Oils and Pastels by Margaret Dyer

I have spent a few broken hours in my new garage/studio. It's more garage than studio. No windows, no air or heat, no lighting. So I have to work with the garage door open. But I'm working! Here are a couple of things I'm finishing. Just trying to prove to you that I'm really back to work. While you are all still sleeping tomorrow morning, I will be flying to Cape Cod, where I'll be teaching a 3 day pastel workshop this weekend. Looking forward to seeing some down-to-earth artists there again. I have fond memories from my last visit several years ago. I'll be staying with Ginny Nickerson (http://ginnynickerson.com) in her lovely Cape Cod home. Am anticipating a memorable escape. I hope to be blogging from there, if I can figure out how to do it with an ipad. Very complicated. If anybody has figured out a simple way to do it, please let me know. Shameless plug here... I'll be carrying a beautiful new pastel box, constructed by the husband of one o...

Where to begin... Maybe with an apology for just all of the sudden jumping into your email box after prolonged silence. I have been recovering from a divorce and heartbreak, where I lost my partner, lover and friend; I lost a dream, a home, a future and a garden (some of you know how difficult that can be). I've spent 2 of the last 3 years in a fetal position, incapable of joining society, crying and praying for a healing in the relationship, wondering if I was pleading with a disinterested God. But I've come to understand that the answer was simply not what I had hoped. Ex husband now is newly married and I am forced to relinquish the hope that was keeping me sick and move on with my life. All of the sudden things have started changing. After trying for a year to get into a little brick bungalow (this was the one I blogged about over a year ago, sure that it was going to be mine) in a scary part of town and being thwarted at every turn, someone else got the house. I fran...