Unexpected Happenings
As the saying goes, “It’s been a minute” since I have shared news from my studio.
2022 started full of hope for an active year of art making and shows. All of this changed in early March with the unexpected death of my sister, Anne, followed one week later by the passing of my 91-year-old Mother, Pat. For the past six months, I have been dealing with the emotional, spiritual and practical repercussions of their deaths.
Anne was a remarkable person, an educator, biologist, and plant ecologist, who was on the verge of retiring from her teaching position at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She was my childhood companion, my older sister, and we shared a love for the natural world nurtured by my family that expressed itself differently. She became a scientist, and I became an artist. Botany and especially native plants became her passion, while my abstract work has been earth- based for many years.
Their loss is deeply felt by my family, but I am inspired to express my love of the earth and concern for its future through my work.
Prayer For the Woods Encaustic, ink jet print, silk screen 20" x 48" , diptych
Exhibition News
I am proud to announce my solo show at the
Pump House Regional Arts Center in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Revisiting the theme “Enduring Earth”, This is a comprehensive show of my work from the past number of years. The work will be hung in the Front Gallery of the Arts Center.
https://www.thepumphouse.org/visual-arts/exhibitions-2022-2023/
Forest Abstraction II encaustic on panel,inkjet print, silkscreen 24” x36”
Currently on Artsy
Produced by James May Gallery
Elemental Hot & Cold,
a group show featuring artists that use cold wax or encaustic medium.
August 16th to November 30th
Jane Michalski, Joan Moriarity and Denise Presnell
Curated by James May Gallery
Several smaller works are available from last winter’s small works sale, “Memento”
https://www.artsy.net/show/james-may-gallery-elemental-hot-and-cold?sort=partner_show_position
Dr. Anne Lubbers
