Years ago when I was young and foolish, but then I am still bat-shit silly so let’s start over.
I started this blog to bring attention to the wealth of artists living and working in the South Coast area. We have so many gifted people doing os many wonderful things it is hard even under Covid restrictions to find the time to cover all of them.
Now that the Coos Art Museum is open to the public, (Yeah!) we can go and enjoy the incredible works of Susan Dimock. I would do anything to create images as wonderful as those Susan makes, except of course spend the thousands of dollars on equipment, hours sitting in the icy dawn waiting on some damned bird or traveling hours with a car full of stuff to get a look at some rare and incredible bird. Okay, I’m pretty sure Susan is safe.
And let’s not forget the Wonder Twins, Jardin and Kristen, who feed us such delights, host our various parties and then manage to open their doors to an art show! Just not fair that two such nice people should also be so talented.
And I could go on and on mentioning the Art Connection where in spite of working with artists they manage to get all of the things we desperately need but lack the words to explain what our madness has driven us to use. What about the unsung, the crafts people, wood workers and potters and all those skills. Just cruise the Framer’s Market Wednesday and in among the lettuce and artichokes, you’ll find some amazing things.
And then there are the venue directors, like Janne LaSalle, Ava Richie and Susan Lehman who are amazing artists in their own right, but find the time to allow those of us too self-focused to know what day of the week it is to have a place to show our work.
It is a mammoth job to find the words to cover all of this artistic activity which is why I almost never say anything about what the Ole Trawler is up to.
Yes, the other shoe is about to drop, the Ole Trawler has an announcement.
My new book, the first in the Gonifs series, has just been put up on Amazon. Been a long time coming and as a first time author I’m guessing two copies would be a great sales record, but damn it it got done. So now there’s a link to the Amazon page.
No one has to buy but clicking on the link will make amazon think kindly of me.
