Making murals

It's been a few years since I last was in Vienna. But lately I keep remembering a brief visit to Schoenbrunn, the summer palace of the Habsburgs in Vienna. 

Specifically a walk through a few small rooms whose walls were decorated in the most wondrous way.

They were painted in the 18th century by J W Bergl, an artist from Bohemia. 

Here are a few pictures -  but words nor pictures can describe the full impact of being in a room which has lush images from floor to ceiling, not one inch left without an image. What opulence and luxury, and yet one could imagine the royal children playing in those rooms.

I can't find a picture of my favorite room which had a jungle theme and was densely painted.

Most of these images are from The Muralist, a beautiful and informative website created by San Francisco muralist Lynne Rutter.

I've never made a real mural but how great it would be to have an entire room as a canvas!!!!

My War

I've created a video from some paintings and drawings  about my experience as a child in Austria during the Second World War; also available as a hard cover book and a DVD:

Society of Three

The show in February, scheduled to open at The Canessa Gallery in San Francisco, is coming ever nearer. Most of the art has been created by the artists and curated by our coach, Tesia Blackburn. We, the 3 participants in the show, are known as  'Society of Three'.

All of us are abstract or semi-abstract painters. The title of the show is 'Line/Color/Shape. We have a logo, email and print announcements, news releases and flyers, a website, small posters, booklets of our work (for sale) and a street sign. We have done all we could think of to generate interest in the media. Now we will be concentrating on hanging the show. And of course the Vernissage/Opening on February 5, 2009.

Here is a picture of 'Society of Three': Gayle Muehring, Diane Goldstein and me.