Art Show
Stop by Decorum Feb 18 - Apr 17, 2020
2421 Westwood Ave Ste E Richmond, VA 23230
804-282-9900
Virginia This Morning: https://wtvr.com/2020/01/16/r-home-magazines-newest-issue-featuring-dandridge-art/
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.
YouTube Intro Video - Wallpaper & Decorative Pillows
Decorative Pillows (Linen Cotton Canvas self corded) with Down Inserts | Available Sizes 20x20-24x24
Sharing RHome
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 .... current and upcoming SHOWS
Coleoptera | Acrylic on Canvas | 36"w x 50"h
Please join in visiting current shows and attending openings of upcoming shows.
Feb 23, 2018 - Mar 17, 2018 Group Show @ ART WORKS 320 Hull St. Richmond, VA 23224 804-291-1400 www.artworksrichmond.com
Mar 23, 2018 7pm-9pm Opening Reception Mar 24, 2018 10am-4pm READ Art Show New Community School 4211 Hermitage Rd. Richmond, VA 23227 804-266-2494 x2229
April 27, 2018 Opening Reception 6-9pm through May 19, 2018 Solo Show ART WORKS - Skylight Gallery 320 Hull St. Richmond, VA 23224 804-291-1400 www.artworksrichmond.com
Sharing .... inside the Artist's head
In HoldStill by Sally Mann, the reader is taken inside of the artist ...
As an artist working solo, it's easy to relate to Sally Mann's passage where utter transparency is revealed as she depicts in detail the struggle that goes on inside of the creative process. Beginning on pg. 281-283 ... This freak of a good picture inevitably inspires a cocky confidence, making me think this new project will be a stroll in the park. But, then, after sometimes two or three more good ones, the next dozen are duds, and that cavalier stroll becomes an uphill slog ... So I soldier on, taking one dodo of a picture after another, enticed by just enough promising ones to keep going ... Eventually the law of averages takes pity on me, and doles out a miracle: a good new picture ... dismissing for the time being my panic and despair." Misery loves company.
Sharing .... Enthusiasm
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 ... Silence
In reading this month's Town & Country I came across an article that "spoke" to me. And it was ironically titled: Do Not Speak. In our digital charged world, I am not alone in craving peace and quite. This article lists places people pay for just that. Their called digital detox camps as people realize their addiction. It sites the proven benefits of silence from a Duke University study. They found mice that had two hours of silence everyday, had triggered brain cell development. And in a study in the journal of Heart, found that silence had more of a calming effect on breathing and blood pressure than even soothing music.
Enjoy some silence!
Sharing at Hollins University
Yesterday I had the privilege of participating on the Visual Arts Panel for my alma mater's Career Conference in Roanoke, VA. To kick off the event Tina Wells, CEO and founder of Buzz Marketing Group spoke. There are 3 mantras that she lives by and encouraged the audience to adopt:
1. Assume that everyone has a POSITIVE INTENT
2. Always hold yourself ACCOUNTABLE
3. Choose a solution that is on a HIGHER GROUND - where the most benefit
Great advice for students and alumni alike!
Sharing Art With Charlottesville
Spent last Friday driving to Charlottesville, VA to put new art in Harris Fine Art on First Street South off the mall. Bryce's eye and focus on abstract art for the home make such a wonderful shopping experience. A true breath of fresh air.
Sharing ... Flaws
Summer 2012
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 the Strife to Have a Mary Heart in a Martha World
Fall 2012
Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World - Weaver
This sentence sums it up and I agree 100%: p. 57 "The problem is, contrary to popular belief, we can't do it all. We're not even supposed to try."
Sharing ... Solitude
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.