Some of my work from the Sugar and Spice series is now hanging up at The Front Porch. It’s one of my favorite local restaurants, just a couple of blocks from my studio, and I’m thrilled to have my paintings showing there.  My art will be up til sometime in December.

You can find my segment of “The View from the Bay” at http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/arts_entertainment&id=7051049.

Yesterday my studio mate Colleen Mauer and I got interviewed by a local TV show, “The View from the Bay,” about our art and upcoming Open Studios. It looks like the segment is airing today(!), on ABC-7 in San Francisco at 3pm. You can see it online at http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/arts_entertainment&id=7051049.

It was a novel experience to me, and not nearly as nervous-making as I’d feared. The interview, Nick Smith, was seriously charming and very easy to talk to, as was the camera guy. They talk to a lot of people and I guess they’ve gotten pretty good at it. Nick asked me a few questions as I stood in front of the camera, then did the same with Colleen. They shot footage of our art and some of us working - I ended up finishing a piece I wasn’t really intending to finish that way, as it was all I had ready to work on for the camera. I couldn’t use my left hand as I wanted to, as it was blocking the view of the camera.

All in all, I am almost certain I did not come off looking like an idiot. It will be interesting to see how it looks in edited form - what they use, what they cut.