Cristine Cambrea Art

Well it has taken me a week to catch up after taken last weekend off to go to NYC for the Art Expo. I’m still not totally caught up but getting there. The EXPO was INCREDIBLE!!! I will definitely be a regular every year. It was absolutely gigantic. You can’t possibly do it all completely in a day. For those of you who have never been to NYC I have posted some photos of the drive down the west side highway into the city. Funny I lived there most of my life and never photographed it. Driving through though I couldn’t help but think about how much I took advantage of the urban beauty. When I moved to Vermont I told myself I would never overlook the beauty of this state but of course after awhile I don’t pay attention. Off in dream world not noticing what’s right in front of me. I catch myself now and then though. It’s not just the scenery though we have the most beautiful old barns, buildings, and covered bridges as well. Inspired by all of this photography I’ve been doing I have come up with a new technique. I will talk more about it once I have completed some pieces. VERY EXCITING!! On the way back from the city we stopped at Magic Wings it’s a butterfly sanctuary in Mass. We have been there 4 times now. It’s a great pit stop on the long drive home from the city. I took tons of photos there. I will be offering prints of them soon. If you’re interested let me know art@ccambrea.com . We actually talked about getting married there amongst the butterflys. We are HUGE butterfly fans!! Flying flowers!! WOW!! Enjoy the photos!!

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Oh what a day! Blizzard like weather, internet on and off, car problems and we have to leave for the weekend. Wake up 4:00 AM off by 5:00 – and drive 6 hour. I’ll be finishing some pieces while I’m away. We are going to NYC for the Art Expo. I’ll see if I can take some pictures while I’m there. Well here are the photos I promised- a day late! I need to get some with the sunset- when I do I’ll post them. For now you can to see the grey Vermont day I had yesterday. Today was much worse snowy rainy combo with serious wind! Even when it’s grey it’s beautiful though isn’t it?

This one is through my window from the inside of my studio! This is the window I look through all day!

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Well I have a NEW studio space!! Finally I won’t have to stumble over my work!! My mom built a house a few years ago in this town I live in. She never lived here full time (she gave it a shot) she always commuted to NYC for work. That got old and she moved back to New York and now she rents the top part of the house and the bottom is a 2 bedroom apartment that over looks the mountains. She offered it up as a studio space for me and of course I jumped on it. It is very quiet and private and I quickly moved all of my things over there. It took 3 days and now I’m officially moved in and working! The only down side is there is no internet connection (to far from the road) buy maybe that’s a good thing. Without the internet as an option I will have to concentrate only on my painting. There is so much more space -more than I have ever had. The possibilities are very exciting! I now have a place where everything is spread out and while I’m painting I can scan the room and see over there by the window all of my little wood pieces and as I paint I am building in my mind my next wood sculpture. Having a studio away from my home has already helped me focus. It is so easy when you work from home to answer the phone, do the dishes, laundry etc. Plus Drew works from the house too and spending 24/7 living and working in the same space as your partner can get well -let me say this carefully (he reads these) stressful- that wasn’t so bad. He has a high stress job and just one bad phone call can turn this place into a mad house and forget about painting when that happens. So a studio away from my house even if it’s only a 4.5 minute drive is just what I need. I see larger pieces in my future and I won’t have to stop when I’m on a roll because I run out of room to put the finished work. So many times I have HAD to stop because I boxed myself in with the paintings drying on the floor behind me. Then there’s just no safe place to put the work so I HAVE to stop. Now if you are an artist and reading this you know how devastating that is. I mean when it works you need to go with it because there are so many days when it just doesn’t work or your just not in the groove. When it’s working having to stop because you literally have no where else to put the paintings just STINKS!! So to my collectors - I am SO SO excited to have this room and will make full use of it. Lots of new work coming!!! I’ll take pictures of the view tomorrow so you can see what I see when I’m working. It’s incredible! Well Vermont is really beautiful -believe me I don’t live here for the social life! But the sunsets from the studio are to die for- bright reds and purples! I placed my table right across from the view it’s also because -can’t have my back to the windows! Love hate relationship with windows and doors! HMMM I just checked my last blog post and it’s not there! I must have deleted it some how. Well I started painting on wood again. I have 3 new pieces up and one is in the works. I’ll post my latest here called “on edge”. As soon as I can get back to the place that I buy wood I’ll be doing some more. Some how every time I go there they are closed - I guess I hold different hours than the carpenters here. When I do finally catch them open they are nice enough though to let me fumble my way through all the wood until I find the perfect pieces. They always show me the nice perfect clean wood- and haven’t yet realized my perfect pieces are thier un perfect pieces. Well that’s it for tonight. I’ll try to get those pics of the view up tomorrow!

This link will take you to my wood auctions.

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