Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

–William Shakespeare, King Lear

It is now just week to the return of my annual Gallery Talk at the Principle Gallery after a four year pandemic-related hiatus. It takes place next Saturday, September 30, beginning at 1 PM at the Alexandria gallery.

While I try to make it a good time for the audience by passing on a few bits of information and having a few laughs along the way, I have a nagging suspicion that the bigger attraction for these talks is the drawing that is held at the end for one of my paintings.

And that’s okay. It’s always an exciting and fun moment when good Fortune smiles on some lucky person. I only wish I could give away a painting to every person there. Of course, that can’t be done but I do try to make it so that nobody leaves feeling empty-handed.

This year’s painting to be given away is On the Rise, a 12″ by 36″ painting on canvas, shown below.  

I also bring a small group of new pieces for the gallery. One new piece is the one shown at the top. I chose to show this blog entry since we are dealing with a theme of good fortune here today. It’ is quite fittingly titled Fortune’s Smile.

Hopefully, Fortune will smile on you if you can make it to the Principle Gallery for the Gallery Talk next Saturday. Hope to see you there. Good luck to you!

On that note, here’s a song from Mary Chapin Carpenter from a few years back. Well, 31 years to be precise. I guess that’s a bit more than a few years but who cares? It’s a fun song called I Feel Lucky with a real early 90’s style video. Enjoy!