4th Go-Card is out!

The Danish postcard company Go-Card is currently publishing a new series of my images. The third postcard is now out: Yasuko, pictured above.

The postcard can be picked up for free (between Jan 25 - 31st) in 400 cafes around Denmark, as well as in all McDonald’s fast food restaurants throughout the country (except for Herning).

This is the last card in the forth series of my work printed by “Go-Card”. The first one was titled Life of Young Ursula Winter, and the two other ones depicted my Boston Terrier Playdoh: Playdoh the Muse and Playdoh Greetings.

For more information, or to send an e-card, please visit there their website www.Go-Card.dk

Sugar and Spice

A couple of weeks ago Kevin and I went to a little restaurant on a Saturday afternoon. I had heard of the place, but never visited. It was small and very cosy. The food was

really good, and the staff great.

The restaurant had an large empty wall, and I asked the manager if they ever showed art - he said he was very interested in seeing my work. So the next day we stopped by with a few originals. I was given total freedom to hang my work on the entire wall, so I went home, looking through my work - and found six available pieces, and also managed to finish a seventh painting, before hanging the show yesterday. A great start on the new year - and a great reason for getting back in the studio.

The restaurant’s name is

SUGAR & SPICE

and is located in the Star Building on Marine Drive (across from St. John's School)

in Upper Tumon, Guam.

Please call 671-647-7423 for more info on opening times etc.

New Year On Guam

“I’d rather be in the Studio” excellent book by Alyson B. Standfield on art marketing

Happy New Year! I simply can’t believe it’s been a year since I sat in “Brewed Awakening” cafe in Metuchen, writing my new year blog entry from last year. I remember it very clearly for some reason, and it doesn’t seem long ago at all. Just about everything in my surroundings has changed since that cold winter day in the cafe, when a thin layer of snow covered the ground. Jersey was busy, crowded, multicultural and close to New York City... Guam is laid-back, with stunning Nature, H O T, with extremely high humidity, and is pretty much as removed from anything or anywhere else as can be. I am not going to lie: It does feel very remote out here at times!

Since moving here, I haven’t been as inspired to work as much as I probably expected. I have the most fantastic studio, but just haven’t quite felt it yet. Adjusting to these new surroundings has been a work in process. Not because it has been bad - just because Guam is so absolutely different from anywhere I’ve ever been. Not having Art Museums and galleries fairly close by is a new thing for me, and one of the things I miss the most from NJ. At some point I wrote a blog about the work going into searching the island for the right art materials. That was a new and unexpected obstacle right there in front of me.

Instead of painting, I have in fact spend a lot of time reading art books, magazines, and books on art marketing. I have used the Internet a lot for the ideas, inspiration and fresh air in art and culture that I used to get from a day in the city, going to MoMA, or dinner with friends.

But I am excited about 2010. I am excited about getting back into painting, I truly miss it. I think it is time, I miss having paint on my hands, and unfinished pieces hanging around the house...