"Emporium Gallery" Exhibition, Knoxville, TN

March 02, 2020 in abstract painting, abstraction, acrylic pour, art for sale, blue ridge mountains, gallery, gallery art, juried show, landscape, manifesto painting, mountains

Honored to have two of my pieces juried into the Emporium Gallery National Juried Show in Knoxville, TN. Only 50 pieces were selected out of hundreds.

8 X 10”, acrylics, ink on archival surface

"Full Moon, December" by Catherine Twomey

December 13, 2019 in abstraction, art for sale, blue ridge mountains, gallery, gallery art, landscape, mountains

Winter is advancing. The sun sets earlier by minutes, every day. Something extraordinary happens to the sky, however. It seems clearer, crisper, more beautiful then any other time of year. It's energizing. I want to let the paint have a mind of it's own, with a little help from me. I want to capture the contrasts and clarity. Tomorrow, December 12, the full moon of December, called the Full Cold Moon, will arrive overnight tonight just after midnight eastern time, and as it rises it will be joined in the sky by the planets Venus and Saturn, which will be close together after reaching a conjunction on Dec. 11. This painting is unframed. It is on archival RayMar linen panel and is of the highest quality. Acrylics were used, along with inks and flow medium. It is a luminous, 8 X 10" original painting.

20 X 20”, mounted on archival board ready for framing. Raw canvas.

"Catawba Falls, Upper" by C. Twomey

December 05, 2019 in art for sale, blue ridge mountains, gallery, gallery art, juried show, landscape, mountains, waterfalls

I hiked the Catawba Falls Trail east of Asheville, trekking through a mossy, shady forest valley to a beautiful series of waterfalls on the Catawba River.

The headwaters of the Catawba River are beautifully scenic. Just east of Asheville, the river tumbles through a rolling forest, cascading in a series of waterfalls and flowing over a mossy riverbed set in a shady, scenic stretch of the Pisgah National Forest. I explored waterfall after waterfall in a sun-dappled valley, hiking just over two miles through a shady forest to the seeping wall of vibrant green moss and tendrils of water known as Catawba Falls.