Thursday, May 12, 2016

WalkingWool partners with Primo Restaurant Rockland

Thank you thank you thank you Primo Restaurant in Rockland ME for inviting WalkingWoolStudio+Gallery to install works from our collection. We are THRILLED to hang a variety of Gallery artists in the first floor dining rooms of the James Beard Foundation award-winning restaurant (celebrating it's 17th season, by the way, no small feat in the restaurant biz). We LOVE how the paintings, photograph, and works on paper compliment each other and the spaces of the historic building at 2 Main Street. We just can't gush enough, apparently!
Blas Castagna and Esquivel, small and large, respectively, in The Fireplace Room.

Esquivel over Table 21 in The Fireplace Room.

Carol Struve abstract in The Front Room.

Nikki Galapon in The Front Room.

F.J. Domingo in The Primo Room.

Jack Delaney in The Primo Room.

Jack again in The Primo Room.

Large charcoal drawing and small b/w photograph in The Front Room.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Happy Mother's Day to my sweet friends . . . something for you from one of Rockland's finest minds.

The courage that my mother had

The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.


The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have no thing I treasure more:
Yet, it is something I could spare.


Oh, if instead she'd left to me
The thing she took into the grave!-
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.
"The courage that my mother had" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems. © Harper Collins, 1981. (Thank you Garrison Keillor -- Reprinted with permission by The Writer's Almanac.)
Baby Edna
(with dog of course . . . you know me!)