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Courtney J. Garrett: welcome new year- make yourself at home.

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welcome new year- make yourself at home.

well it's the start of another new year- this one should be as good as any other. so many changes happening for so many people... us including. as a year in review it has been super successful- new showings in New York all the way to LA...an artist could not ask for much more.

This year you can plan on a strong inventory set up for me...my plan is to have a back log of 100 paintings on hand...sounds' like it might take me 100 years to create-- but we will see;)

Also, Looks like I should be taking a month this summer to work in Rome. Italy, has always been a passionately ideal location for me, and the thought is exhilarating...

As for the studio- well it seems I'm expanding yet again...the work is getting larger and my need for space is increasing rather quickly... i will be working out of a warehouse with no regard to size limitations- it seems my studio needs to double in size about every six months or so- so hopefully about 1000 sq ft will work for the endurance. its nice to finally be settled into a large space for a long term setup.

Also... the book has been released from My wonderful husband (courtesy of his publisher Tate Enterprises)

- author; Beau Garrett--

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blessings-

like a rusty nail.

"A recording of time indefinite" faired as a wonderful opening in Birmingham. I was really pleased with the overwhelming turnout and all the new people I met. The show officially closes November 1, 2009. It will be quite a while before I release another mixed media body of work, so this would be good opportunity to see some of the paintings.

Since the show opened on the 1st of October a lot of changes have taken place in my life. We said fair well to our city loft and moved to a quaint little 1940's house. It's an old captains quarters from WWII -so it's still got some charm...and some quirks. So peaceful out here... But it was still an interesting adjustment after living a couple of years in an old school gymnasium.

On a sad note, we lost a dear family member on October 2nd. I have written before about my uncle who used to get us into the local pool for almost free in the summers---his sweet wife Denise suddenly passed the night after the birmingham show opening. I have never mentioned before-- but -My uncle is blind and can hardly see shadows, in fact most of his days are spent seeing complete blackness no color- no movements. One of the most memorable moments I have of the two of them was at their wedding years ago- it was at the town recreation center (folding metal chairs and all)---but I can remember the sweetness of watching two people completely in love commit their lives to each other. He had never even seen her-- but he loved her. It was a sweet time for me to be young and apart of something real and unadorned. just simple love...with blinders on. I found it interesting that I wrote of my uncle and the local pool towards the beginning of painting "A recording of time indefinite" and now at the end of the show I write again about him. Call it coincidence if you like, but the routes of "time indefinite" are curious and unexpected. I am thankful for family and for times of sincere reflection, and most of all the powerful existence God. When I asked my uncle how he was doing last he said, "i'm like a rusty nail, just hangin' in there."

I'm glad I could honor Glen and Denise today.

A true recording of time indefinite.

you are invited to a solo opening...

ben folds five plays loud.

often times it's the same rythm for me in the studio... i get down to the wire--- often times im so tired my mind won't create any thing new. but then there are days when i'm so inspired i feel like i'm dreaming. if you knocked on the door to my studio today, i would not answer. i am settled in with my inspirations, and i'm not moving. music... can i paint without music?...I found out the other day one of my paintings sold to a person that hung it beside a Joan Miro piece in their private home. It humbled me because Joan Miro was one of the modern master painters I studied when I was giving in to becoming a painter.

on my website i have a quote from him---"consider the silence of a painting. But in its silence, there is a choreographed pantomime, a ballet, voice and form." (Joan Miro).

Im reminded today that my inspirations are great and many- within the silence of my paintings there is hours of music that backs my work... some days it does feel very choreographed.

Long day today--

15 paintings in the studio...there's hardly enough room for me anymore.