Art and Photography
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Art Contest Win at Fine Art America
So excited to win First Prize in the Office Art Decor Sepia Art Content at Fine Art America Sunday evening! The Office Art Decor group puts together galleries of the best artwork available on Fine Art America for professional spaces. This particular contest was focused on sepia tones only. There were 277 images in…
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“Element” opens at Brick Row Gallery
I have a piece tonight at “Element,” Brick Row Gallery’s latest show. It should be a fantastic mix of local artists and their works. I’d taken a bit of a sabbatical from showing, and I’m happy to be back! There’s also an article in The Herald Weekly, where I was given a chance to talk…
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Nighttime Playground
I’ve been a little behind in posting the images from the iPhone Eternal Childhood series to the blog. Here’s one I did a couple months ago: “Nighttime Playground.” Each night, the Moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars. ~~Rumi
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Caught
This piece originally began with what I thought would be a series (and it may still be). I was working on two different pieces dealing with our relationship as humans with the “natural world.” I was unhappy with where I had gotten with both of them and on a whim I decided to try them…
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Light Present and Past
Last week my uncle was baling hay and I couldn’t resist taking my phone and getting a few shots of the farm and bales one evening. I grew up going to his and my grandparents’ farm, staying weekends and weeks at a time over the years. Those were hot halcyon days filled with hazy, diffused…
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At a Rest Stop on Mother’s Day
I don’t know why I’d never stopped at this rest area before. It’s the first one, right inside the South Carolina line coming from Georgia. It’s not like I haven’t driven that stretch of road dozens of times over the years. But today, I stopped. I’m glad I did. The rest stop sits on Lake…
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Yesterday’s Unplanned Trip to the Cemetery
What made me stop the car was seeing this juxtaposition: A fire hydrant. And just behind–flowers to honor and remember the dead. Are they not both there to “save” something? I’ve loved cemeteries for the last several years, finding them not spooky and macabre but peaceful and full of gentle but hopeful reminders of our…
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Eternal Childhood: The things we carry
“The things we carry” is another piece in the Eternal Childhood series, which explores the magic not just of childhood, but of being human itself. A magic we could experience if we could but glimpse ourselves and the world differently for even one moment.
Melissa D. Johnston Art 