Still time to register for Plein Air Portugal for this, the 4th summer.  Artist run for artists of all levels.  Writers too!

www.pleinairportugal.com

A great summer to combine travel and creativity.  Northern Portugal is an inspiring, beautiful place.Lots to see at a very affordable price.Two programs:   
July 24- Aug. 1 - $1200  per person.                             
July 24 - Aug. 4 - $1550 per person10% discount for sharing a very generous sized room - with private bath.

Includes daily breakfast, 3 lunches, 3 dinners (including wine), daily maid service, jaunts to historic locations to paint/photograph/draw - or just look and think!

Exhibition at ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC

The exhibition: Wild at Heart - Our Affair with Nature remains on view until May 23.
If you find yourself in Raleigh, NC, please stop in - my work is upstairs in Gallery Two.
Artspace   201 E. Davie St.  www.artspacenc.org

The new website is LIVE - www.karenbellphoto.com

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Inside and Outside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a snowy first day of March

And don't forget to look at my new website:  www.karenbellphoto.com

A couple of my first iPhone photos.

A winter walk in the nabe.

Going forward, I will be using this blogspot page to post assorted images - some related to my current groups of work, some random sightings.  Check back often to see what I'm looking at and remember my new website is LIVE - www.karenbellphoto.com

NEW WEBSITE LIVE!

Happy to say my new website is now live.
Please take a look and let me know what you think.

You can always reach me at klbphoto@gmail.com

www.karenbellphoto.com

More updates:

The next stop of this show - Griffin Museum of Photography
Opening Jan. 10, 2015.  On display until March 1, 2015.

114 Warren St.   Hudson, NY   518-697-0266  contact  website  Friday to Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. & by appt Twenty Photobooks in Exhibition Thomas Alleman, The American Apparel; Rosie Barnes, Understanding Stanley; Karen Bell, Color Field; Andrew Fedynak, In the Light of a Fading Sun; Deena Feinberg, Morning Meditations; Poala Ferrario, 19 Pictures, 22 Recipes; Preston Gannaway, Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea; Cathryn Griffith, Weaving Hopes and Prayers; Miki Hasegawa (bos), The Path of Million Pens; Michael Hunold (bos), SHOOT; Robbie Kaye, Beauty and Wisdom; Kay Kenny, Into the Night in the Middle of Nowhere; Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Processed Views: Surveying the Industrial Landscape; Linda Morrow (bos), Calla; Alex Nichols, Proof That Nothing Matters; Nathan Pearce, Midwest Dirt; Rebecca Sittler (bos), All the Presidents’ Men; Kris Vervaeke, AD Infinitum; Heidi Woodman, Gold Fever; Sebastian Zimmermann, Fifty Shrinks MORE See all photobook artists exhibiting at Griffin Museum of Photography

Installation shots of the show:

F L O T S A M  &  J E T S A M

Photographs by Karen Bell
Alliance Gallery 37 Main St.
Narrowsburg, NY
Reception: Friday, August 15   7-9 PM

“For several years I have been
exploring natural curiosities—dead birds, feathers, insects, reeds, twisted vines, shards of ice—as discovered and photographed during my many
wanderings, or gathered and brought back to my studio where they get incorporated into my life and sometimes into images,” explains Bell.
Bell lives in New York City, but spends a good deal of time exploring nature both in the 
Upper Delaware River region and at the VCCA which is nestled in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. www.vcca.com

“Through my collections of feathers, leaves, insects, seed hulls, and other biological curiosities, I aspire to freeze the lens of time as objects reveal themselves in their (frequently) decaying splendor,” she says. “Chance and design converge in the creation of these portraits of our natural world.”

Bell photographs what she encounters in the natural world and also creates still-lifes in the studio. “Being a constant collector of flotsam and jetsam, I now find myself able to utilize the varied objects I collect into my image making, whether photographing in situ, on a surface, or using a scanner as a recording device.” www.karenbellphoto2.blogspot.com

The exhibit is sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County, NY, and is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the

support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. There will be a reception on Friday, August 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. www.delawarevalleyartsalliance.org.

Inkjet/vellum - more

Printing the new combos - vellum - not always my friend, but worth the challenge.
All are printed 13" x 19".  Moab Entrada is the base print.  Inkjet Vellum on top.

Looking at my books….

To see more of my books - please visit my old website -

http://karenbellphoto.com/books/books.html

Stilled Life 

Includes a wonderful poem by Dorianne Laux

Flotsam and Jetsam

Color Field - my last all film project

My interpretation of the Gates project.

Jardins du Plantes

City Park, Lynchburg, VA

Coney Island - a Flexagon

   

BUGS  Another flexagon

Exhibit at Westhampton Beach Free Library

On display now until June 1, 2014

End of March news.

More news and a sign of spring - finally.

May 1- 31 - I will be showing a generous amount of work at the Westhampton Beach Library - 7 Library Avenue, Westhampton Beach, NY.  
Open 7 days/week.
There will be a reception on May 24, Saturday, from  4-5pm.  

Registration continues to be open for the Plein Air Portugal workshops.
July 26- Aug. 1 - photo with me or painting/drawing with Dale Emmart.
Aug 2- Aug. 9  - photo with Peter Adams or painting/drawing with Dale Emmart.

www.pleinairportugal.com  for additional info and to register.

And now a taste of spring.  Can't come soon enough.

More News:

I will be leading a workshop in digital photography in Portugal this summer.  The program - Plein Air Portugal, started by Dale Emmart is in its second year.  It is open to all who paint, draw or photograph. Come for the first session - July 26 - Aug.1 or the second Aug 2 - Aug 8 or both!
Enjoy the beauty of the landscape, the food, the people.  We will be a small group, so lots of individual attention.

For more info:  www.pleinairportugal.com
                       www.pleinairportugal.blogspot.com

Email me at klbphoto@gmail or Dale - emmartd@aol.com  for additional info.


Second piece of news:

I just learned I will be having a show in Raleigh, NC sometime in the 2015-16 season.
Looking forward to seeing all my NC friends.  Stay tuned for additional info.

And now a look out my window:  Winter, 2014.   This is why I'm so looking forward to Portugal.