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Virginia This Morning: https://wtvr.com/2020/01/16/r-home-magazines-newest-issue-featuring-dandridge-art/

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It was fun to share the evolution of my artwork into wallpaper and pillow designs and hopefully inspire teens through The Tribal Series to feel a sense of belonging as they step away from devices and social media. It was on Virginia This Morning on CBS 6 with Jessica Noll . Thanks to them, Meridith Ingram and R•Home magazine ! Current artwork is on display Puck’s Market and wallpaper and pillows Palette Home.

Sharing RHome

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THE CREATIVES

A big THANKS to Meridith Ingram, Brooke Chappell, Jay Paul, and Lee Hawkins for their Sept-Oct 2018 RHome issue #rhomemag The Creatives!!! And thanks to Williams & Sherrill Interiors, Richmond, VA for carrying my wallpaper line!! A shout out to Leah Muhlenfeld for her support! All of you have been a pleasure to work with!

I'm loving the process of Painting and Creating Wallpaper. It makes me happy to get it into homes to inspire the creativity that lives inside each of you! God calls us to use our gift ... go ahead!!!

Sharing .... The Artist's Way

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To reignite creativity in a profession that can be solitary, a friend recommended an oldie but goodie book by Julia Cameron: The Artist's Way 

Julia encourages artists through Creative Affirmations. Pages 117-118 read, "When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan ... we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express."

 

Sharing .... Enthusiasm

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While waiting for the Orthopedic to look at my knee in Richmond, VA, I was struck by the words on this VCU poster of student RAM fans cheering their basketball team on. It's a quote by Dale Carnegie and is as true today as it was then: "Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

Cheer each other on!

 

Sharing Japanese Aesthetics

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Sunday's sermon in Richmond, VA was the first time I'd heard of Wabi-sabi. It means finding beauty in broken parts. Wabi-sabi originates from Japanese aesthetics and celebrates imperfection in art. Seemingly the opposite of the Western world. As I start a new series, this phrase seems timely and appropriate to use as it's cornerstone. More to come ...

Sharing ... Flaws

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Daring Greatly - Brene Brown

Perfection is self-destruction. Perfection is addictive. "I'm not interested in hiding my flaws ... it's important to have self-kindness, especially when we fail."Perfection stifles creativity. From Leonard Cohen's song "Anthem":"There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

 

Sharing ... Solitude

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In February 2012, I was reading Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter. In it she describes a new word that I relate to when painting: synesthesia - an innate condition in which the stimulation of one sense triggers another as well. Mr. Greenberg, art critic, on page 266 states, "The emotion in that picture (painting) reminds me of all emotion. It is like a Beethoven quartet where you can't specify what the emotion is but are profoundly stirred never the less." On page 371 art critic Michael Gibson's review of Joan's June 1982 show at Musee d'Art Moderne Paris on Alfred North Whitehead's view of religion ... "religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness." Solitariness is something most people want to avoid at all costs, which explains why there are so few authentic artists.

Sharing and Relating to Robert Motherwell

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In October 2011, I was reading

Robert Motherwell by Dore Ashton, Robert Buck and Flam 

These few sentences grabbed me as I could completely relate to them:"The painting are not skills, that can be taught, but a process, whose content is found, subtle and deeply felt; that no true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began, anymore than anyone's life unrolls in the particular manner that one expected when young: that it is only by giving oneself completely to the painting medium that one finds oneself and one's own style ... such is the experience of the School of New York."The physical act of the hand moving in a painting is of great importance, it cannot be detached from the meaning of the image itself. The hand moves, feeling is transmitted. A gesture makes feeling intelligible.On p. 12, I like how Motherwell responds when asked, "what does the painting mean?""There are so many levels. So many decisions made through the creation of the painting that it becomes a slice of life ... a 'voyage'."Naming a painting is a primitive, inadequate but deeply rooted way of identifying the ineffably complex nature of reality."An artistic medium is the only thing in human existence that has precisely the same range of sensed feeling as people themselves do -"'The inner world' of the artist was a complicated human affair, and consequently difficult to express. That is why I invented my art. In this sense art is a necessity, a natural out growth of man's life."And it is our pictures, not ourselves, that live the social life and meet the public ... It is interesting that the creations of solitary individuals should turn out to have such a gift of socialibilty!" - Abrams (Wallace Art Gallery)p. 23 "My hand just flies and I do not even have to think; my my hand just does it, as though I am not there."p. 25 "It is more what you unconsciously know then what you think. In fact, I would say that most good painters don't know what they think until they paint it."p. 30 The central problem for all modernists remains:1. How to insure meaning which requires a certain amount of stability2. How to change meanings which requires a certain amount of innovation and disequilibrium.In short: a surprise. How far to go?