studio picture

Originally uploaded by bbmarie.

This is a picture taken in the carriage house studio that sits in the back of our house. The painting is based on a Modigliani painting I love. The frame is made of scavanged 2 x 4s redimentioned with a table saw. The perimiter of the frame is embellished with old linolium. I really love to recylce old materials in my work partly as a way to be responsible to enviornmental issues and as a way to save money, Using old materials also bring to the work a sense of implied history because of the nicks, dents, and patina they have collected over time. Some times it seems that the materials themselves radiate some kind of mystical vibration of there own that some how becomes kicked up another level as they become part of a work of art.