Open Studio November 3rd!

Art Reflections

 Hi Everyone!

It certainly has been a while since I've been on here!

Nowadays, I most generally do any kind of posting on social media

via Instagram ( JenniferLanne.devilhopfarm)

or via my websites:

www.jenniferlanne.com

www.artathomecollection.com

I thought I better take a little time to catch you up an anything newsworthy just in case you missed it!

First of all my Open Studio is set for Saturday, November 3rd.

Here at Devils Hop Farm

268 Hop City Rd

Ballston Spa, NY

10am-4pm

I'll have the usual fanfare of paintings and vintage treasures for sale as well as my Art At Home Collection.

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Also, don't miss my features in:

 Reclaim Magazine issue #32

Flea Market Style Magazine Holiday 2018

Where Women Create Best Of Issue (November 2018)

You can also sign up on either of my sites to receive my newsletter to alert you of anything noteworthy, events or new items.

~Jennifer

Studio Entrance

Amaranthine Colelction

Vintage settee with backdrops

Large scale portrait backdrop

Art At Home Collection Velvet Trimmed  Pochettes

Draped with a backdrop

Floral painting

vintage treasures

floral painting

Holiday trimmings

large scale portrait backdrop 

floral painting 

pretty things

Antiqued Landscape paintings

Art At Home Collection Pillows

Flora and Fauna Backdrop

Framed!

Salvaged Inspiration 

Amaranthine Collection

Floral backdrops

Come one, come all!

We've been working like whirling dervishes to put together a showcase to dazzle and delight!

So it's time to cancel all your other plans, call in sick to work,

ditch the Saturday chores and beg a family member to sit in for you at your kids soccer game.

 

The studio's never been cleaner, the barn's never been cleaner or prettier.

So satiate your curiosity.

Take a peek and go home with a treasure.

 

On hand will be my original artwork, my new Art At Home Collection including tuffets, eiderdowns and pillows.

As well as Schuyler Pond Art At Home pieces...trivets, placemats, soaps etc.

We will be peppering in a few vintage goodies as well.

 

One day only!!!

Saturday September 24th

11am-5pm

 

Devil's Hop Farm

268 Hop City Road

Ballston Spa, NY



color contentment

Wading through my sea of photos on my desktop I sometimes see certain patterns emerge.

Most of the time the scrolling thumbnails look like a bag of skittles spilled out over a melted box of crayons.
Paintings and artwork in every rainbow brite hue.

There's a lot of color.
 

On the other hand, open my closet door and there's a dreadful array
of black and mumbling grays...with just a whispering hint of color tucked in here and there. I'm sure these color items are dying to just once see the light of day.
I swear I can  hear their pleas.
Someday I tell them. Someday.

hmm, interesting.

Then on yet another hand, exterior shots of my home seem to sport a little something in between...muted olives and purples.
Not exactly planned. I suppose I just buy what strikes my fancy.
Purple flowers for the garden. Lilacs, lavender, perennial catnip, roses in fuchsia shades.
Verdant foliage, olive and bronze green paint fill in the gaps.

I'm not what is to be learned here.
Basically, I live by absolutely no rule of thumb as far as color goes.
Just go with what makes you content, and then see what emerges!



Purple Perennial Catnip

Garden Rose





Canvas Bucket filled with Roses

"Orchid Roses"



Jennifer Lanne studio entrance



Summer table setting

"Turtle" using the cat ladder



OK, no purples here...but just cool how miniature I look engulfed in ferns!

~Jennifer Lanne

a room of one's own

...ok, a line stolen from Ms. Wolfe. But 'tis true.

We all need a special space to create and be creative....a place to step out of your own comfort zone..that said, here is my special place....my studio. Ah, how I can now think back fondly of the days painting at the kitchen table...harboring cans of paint in the corner by the fridge...the oven as my drying rack!

I have since upgraded to the barn....the one requirement as we bought our new/old house. Hubby and I went to task of gutting the old pig sty and removing 3 large dumpster loads of filthy, unspeakably dirty hay and garbage... If I am ever sent to purgatory I am sure that is what I'll be doing for eternity!

I will later post on the extensive barn renovating and will spare all the details for now....

So in the meantime here's a few shots of the finished product. My exterior studio entrance....the barn entrance with my welcoming moo-cow and an interior shot of some vibrant paintings.

I am so happy now to reflect on the good old days of walking uphill to school both ways, when a payphone was a dime, when you didn't know what was in fast food and when the cookbook stand was my easel.