2018 Calendar is available – 12 months of murals!
Hot off the press: a 2018 calendar with 12 beautiful photos of Lisa Curry Mair's large works on canvas. (The photo above shows details of each month's photo.) The calendar is printed on heavy stock with lots of room to write in important dates. It's just $20 plus...
Raffle-winner
Thank you for visiting my booth at the American Artisan Show in Wilton this past weekend. The winner of the little Angel Box is Susan Knieser of Newburgh, NY! I hope you will take a moment to wander around this website and see what I'm up to. You'll see regular blog...
Upcoming American Artisan Show in Wilton, Connecticut!
I will be traveling to Wilton, Connecticut next weekend to show my work at the prestigious American Artisan Show. The Show will take place Saturday, November 4, from 10:00 – 5:00 and Sunday, November 5 from 10:00 – 4:00. Admission is $10; under 18 free. Fifty...
Fox & Schoolhouse
While driving around with Bart last weekend, enjoying the car's A/C and the chance to get out of the studio, I caught a photo of the South Reading Old Stone Schoolhouse. Vermont has some wonderful old schoolhouses and this one, nestled in the side of a hill in the...
Purchase a Print. Help Houston’s (and Florida’s) Horses.
I completed a painting with the intent of raising funds for horses in need following the devastation in Houston (and Montana and now Florida...). I've done projects like this before and I feel it's a small way I can use my artwork to help others. Thanks to the great...
A Week in the Cotwolds, England
When our daughter Lauren informed us that she would be spending the entire summer in England, messing about with horses it didn't take us long to change our August vacation plans to include a visit with her. Bart and I had never been "across the pond" and really...
Suggestions please! Foxhunting, dressage, pastoral?
I would love it if the readers of my blog would help me in choosing subjects for upcoming paintings. I feel that I am finding my groove and I'm really happy painting these historic-feeling scenes with lots of stuff going on. The interaction between horses, hounds and...
Choosing Colors…
I have been painting a lot of horses this year and this makes me very happy! As I layout and compose a painting, I think about what colors are going to work best with each new piece. Yesterday I did a little pencil sketch to start thinking about a new painting. As I...
Living in another artist’s space
I was drawn to this place from my first step inside. Even though the couple we bought it from had spent 2 years turning Tom Clark's studio into an apartment, and carpets hung over doorways to keep the drafts out of the dingy, cut-up space, I could feel Tom's presence....
Floorcloth Painting Class at Rufus Porter Museum
Every summer I head to Bridgton, Maine for a couple of days to teach a floorcloth painting class at the Rufus Porter Museum. Bridgton is a great little town a little west of Portland, where many of Rufus Porter's murals have settled. I love teaching this class, as...