Kelly Marszycki

Holidays over (thank god) but now the weeks of winter set in with a vengeance. My last few additions today were of my garden last summer (before the hurricane and freak snowstorm in October!). Actually, we never had an “end of summer” with that hurricane; and autumn was smashed to bits with the snowstorm. Maybe that’s why these photographs of my garden made me so happy earlie…

Perhaps it’s the darkness closing in earlier but there seems to be an incredible amount of work hitting RB these days. Amazing artists and photographers whose images take your breath away! / Just got back from a trip up to New Hampshire to a Quilt Festival — more incredible images, colors, textures. And the drive up and back took me through old apple orchards, past brooks and rivers…

These past few months of summer have just proved to be too much for me — glorious days for painting and taking photographs! Alas, the thought of going downstairs to my work area to actually upload to RB was just too depressing — dark and dreary — but cool, I’ll grant you that. / I was also lucky enough to be picked up by The Left Bank Gallery in Essex, CT for my works and…

It’s been too long since my last visit to RB — this season, so glorious — a riot of growing things bursting with color and demanding one’s attention — also demands a lot of hard work in the gardens! After many weekends of weeding, transplanting, pruning and planting, I have finally been able to take the camera out and celebrate the gentle chaos that is spring!