Wonderful opening -- The Encounter Exhibition

Me and my work with Carolyn Grand's work

(We took this shot after the show).

My paintings are the ones featuring

clouds (a constant obsession).

What a great time I had at the Encounter exhibition opening

today.  Thank you to everyone who came out, and thank
you too for all the compliments on my art.  It is a wonderful
show.  I just joined the Heliconian Club this year -- and it is
a super group.  Everyone there is so helpful and cooperative.

We were a group show of five new members today, Faye Goldman,
Sara Craig, Patrician Bello, Carolyn Grand and me (Barbara Muir).
The people who hung the show did a marvellous job, and I was
very happy when I arrived and saw how my work was displayed
on a wall intermingled with Carolyn Grand's lovely work.

Me with Cloud Magic

Acrylic on canvas

4 x 6 ft.,

Barbara Muir © 2018

I may do more blogs about the show this week.  It's up until
October 2, and if you want to see it, let me know, and I'll
contact the club and take you in.

Have an enjoying art shows day.

Come to the show -- Saturday 1 - 4 p.m.

In the studio working on 

In The Right Place At The Right Time

Acrylic on canvas

36 x 48 inches

Barbara Muir © 2016

Today I'm just going to write about the magic of the
art world.  It is absolutely magic.  I was looking for
photos of my studio.  I love it when artists post
pictures of their studio, but mine is never in that
ideal, photographable state.  I have what used to be
the living room and dining room of my tiny house.

Anyway I found a picture of a painting on the easel
which I'm showing you.  It is in the more orderly
part of the studio, so I can let you see it.  And
looking at that photo brought back so many memories.

In The Right Place At The Right Time

Acrylic on canvas

36 x 48 inches

Barbara Muir © 2016

My wonderful friend in The Netherlands, Miranda
Brouwers, who I met at the Florence Biennale,
sent me photos of a nature reserve near her home,
called the Worp, and helped me be in an exhibition
to raise awareness of the Worp.  This painting was
put together from the photo reference, and my knowledge
of similar spaces near me in Toronto.

Then the work flew in a tube, off its stretcher, to
Miranda, and she and her husband stretched it,
and transported it to the exhibition.  When it
came back to Toronto, my friends at DeSerres
restretched it, and I sold it in a show with my
friend Gill Cameron.

If I hadn't met Miranda in Florence, Italy, when we
both showed at the Florence Biennale, it would
never have happened.  The painting wouldn't have
happened, it wouldn't have travelled across the
ocean, and back, and it wouldn't have sold to
a wonderful collector in Toronto.

Have an enjoying the magic of the art world day,
and come to the show -- September 7, 1 - 4 p.m.,
at the Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Ave.,
Toronto.

Let it go -- artists and their creations

Across the highway

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 inches

Barbara Muir © 2016

Last night Steven and I packed up two big pieces and two
smaller ones to go to the Encounter show in the Heliconian
Club this weekend. Please come out from 1 - 4 p.m.
on Saturday afternoon to 35 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto.
I will be there, we'll have goodies to offer in the beautiful space.
This morning a wonderful taxi driver from Beck Taxis
with a van showed up and we whisked that work down to the club.

Everything looked so bright and happy in that gorgeous space.
Our job as artists is to make the art we want to make, to
follow our heart's desire, and to hope someone else will
want it, and take it home.  The pieces I'm showing seem
like the essence of my landscape paintings and are all
about the Maritimes.  This is the new members show
for the Heliconian Club, and I just joined the club this
year, so I get to be in it.

(If you do end up buying a big piece I recommend the
lovely and reasonable taxi people to help you transport it home.)

Our house of course looks strangely empty, with bare spots
where the art has been, but there is more, more, more
art coming.  Promise.

Have a going to the art show day.

Revised for the new show

View from the Highway

Acrylic on canvas

18 x 24 inches

Barbara Muir ©  revised 2019

This painting has been in a couple of shows, and I wanted to change

it before it went out again. Here's a better photo, though it could still
be better.

Please come out to the show (see yesterday's post) if you're in
Toronto.  It's going to be great.

Have an enjoying your work day.

Please come to the art show! This Saturday

Here is the invitation to the Encounter group art exhibition at the
Heliconian Club in Toronto, Canada.  I would love to see you there. I have
four pieces in the show.

So please make our art part of your Saturday afternoon.  Thank you
in advance for coming out.

Have a making plans to go to an art show day.

On the road again -- literally

No Contest -- Nature Wins!

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Barbara Muir © 2016

SOLD ♥ 

(This piece seems perfect

for my joyous and relieved

mood today.  When we were

in Nova Scotia a week

ago I was looking at this scene

in the flesh and marvelling that it

sold in New York City!  A 

happy art story for a happy day.)

Today was a happy day.  I am better. We went to our favourite
park on the west side of the city and saw the swans.
A little boy was dancing as he and his family fed the ducks and
swans, and one swan wiggled his tail, in what looked like a
joyous response.  When we got home a neighbour up the street
asked us in for a glass of wine.  What a treat.

I have been thinking about art all day -- I will have four
pieces going into the Encounter show at the Heliconian
Club on Hazelton Avenue in Toronto this Saturday. The
opening is from 1 - 4 p.m.  I will be there all afternoon
and would love to see you.

Have a planning to go to an art show day.

Make this cold go away!

Napping with the cat

Watercolour and marker 

on watercolour paper

9 x 12 inches

Barbara Muir © 2013

I love this painting of Steven trying to recover from a cold with 

a cup of hot lemon, and the cat.  That has been my story today.

Still a deep frightening cough when it comes, and pain.  I want to

wave my wand, and be done with it.  

Have a staying healthy day.