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Open Studios, Open Hearts: 24 Barracks Artists in Santa Rosa
Opening a studio is like cleaning a window into the inner life of the artist. Down the rabbit hole we go! Saltworkstudio Nov. 2011 It’s more intimate than having people into your home, because you...
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Ira Glass, Semiotics, Studios, and Salamanders
Salamander Winter, acrylic combined media on Fabriano paper, 23″ x 23″, Suzanne Edminster Last night I closed my open studio after an impromptu party with three muses , one rather hairy, in which the...
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How We Built the Trojan Horse: A Four Hands Collaborative Painting Process
Trojan Horse, "Final" Version. A Four Hands Painting. The Trojan Horse was surprising to both of us. Just how did this image develop, seemingly independently of plan or will? What was happening...
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A Contract with Creativity: 5 Tips on Time for Art
I am secretly annoyed when people ask me “How do you do it?” I have a job. I make art. My first thought is that any young mother is ten times as busy as I am. It’s just that she doesn’t get the...
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What It Took for “Upside Down”
Upside Down by Suzanne Edminster, 36″ x 48″ Artists are often asked how long it took to make a painting. Less often are they asked about materials, techniques, theme, and concept. I’ve decided to...
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2013: New Saltworkstudio, New Classes starting January 27, and a New Start
A big tuba shout out to you, friends, readers, and painters, for 2013! The Hubbub Club drove out all the creative heebie-jeebies during my new studio warming in the Uribe Gallery in the SOFA arts...
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Crazy Mixed-Up Media to the Jury
Wealth I just submitted to a locally famous, heavily juried open studio tour that I will call Art Paths. I was juried into Art Paths before, but did not participate for a few years, and so lost my...
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Screwtape for Artists, Letter 1
The Screwtape Letters, written by C.S. Lewis in 1942, is a series of wickedly funny and ominous letters from a higher demon, Screwtape, to a sub-demon, Wormword, who is in charge of corrupting a human...
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A Trace of Gold
A Trace of Gold series at La Crema Tasting Room Selfie with “Phaistos” It’s been a summer full of road trips, but my newest show, “A Trace of Gold” is staying put, on view at La Crema tasting room in...
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Saltworkstudio Art Blog turns six.
My shadow on Arizona petroglyphs. Dear interweb world humans, beings, friends, voyeurs, and artists, Thanks for following me all these years! It has been a journey reflective of my inner world, a...
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How to Use Gold Metal Leaf in Abstract Painting, Part 1
Abstract Paintings with Gold Metal Leaf – Suzanne Edminster Gold leaf always seems so complicated. It makes us think of old masterpieces and secret processes. How can you use gold metal leaf in...
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A History of Home
A HIstory of Home in the window of the Art Museum of Sonoma County [About Lascaux cave paintings, Paleolithic inspiration, and my abstract painting process.] Once in a while we are lucky enough to...
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