Deidre Adams

339. Resonance, 30 x 40 inches, acrylic & mixed media on panel-mounted canvas, ©2010 Deidre Adams
This is a new painting I finished last week. I’m quite happy with it. One question I’m asked frequently is how do I know when it’s done? I’ll admit that I struggle with that. The best answer I have is [...]

Mining Chaos, 36 x 36 inches, acrylic on panel, ©2010 Deidre Adams
The past week has been a crazy emotional roller coaster, with extreme highs and lows. Briefly, one high was that I received notice that my textile piece Façade VII has been accepted into Quilt National 2011. This is just about the most prestigious juried [...]

Untitled work in progress, 40 x 30 inches, ©2010 Deidre Adams
Well, I don’t know exactly what happened, but after a summer spent mostly unfocused and adrift, I have returned to painting with a vengeance. Maybe it was the change of the seasons, maybe it was getting some lingering projects finished, maybe it was limiting my [...]

top – detail of Accretion No. 1: Periwinkle, 24 x 24 inches, acrylic on panel
bottom – detail of Fragment No. 4, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on panel
Did I really have a vacation a couple of weeks ago? It seems that I did, but the last couple of weeks since my return have been so [...]

Parable (working title), 36 x 36 inches. Thread, handmade paper, and acrylic paint on panel. ©2010 Deidre Adams.
I’ve been working more on my paintings in preparation for the thesis show. Although I originally started this series from an idea about the brain and cells and memory and dreams (see A State of Resonance), that’s all [...]

Untitled, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on panel, ©2009 Deidre Adams.
In my last post, I discussed my angst over having to finally settle on what kind of work I wanted to have in my Thesis/Portfolio show. A few days later, our class went to visit the site to get an idea of what the space [...]

Suspension. 22 x 30 inches. Watercolor and acrylic on handmade paper.
©2009 Deidre Adams
Sometimes when visiting Mexico or Florida or southern California, the thought has crossed my mind that it would be so awesome to live in a place where you have lush foliage and bright colors surrounding you all the time. But when I get [...]

Precognition. 22 x 30 inches. Watercolor, acrylic, and photo transfer on handmade paper.
©2009 Deidre Adams
Something I’ve wanted to do since starting this blog two years ago was get into the habit of posting on a regular basis. But I still have this idea that in order for a post to be worthwhile, I need to [...]

Resonant State No. 5, 36 x 36 inches, ©Deidre Adams
New Year’s Day is one of my favorite days of the year. All of the hoopla and frenzied compulsive consumption associated with the holiday season is now officially over. Nothing left now but a bright new start, a clean slate full of hope and quiet promise.
I [...]

Resonant State No. 1, 24 x 24 inches, ©Deidre Adams
Do you ever get the feeling that life isn’t always as random as we might think? I had yet another experience today that goes into the category of amazing coincidence.
Last week, I wrote about my Entangled Series, the first group of pieces that I did for [...]