Happy New Year! A quick update - I’m hanging a lot of my latest work at Andalu restaurant this Monday, January 4. The reception is that very evening, so please come have dinner with us at Andalu: 3198 16th St. @ Guerrero, San Francisco - 415.621.2211. 10% of the evening’s profits will be donated to Streetside Stories. It’s a great chance to see all my latest work in one place. The artwork will be up at Andalu through the month of January.

I hope your December’s been great so far. I’ve had the usual hectic-getting-ready that this month usually brings, along with an unseasonable (for San Francisco, anyway) cold snap. I’ve been shivering at home and in the studio working on some new Net and Nest paintings, of which you can get a sneak peek if you visit my studio at Secession Art and Design, 3361 Mission St, noon to 7pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

All my small butterfly paintings and boxes are available at Secession too! These are original mixed-media paintings and boxes, and since most are well under $100 they make really lovely, thoughtful gifts. Secession’s going to be open til 7pm on Christmas Eve, so even your last-minute shopping can support independent artists and designers!

If you’re not in San Francisco, or prefer to shop online, these paintings are also available on my Etsy site - I’m offering free shipping there through the end of the year.

In the new year I am going to be showing my Net and Nest paintings at Andalu restauarant, January 4 to February 1. And in July I’ll be showing some work at Arrivederci in San Rafael. I’ll keep you posted.

Many of my “Earthly Desires” paintings are hanging in the display window of Vi Gallery at 4 Embarcadero Center. It’s a boutique located on the Lobby Level (which is one floor up from street level), and the window with my art is quite near the staircase leading to the ice rink.

These paintings will be at Vi Gallery til January, so be sure to stop by! The boutique is full of other interesting artisanal fashions and decorative items, and is definitely worth checking out.

I’ve heard from a few people that they’d like to be able to subscribe to a calendar of art events that I’m  involved in, so to that end, I’ve created a Google Calendar called Heather Robinson Fine Art. If you’d like to check it out, subscribe or share it with others, here’s the HTML link. If you use an iCal compatible calendar, here’s the iCal link. Let me know if you have any problems with them.

I’ll be sending an email about this sometime this week, but I’ve got several events and shows going on this month and the next, so I thought I’d tell you about them here.

This weekend, I’m showing work with the San Francisco Artist Guild at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park on Saturday the 7th. Stop by if you’re going to the deYoung or the Academy of Sciences; we’re right in between.

I’m showing some of my Earthly Desires work at the St. Stephen’s Art Angels show in Belvedere, November 13-15. Friday night is the preview party, and the show is open to the public on Saturday, 10a-5p and Sunday, 9a-1p.

After that weekend, most of my Earthly Desires paintings will be displayed outside  Vi Gallery in the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. I don’t have exact dates yet, but they should be up for around a month starting in mid-November.

We’re having a happy hour at Secession Art and Design, 5-9pm on Friday, November 20! This is to mark the ending of the show of my latest work, Net and Nest, which comes down on November 29. If you haven’t had time to see it yet, please come by.

Lastly, I’ll be showing work at Chillin’ on the evening of December 5 at the Mezzanine.

Whew! I hope to be able to squeeze in some actual painting this month, as well.

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.