Drawing Club

Just spent a week here in Boston with Thierry Bogliolo, of Findhorn Press, the publisher of my book, The Confident Creative.  Thierry lives in the south of France and I think we might have had warmer weather if we’d met there! (Wouldn’t that be nice?!) As it turned out, there were massive snowstorms in the [...]

Just Kids

I just  finished reading Patti Smith’s memoir.  It’s the story of the very early days of her adult life when she was exploring her devotion to writing and art with a fervor that had a lot of flair to it.
The story takes off when Patti leaves a factory job in Camden, N.J. and heads into [...]

Back in the Studio

Back in the studio after a few weeks designing websites—my new art site—www.catbennettart.com and a new site for my book (The Confident Creative / Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind)—www.theconfidentcreative.com.  It has made my head spin a bit, have to say. But now they’re up, still works in progress, of course, but you can [...]

New Year Launched!

It’s a brand new year and we got to celebrate with wonderful friends!  2009 was very hard for so many people around the world.  We are mindful of that, especially having just seen the brilliant film, Up in the Air, in which George Clooney fires people for a living.  There’s something wrong with our current [...]

Doing the New

Ah, the artist’s life—so many challenges and uncertainties!  I had a wonderful chat this morning with two artist friends about just that.  We work away and art always presents us with the brilliant challenge of going where no one else has gone. That’s thrilling but we never know what will happen later. Will we sell [...]

Bell Tower Artist Talks

The art show at Bell Tower Place in Watertown was great fun.  Wonderful new connections were made between artists and art patrons and we got to show our work in the beautiful condo spaces created by Karnig Ostayan and his team in the old church at the corner of Mt Auburn Street and School Street.  [...]

Bell Tower Art Show

Two weeks ago I had no idea that I was organizing a huge art show but—here we are!  Somehow we’ve gathered 12 wonderful artists together and mounted a show in 2 giant condos that have been carved out of an old church. The opening is tonight!  The way it all came about is that [...]

The Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company

The four paintings for The Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company series that was shown in March at the Arsenal Center for the Arts here in Watertown, MA have been photographed and the jpegs arrived today.  Thanks to photographer, Mark Peterson, for his invaluable help!
My idea for the paintings is that if we all wore a Mahatma [...]

Happy Day to the Artist Mother

At the Saturday morning drawing class Maggie, mother of four boys, presented me with this beautiful hand-stitched broach, a portrait of me she made from a blind contour drawing.  I’m so very touched by this gift and think I’ll frame it so I can see it every day  as it’s so full of life and [...]

Rex Ray

I was in Montreal with my daughter this week visiting my mother.  I sure didn’t expect to find this fantastic Rex Ray book but Montreal is a city that loves art.
I discovered Rex Ray last year when I bought a boxed set of cards produced by Chronicle Books with Rex’s art.  As you can see, [...]