They Who Possess the Sea by Marguerite Janvrin Adams

After a season of travel and adventure, it is good to be back home again, setting up the studio and putting on paper pieces that I had sketched and imagined throughout the summer.  Ideas for new, exciting pieces are stacked, literally and figuratively, in my mind and on scraps of paper all over my studio!  They Who Possess the Sea, a beautifully imaginative and strong poem, by Marguerite Janvrin Adams, written in many colors of gouache on Canson paper is a good beginning!

The Cape Cod Calligraphers Guild is back in action, with our second meeting of the year taking place this Saturday.  We will be forming a guild committee to split responsibilities and enhance growth and participation. We will also be discussing plans for our first public show as a group, to be held next March at the Mass Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Teaching is also off to a good start.  I am offering a beginner/refresher calligraphy course from my home studio, to begin on Tuesday, October 11.  I am also presenting a lecture and three workshops at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in October and November, and another lecture and workshop at the University of Kentucky on October 20 and 21. 

The seasons keep rolling on by—as I am catching up on pieces inspired by summer activities, I find myself realizing that it's already time to start designing my Christmas card!  So much writing, so little time!