My next challenge - Going Forward: Without looking I found a Pearl in my Oyster.

My next challenge - Going Forward: Without looking I found a Pearl in my Oyster.: "While I spoke of my new challenges in art in an earlier blog on June 17th, 2011, I found myself with an opportunity to look for a Pearl in a..."

Without looking I found a Pearl in my Oyster.

While I spoke of my new challenges in art in an earlier blog on June 17th, 2011, I found myself with an opportunity to look for a Pearl in a ocean of Oysters. In other words an opportunity to start creating more art with the passion and emotion I felt while in my studio and again create enough art to have a solo show in 2012. Floundering about with my thoughts, I wondered about this obstacle ahead, where was my next venue going to be?

Within weeks of my departure from Outworks Gallery I found my Pearl in an Oyster, through friends, family, colleges and the art community. I was inspired by them to see and have optimism about the when, where and how this pearl will appear. As in a saying that I have heard so many times throughout my life," When a door or window is being closed, another is being opened".

Well a door has opened and I am proud to say that my destination for my next solo show will be at Great West Life in Winnipeg in the fall of 2012. While riding this wonderful wave, I am lucky enough to have another opportunity to show two of my abstract paintings in a group show at ArtView Gallery in New York this fall. Today, I am given another pearl.

How wonderful it is to have the belief from others that I will achieve through these powerful challenges and obstacles that come before me.

In my ocean of Oysters I've been fortunate to be given numerous Pearls.


" Imagine Art",captures the experience of passion, a rhapsody of intrigue in art.

Clyde D. Finlay

Let my Art World be my Oyster.

While contemplating my next challenge