Art vs. Life

This Saturday a Special Look at the Creative Life

This has been a very strange summer at the Studio on Slough Road.  The Sidwells were in Spain, Portugal and Morocco for the month of June.  Leaving the Creative Life at Slough Pond in the capable hands of David Gessner and Nina De Gramont, while her new book "Gossip of the Starlings"  took off, and arriving home to  the opening of Benton Jones,  a well known Brewster Sculptor and glass artist from the Millstone Gallery,who had just sold a beautiful work to Eric Clapton. 

One of our deepest desires for this space is that it promote, inspire and help give birth to art , writing and culture.  That already has been beyond any question.  We are so thrilled that people are beginning to understand our mission here, which is to share whatever good fortune and support we have received to make the idea ot Cape Cod as a cultural, creatve Mecca viable for artist and other creative people.

We were so overwhelmed by the event for visiting artists Allison Stewart and Campbell Hutchinson from New Orleans and Aspen.   We had a wonderful evening of Celtic culture with paintings of  the red haired Highland Bulls, and visit from the wonderful piper and
drummer who brought misty eyes to Bill Murphy from Edinborough as they marched  down the road and played the songs of  his boyhood.

The trip to Portugal connected us with the wonder of Fado and new realization that Provincetown is the connection to Lisbon. We have placed the music of Mariza on our website to be the siren for new works about this beautiful , mysterious  experience of Fado.   If you don't know of Fado and we didn't, it is a gorgeous art form that is the soul
of Portugal, and Lisbon.  It takes you under like an undertow and you are gone, you are a slave to fate.   Such a beautiful form of expression it will feed my work for years to come.   We hope to connect to the Portuguese Festival next year with all this new inspiration.   The website is now showing some of the new work and this beautiful music. www.studioonsloughroad.com

 Now for the latest event, we are so  thrilled that Boston artists, well known on Cape Cod,and long time close friends of the Sidwell, Carolyn and John Evans will present a beautiful and provocative show of early works, rarely shown, from their personal archive.    Carolyn will show powerful and iconic sculpture from her early career, some
shown years ago with Alan Stone in New York, that will delight and perplex the viewer.
The work is fanciful, but belies a more powerful look at the nature of  both man and beast alike.
John will delight the art community with emotional work of the artists as a young man
in quest of mastery and meaning.

Both are graduates of Boston University and are collected nationally.  John, by the Smithsonian, the Fogg Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine arts.  Carolyn, a native of
New Orleans has recently shown at Cole Pratt in NO, and is collected at the New Orleans
Museum of Fine art as well as many national collections.

Come join us for wine, hor d'oeurves and summer chatter as we enjoy the overgrown
gardens  at Slough Road. Saturday, July 26, 5:30 to 8:30 .

We have begun our Filmfest, a  series of fun  cinema for friends and family,  We recently had seven children under  ten for about a week, all cousins.  We retire to the back outdoor cinema and watch film under the stars on our bedsheet  hung on the wall.   Popcorn and marshmallows are the fare of the evening.

Come join us this Saturday night for the Evans Opening Reception on Slough Road.