Fun at Park City

Today we took Liam to the Park City Art Festival. We have been going to the Art Festival for the last 10+ years. It seems that a lot of people go to look, but we go with the intention to buy. We both love art and now that we have more horizontal and wall space at our new home, we are happy to fill it even more! Usually when we go, we take a look at all the booths, and then try to decide what we want to buy. By the end though, we usually are hot, tired and a bit grumpy and it's hard to discuss what we really want...This year was different because we had Liam with us, and we knew that we would not have time or energy to go up and down Main street trying to decide what to buy. So, we decided to just go ahead and just buy what we like as we went. This resulted in us splurging a bit, but I guess it makes up for last year when we only got one piece. It was a bit tough last year because we hadn't moved yet, and didn't really know what we wanted for the new home. Anyway, we had a great time, and Liam was a perfect angel. He didn't fuss much, and it seemed he enjoyed being out and watching all the people. Everyone commented on how cute he was too!! As we got on the bus, I remembered that I forgot my camera, so I don't have any pictures other than the ones on my phone...but I will post some pictures of a few of our favorite pieces.

The first is from a local artist that we have bought several pieces from over the years. Her name is Alison Armstrong, and she makes collages with different pictures and images. Her earlier work is more serious, and her later work is more whimsical. We love both genres of her work, and find it interesting and quite unique. And it was nice that she she gave us a frequent buyer discount! We got a few new ones from her this year, and this one is our favorite. It is called 'Mesmerized' and this is a copy of the original that she made, but the print we got is a little different, but close enough.


The second is from an artist that we bought the single piece from last year. It was a piece that we wanted to find for our babies room. This year we found a few smaller pieces to put in Liam's room too. Her name is Lisa Telling Kattenbraker. The originals are batiks and the limited edition prints are reproduced from them. This on is titled 'Waiting Room' and we thought it was so cute for LT's room.

The third artist we had seen in previous years, and decided to buy a couple prints from her. Her name is Barbara Kline, and she makes surreal photographs from different photos, and then finishes it with transparent oil paint. This one is called 'Secret Garden'

Pottery is our favorite medium of art, although for the last several years we haven't found much that we liked at the festival. This year though we were able to find a couple new pieces. ( I don't have any pics of them yet, but will post them later). You can see the website of one of the artists here, but it's under construction at the moment. The other pottery artists site isn't working at the moment but her name is Yvonne Hegney, and her work is so different than anything we have, and we were glad to find something new like that.

All in all we were pretty happy with our finds, and we were really impressed with how well Liam did there!