See my work at The Gallery at the Porch Door just north of Kingston

 

 My paintings (see the paintings with the blue on the labels)

in the exhibition at The Gallery at the Porch Door.

Sally Chupick, owner/curator at The Gallery at the Porch
Door sent me this photo of my work on display there.
Sally has a great eye for design, and I was so thrilled to
see how the work looks in her gorgeous gallery.

If you're in the Kingston Area visiting the market, or
any of the historical buildings, the university, or
the waterfront, or Fort Henry, make sure to take
a 15 minute detour up Sydenham Road to
Elginburg, turn left at the light and stop when you
reach the gorgeous limestone farmhouse where Sally's
gallery is a complete treat.  Sally is a truly generous
and warm host and you will be so glad you decided
to drop by.

Check it out, and please tell her I sent you!

Have a visiting new, fun places day.

Super Sally and The Gallery at the Porch Door

Some of my paintings displayed

 at Gallery at the Porch Door

In the white frames from top to

bottom: Full Tank,

Full Serve and Self Serve

--all are watercolour on watercolour

paper -- Barbara Muir © 2011

Photo by: Sally Chupick

If you're ever driving through Kingston, Ontario
Canada on the 401 you're going to want to make a tiny
detour and give yourself a treat.  Head for The Gallery
at the Porch Door, and meet the owner/curator Sally Chupick.
She is without a doubt one of the sunniest people
I've ever met, and the gallery, in the lovely porch of
her century old stone farmhouse is an absolute
delight.  Sally has wonderful taste and displays the
art and many smaller and perfect gift items with a
designer's eye.

Sally Chupick and me in my kitchen last November.

Have lunch in one of the super restaurants in Kingston,
then head west again, and turn up exit 613 to
Elginburg. At the light in Elginburg turn left
and a short ways down the highway you'll see Sally's
beautiful home on your left.  A warmer reception
would be hard to imagine, and you will quickly
realize that you've come upon a find that you'll
want to revisit again and again.

The Gallery at the Porch Door is the star on the Map

Map courtesy the Gallery.

Oh and incidentally as you can see above I have
several paintings in that gallery expertly displayed
by my good friend,  a superb artist herself, Sally Chupick.

Gallery at the Porch Door -- so much fun

 Home grown beauty (work in progress)

Acrylic on wood panel

5 x 5 inches

Barbara Muir © 2011
(This year my husband Steven planted
tulips and daffodils in abundance in
our small front porch garden.  The
other day I cut a few to paint -- but the
difference between tulips from the
garden and the ones grown in greenhouses,
is that one bloom could fill my entire painting.  So
gorgeous!)

Here's a little painting I started working on a couple
of days ago.  It's not quite finished because there
are one or two other things going on.  Isn't that
the way it should be?  Today I went on a day
trip with my friend Josephine to visit Sally Chupick
at her new gallery -- the Gallery at the Porch Door.
Check it out on her blog. (By the way while
I was writing here, Sally had already installed my work!)

The Gallery at the Porch Door

Watching Sally choose my work was fun.

She laid it all out on the floor, and kept adding

pieces as the arrangement formed in her

mind. 

It's quite exciting when blog friends meet.  I
think we're especially lucky because we get to
know one another in the first place because we
like each other's work.  But then we talk to one
another through our comments, sometimes for
years at a time before we meet, and we are
purely positive.  So before we ever see one another
we have a unique, and quite wonderful relationship.
At the International Women Celebrate show I met
three blog friends I'd never seen in person, and we had a
great connection.  Then today I got to meet Sally,
and it was just so over the top delightful.
She is every bit as fantastic as she seems on her blog.
Her gallery is charming and elegant, her house
beautiful, and her work is so magnificent -- photos
do not do it justice.  Still I'll try.

Painting by Sally Chupick on the gallery wall.

A quick snap at an example of one of 

Sally's lush seaside townscapes.

It was quite a long journey, and we even managed
to get lost, so Josephine and I were tired when
we arrived. I was so in the moment that I forgot
to get a photo of me with Josephine and Sally,
or of Sally and me, or of Sally with her husband
Dave, who did all the fabulous construction and
design work to make her gallery happen. Still I will
get more photos of all of us the next time. 

Sally really liked my work, and will showcase quite
a bit of it in her gallery.  Hurray!  Three cheers
for Sally.  Three cheers for Josephine.  (Thank
you Josephine for getting us home safely through
that unrelenting rain).

Have a-showing-in-a-new-venue day.