring Mountain
33" x 48"
Mixed Medium On Paper


Spring is slowly arriving upstate, and with it a new color palette. I am so happy and eager for green and the feeling of sunshine against the cobalt sky.

Flowers Just Beyond

Flowers Just Beyond
12" x 16"
Mixed Medium On Paper

Thinking of flowers to come...

RoseBush
12" x 16"
Mixed Medium On Paper

Male Figure

Figure 3/11
32" x 40"
Crayon, Tempura on Paper

This is a quick drawing/painting from a life drawing class a cpl wks ago. I would really like to be going to more life drawing sessions( unfortunetly no room in my current schedule)...the figure drawing from real life is so liberating, theres no "thought" or "pre-meditation", so I am just a creative vessel in a very present state, which allows for an easy looseness in my work. This feeling and way of working/being I then take back to the studio....ahhhhh, I want more of that!

Airplane Windows

Airplane Window 6:11am
24" x 30"
Mixed Medium On Paper

Airplane Window 6:09am
24" x 30"
Mixed Medium On Paper

Some warmth please!

Ocean Wave With Red
14" x 17"
Mixed Medium On Paper

Ocean Wave With White
14" x 17"
Mixed Medium On Paper

Honey Bear

Honey Bear
3' x 2.5'
Mixed Medium on Paper



I had an overwhelming desire to sketch an imaginative Honey Bear today?

White Mountains

White Mountains
22" x 28"
Mixed Medium on Paper


Something fun to note about this painting is that the yellow halo around the Mountains, is actually metallic gold..so in real life it glows, I love those metallics, yummy:)

Winter Works on Paper

Images are 19" x 13" on 24" x 28" Paper

These are recent winter inspired works on paper. Its funny to observe this evolution of work...its all on paper, I wonder when I'll move to canvas again. I feel like all these are the warm up jumps for the leap I want to take to a larger-large scale. I want to move physically into these paintings with my entire body, not just my right arm....I feel the momentum building for that leap, but I also am greatly enjoying their place now.

Winter Suki

Winter Suki
17" x 22"
Mixed Medium On Paper

This painting captures this wonderful feeling and idea that I've been practicing in Yoga recently. Its about the honey spot in a difficult place, a sweetness you feel when relaxed in a tight position. I love feeling that physically in Yoga, and I love using that concept with current life challenges....Today I felt the bitter winter cold but there was a soft sky, causing tension and peace all at once.

Winter Storm With Red

Winter Storm With Red
13" x 22"
Mixed Medium on Paper

A painting completed earlier this week...the snow is inspiring me.

Available For Purchase: Please email me for details

Above The Hudson River

"Above the Hudson River"
8.5' x 10.5"
Mixed Medium on Paper

A little sketch/painting, inspired by yesterdays view.

Available for purchase: $300
(The colors are more saturated and deeper, perhaps a little less yellow, yet a brighter yellow. The brown is a rich Burnt Sienna...its very hard to get an accurate color representation on the computer. Every time you tilt the screen it completely changes the contrast/and colors....grrrrr)