Another exhibition done /  by Jim Hathaway

Another exhibition in the can. This was my first in the pandemic and had a different feel. Less visitors, but the ones that came felt special. 

Sitting the exhibition this year gave me a chance to reflect. The paintings turn out to be more about the pandemic than I had recognized or intended. The oils are about places that stood against the pandemic, shops and nature. The ink paintings are about escaping the room that held me zoomed and imprisoned.

           This is one reason I don't like to talk about my paintings. I make them but don't make them consciously. I'm not a rational painter. Reasons, intentions are more complicated than I recognize. People see different things in the paintings. Oftentimes they see and know more than I.


The Exhibition Continues /  by Jim Hathaway

The final weekend of the exhibition will begin today!

Last weekend was slow but nice. Some old friends as well as some new faces dropped by. I’m hoping this weekend will be the same.

The exhibition is mostly ink paintings, but the oils seem to be getting more attention, perhaps because I haven’t done much oil painting in the past 30 years in Japan..

Exhibition opens Friday /  by Jim Hathaway

I do this ,,, every year. It is a measure. I put things on the walls to see what I have done. It gives me a chance to clean year old dust, and to live in empty rooms.

Magic happens. Magic on the wall, magic in the door. New people, people I haven't seen in a long time.

An early surprise this year is this painting. I had painted it at the beginning of summer, but it slipped off the wall. It was hidden behind a heap of papers. I had forgotten I had made it until last week when it reappeared.

This year's exhibition opens Friday. Please stop by.

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