hi, this is GroveCanada.ca, one of Joseph & Sari Grove's art studios online, we are using kama pigments walnut oil paints now from Montreal, so, Sari posted this photo above-this bakery serves little walnut shaped cakes filled with red bean paste ...delicious! (walnuts are tree nuts, which are less allergic for people with ground nut allergies like peanuts...Linseed or flaxseed grows in the ground, so ground nut sensitives can also be sensitive to linseed (which is the more common mixer for oil paints)...below is a short flic with hot cars...with help from Joseph Grove in the editing process...(& car info)!
| Happy Accidents is a two page PDF file about the screw-ups that happened during the creation of magnolias, & the lessons learned that were good...One thing I forgot to mention was bringing a collector into the studio before the painting was finished...The yellow colour would have dulled by the time it was dry, but the comment made was that the yellow was too yellow...So, of course, I inadvertently smushed some black into the yellow, while it was still drying...an accident actually...But probably a subconscious response to the comment...though the black grit does add texture to the yellow...But still, when I did it, the horror...(you know, pure yellow, then you mess it up...it is better, but... |
“you’re just looking for a Goldilocks Summer: Not too hot, not too cold... “ Joseph Grove, my husband...
Sari Grove: an artist bio...
I walk around, sometimes I run, now I bicycle a little, & I think & look at the spirit & the beauty of what is in my path...For months, I ponder my next painting...When the time is ripe, I dash with my prepared canvas & my oil pastels & capture in plein air some blooming subject, using a stream of consciousness freedom in my sketch to allow for happy accidents...Later, outside, with a knife & my oil paints, I make it real...
I sent a painting as a thank you to Teri Franks of Fine Art Registry.com for her tremendous & magnificent help, & providentially, that painting will be in a museum in Phoenix, Arizona, called the FAR museum...when it is built...
I am happy to be working with National Mailbox at 33 Hazelton ave. in Toronto, who are willing to challenge normal paradigms of gallery selling, by allowing me to meet “met-on the-web” collectors in the viewing room by appointment, thereby converting digital followers to bricks & mortar business, year round for me...(with a 1/3 commission to them, which is just right)...
I did a year at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, a half year at York University in the B.F.A program, a summer on Ward’s Island through Atkinson College, then I received a B.A. from McGill University in Montreal, went on to summer school at Harvard University in Cambridge, then some post-graduate study at Humber College & at Ryerson Polytechnical University...My grandfather & great-uncle’s work can be seen at The Hockey Hall of Fame, “The Turofsky Collection”...
I was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada & I still like it...Maybe also ‘cause I live & work here with my husband, Ottawa born artist, Joseph Grove, & our two lady bengals...
Avalanche Buffalo
Below is a song I wrote about being in an avalanche in Colorado...I landed in a warm hollow where a buffalo had died many years before...It saved my life...Sari Grove (I was skiing)(performed live & accompanied instrumental using mac garageband)...
Magnolia is a 36 by 48 inch oil on canvas by Sari Grove
MAGNOLIA IS NOW SOLD...Just before Canada Day, 2010
C$
6,000.00
T-shirt from Fairweather says 'Faithful'
Talk to Sari or Joseph Grove...
Yesterday I learned:
*that when you throw a ball, you have to let go, you have to learn to let go, that if you hold on too long, the ball doesn't go as far...(playing fetch with a pointer dog)...
* that if your painting has many many different aspects, each aspect for a different demographic, the painting will appeal to a wider range of people...(of course)...(like, a Cy Twombly painting, has scribbles for children, literary references for university students, abstract parts for art aficienados, figuration for the general public... which is why his work is so successful on such a broad range...)
*melatonin (darkness) & Vitamin D (sunshine) are opposites...(which I knew, but hadn't really thought about)...
*that when you throw a ball, you have to let go, you have to learn to let go, that if you hold on too long, the ball doesn't go as far...(playing fetch with a pointer dog)...
* that if your painting has many many different aspects, each aspect for a different demographic, the painting will appeal to a wider range of people...(of course)...(like, a Cy Twombly painting, has scribbles for children, literary references for university students, abstract parts for art aficienados, figuration for the general public... which is why his work is so successful on such a broad range...)
*melatonin (darkness) & Vitamin D (sunshine) are opposites...(which I knew, but hadn't really thought about)...