Author Archives: Jamie Ribisi-Braley

Our cabbage paintings side-by-side I love how in-sync we were this month! Working on new paintings at our own homes without talking about them at all, we wound up using the same subject matter!  Kim and I had looked at the cabbage growing on the farm in October but hadn’t painted them until this week. Kim andContinue reading “Final CSA Shows and New Work”

Cover Crop, Woven Photo Transfers on Cloth with Embroidery, 23″ x 11″ As I wrote about in my first post about the CSA project, Kim and I have been looking for a way to make a woven item that included our photographs.  We experimented with some ideas and even made a complete weaving only toContinue reading “Cover Crop”

This past Friday, Kim and I headed over to the farm to work and happened upon the first official Pasture Pie night!  The pizza oven was fired up and CSA customers were invited over to share in the fun.  They went into the garden and picked their own fresh basil to add to the farmContinue reading “Pasture Pie Party”

I went back to the farm on the 4th to see the progress of the clay pizza oven…it’s coming right along!! Fully modeled and the opening has been carved out with some wooden supports to keep the shape while it completely dries.  It looks as though they’ve lit a few small fires in it toContinue reading “Domes and angles”

I returned to the Wholesome Holmstead farm last Saturday to observe the clay oven workshop.  The plan was to have an open invitation for people to come and help them build a small clay pizza oven.  They had put the word out to their friends, family, and customers, and community…and what a jovial bunch showedContinue reading “Building a clay pizza oven”

Kim’s painting of the WH sign Kim and I had planned on going back to the farm on June 23rd to help them build their pizza oven…but nature had other plans! Heavy rain was in the forecast so the farm rescheduled for the following week.  But we figured we would get a few hours inContinue reading “Re-imagined”

Had another great night making monotypes.   I really loved the image of the big barn from the day before, but I wanted to flip the composition.  I loved the result and so I made one more (so far).  In the second one, I added red to give more dimension and a hint of theContinue reading “More barns!”

Hit the studio today making more monotypes for the CSA Project at the Harlow Gallery.  Like the last set I was working on, I’m really digging the look and feel of this process.  My husband taught me a method for monotypes using water soluble Speedball ink on a plexiglass plate.  I played around with it andContinue reading “Pulling more monotypes”

I’ve been neglecting my blog (as most bloggers do) but it’s not because I have nothing to say.  Quite the contrary, I have much to say but I’ve been blogging on the CSA project website and not here!  Shame on me!  So here I’ll cram it all into one post and then I promise I’llContinue reading “CSA project update”

My friend Kim and I were accepted to a very exciting project with the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, ME called CSA – Community Supporting Arts.  We were paired with a local farm, Wholesome Holmstead of Winthrop, ME,  and we are going to create a body of work based on our inspirations from the farmland, theContinue reading “CSA Project started”