My work is just to the right of the hutch, and the black background pink flower just above it. In the photograph on top, the pink magnolia center on the top left is my photograph, also. I've been a member since just before the gallery opened in April of 2008.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
This is one of my most favorite things...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
"These Are a Few of My Favorite Things"
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Portfolio Photography Project
I just returned from Denver where I was hired to photograph my daughter's corporate art for a big magazine ad. I photographed her work in a number of places around Denver. In the future, I plan to place a link from this blog to my Portfolio Photography web page when I have added the images that I photographed; however, I have not yet finalized the images. This piece is in a niche in a bank in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Below is a wall mural called "Aqua Rhythms". It was commissioned for the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Cherry Creek in Denver. It covers an entire wall and contains hundreds of stainless steel squares that move with the breeze. Enhancing the wall are sections of exquisitely glass designed in clusters that shimmer in the sun.
So, why am I showing my daughter's work on my blog? Because this is one of the forms of photography that I do. And, because I'm extremely proud of my daugher's work.
Photography at Gina's
(Award winning photograph at two art exhibits.)
My photography can be seen at Gina's in downtown Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Gina is a genius at displaying the art, crafts, jewelry and antique furniture that she has available in her store. Going into her place is such a pleasant and enjoyable experience. I love the way she displays "Gitchee Gumee Boathouse" on top of an antique mantle, and the wooden shore birds and bird nest make a perfect setting for the subject of the photography. By the way, the photograph I took of the display is also a landscape photograph that is for sale. Wouldn't it look nice in a wall grouping?
At present, Gina is showcasing eighteen framed works of my photography as well as a few selected matted pieces and note cards in two different sizes. Next time you are in Ocean Springs, be sure to drop by Gina's and browse around at all of her delightful "finds", and check out my photography while you are there. Here are four of my photographs at Gina's behind a setup of jewelry and pottery that I photographed for a an advertisement for her store.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Mysterious Flower in Ireland
This photograph was taken on a cloudy day (as most of our days in Ireland were), so the photograph is mostly in cool colors except for the purple flowers in the background. Some of the buds seemed to glow with a blue iridescence. Not knowing the name of the flower, I couldn't easily search for it, so I joined an online botanical group, posted the photo and asked for help. Within one day someone had identified it as Globe Thistle. They don't grow in the Gulf Coast region, but so remember seeing one in Michigan a few years ago, although it was much larger. I wish I could grow them here.
Because I like the flower, I have designed a note card using this image and will place it in the shops where my art work is sold.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Caboose
608 West Railroad Street
Long Beach, MS 39560
228-865-1056
I plan to post photos of the gallery here soon. My work is being hung later this week.
A ribbon cutting will be held on June 19, 2008 for the Mall and its three shops: The Antique Junction, the Caboose Art Gallery and the monogram shop, all under the same roof. It will be at 4:00 P.M. and refreshments will be served.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Award at Singing River Art Association Annual Art Exhibit
I am pleased to announce that my "Angel of Sorrow" photograph, which was a 20" X 30" canvas gallery wrap format, won the award for Best Photography at the Singing River Art Association's 2008 art exhibit that runs through May at the Jolly McCarthy Depot in Pascagoula, MS. The honor was a great thrill for me. The juror was Victoria Lenne, noted Tennessee watercolorist.
This photograph seems to touch the souls of viewers, especially those who went through Katrina. One of the main goal for my photography is that it touch the soul and has meaning for those who view it. I like to think that she my Angel of Sorrow the angel who lifts our burdens by carrying our sorrows for us.
This photograph may be ordered using my photography purchase page.
"Misty Magnolia"
This is my other entry in the SRAA Art Exhibit. It is a Magnolia soulangeana from the magnolia bush in my front yard. It is my newest image. The judge always leaves comments for award winners, but didn't leave many comments for other entrys that didn't win an award. She left this comment by Misty Magnolia:
"Simply elegant."
This was also done on a canvas gallery wrap.
Monday, April 21, 2008
How did the photographer get that shot?
A few, however, require stunts or extraordinary maneuvers.
On our trip to Ireland last year, we were driving along the eastern shore of the country from Dublin to Northern Ireland. It was a cold and rainy day (as were many of our days in Ireland, even in August), and we were enjoying the scenery. We saw a beautiful overlook with outpotties, so we thought it would be a nice time to stop, albeit the drizzling rain. It turned out to be more than just a pit stop.
Our plan for renting a car instead of going on a tour bus was that we would be able to stop anywhere and stay as long as we wanted to, so that is what we did. Once stopped, we noticed busloads of youngsters wearing red safety helmets going down a steep trail. Always curious, wanting to see what they were doing, and wanting to see what I might find to photograph, I followed them and went down a fairly steep trail.
One such flower was a Fireweed growing out of the cracks in the rock.
Sometimes, to get the shot you want, you have to do some weird things, like lie on rocks while shooting. I knew I wanted a photograph of these gorgeous flowers, but didn't want to shoot them from above. Notice how the stems are deep magenta? They were also dripping with raindrops - hard to see in this small shot.
Yes, that is me - my husband took a photo of me while I was shooting the flowers. You have get down low, on the level of the flower.
There I was, laying on a rock with my feet propped up on another rock for balance. It was a bad hair day, what with the rain and the breeze from the water, but we had a marvelous experience, and I loved the challenge.
Fireweeds are beautiful flowers because the stems nearly the color of the flower petals.
Fireweed is a perennial with pinky purple flowers that grows from 0.5 to 3 metres in height. The flowers can range from rose, purple or mauveand are clustered along the top part of the reddish stems. They have yellow stamens. These flowers also grow in the United States, but none quite so pretty as these with raindrops on their heads.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Featured Artist at Foley Performing Arts Gallery
This Press Release says it all:
Local Photographer Exhibits in Foley Arts Center
Biloxi – Biloxi photographer Linda Saxon Nix is the featured artist in the Middle Gallery at the Foley Performing Arts Center in Foley, AL. Nix, a member of the Art center since 2006, is showing nine of her favorite images and a number of matted pieces. All of the works may be purchased. The exhibit will hang through April, at which time selected pieces will be moved across the street to be displayed in the Colonial Bank. Foley Art Center is located at 119 West Lauren Avenue (Highway 98), with viewing hours from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Monday – Friday and 10:00 AM 2:00 PM on Saturdays.
Fats Domino's Cadillac Tale
It was was also chosen by the National Endowment of the Arts to illustrate a story in their NEArts Magazine (Vol. 5 2006). The article, "Restoring the Quality of Life: NEA Assists Hurricane Ravaged Arts Organizations", focused on how the NEA assisted art organizations and artists with the aftermath of Katrina, and featured two other of my Katrina photographs.
I was asked to contribute to the article because I was the recipient of a $1,000.00 grant from the Hattiesburg Arts Council to attend the Bruce Barnbaum Photographic Workshop. The workshop grant was funded by a parent grant from the NEA to assist artists in the area affected by Katrina. This workshop gave me the opportunity to take my art to a new level and am grateful that I had the opportunity to have attended.
While photographing homes that were filled with inches of mold, cars that had been deposited on top of other cars by the water, and broken dreams (actually a heartbreaking task), we heard that Fats Domino's famous pink Cadillac was in the area. A few of us hopped into my car and went to look for his recording studio where it was supposed to be.
We found the studio, but saw no Cadillac. Disappointed, we were about ready to leave
when we saw a man coming out of the studio, locking the door behind him.
The man was quite a character. He wore overalls and a T-shirt and had a very long, bushy beard and, of course, a baseball type cap. It turned out that the man was a musician and a childhood friend who went to school with Fats. Presently he was managing the studio, or what was left of it. He plays in a Cajun band in New Orleans. He let us photograph him, but said we could not publish the photo. That photograph would have been a winner, too!
We struck up a conversation, and when he found out that we were a group of photographers who were documenting the storm damage (many of our group were from out of state), he invited us in to have a look.
The entire house had been flooded, so everything had been stripped out leaving only the wall studs, and this pink Cadillac sitting in an empty room. The only other things in the entire old house were a pink toilet and lavatory in an adjoining room. That, and two crystal chandeliers that they salvaged from the ceilings that they would again use that were sitting in the back of the couch. They are being saved to hang when the studio is rebuilt.
The old Pink Cadillac had been sawed off and cusomt-made into a couch years ago. Before the flood, when you sat on it, the rear lights lit up. Fats' friend told us that Fats planned to rebuild the studio and have the Cadillac couch refurbished and make the lights work once again. He told us that the real Cadillac was with Fats in an area of New Orleans that did not flood.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Tivoli Series
I have shown and sold only a few of these photos, as they are not reminders that people around here want to see on a daily basis.
It had been closed for a number of years, and rumor had it that the homeless lived inside. But, oh, the stories she could tell of the roaring twenties and thirties when she was considered the Grande Dame of hotels on the Riviera of the South.
I first went inside the hotel with a group of people taking a photography workshop from Bruce Barnbaum. A few months later I sent inside for the last time with my son, who is a photographer (a fantastic one, too) and who was visiting from Colorado. We shot photographs on all five floors in the light of the late afternoon sun. It was an awesome experience. A week later,the wrecking ball demolished it because developers wanted to build a casino on the property. The front corner had been struck by a huge casino barge and torn off, leaving the building damaged. In my opinion, it could have been saved and turned in to a hotel once again. The good citizens of Biloxi fought to keep a casino from going on the property, and we won. It is sad that they didn't wait before tearing down one of our memorable landmarks, of which there are too few left.
of all of my photographs. They stand for a by-gone time long gone, the romantic past, out lost landmarks, and for"could haves" and "what if''s" and "never agains". They represent our past, and for people of the Gulf Coast, memories and photographs are all that we have left.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Cypress Trees
Monday, April 14, 2008
New Beginnings
This will be a way to share my photography with those who care to see what I am doing. As I grow older, I grow more philosophical. My photography grows more and more to be the window to my soul because I put so much of myself into creating each photograph.
About a year ago I saw the following quotation posted at an art exhibit. It spoke to me in a profound way. If you substitute "photography" for "art" as you read it, you will know how I feel about photography. Photography captures a moment in time that can never again be duplicated, nor can a different person capture a scene in exactly the way that I, or anyone else, can.
“Art is a living river that runs through our time and will run on as long as art is created and appreciated. To purchase a painting is to take a dipper full of the river home to constantly be refreshed with the energy of life.” Stewart Turcotte