The artist at home series : 'Keep the evil spirit away' blue... Lou Mullan

It is always a fun privilege 

getting a peek into the home of an artist 

right?

cerreus cactus at full moon

This place  that helps them create,

 this refuge that feeds their work. 

where experiments with color and mishaps are concurrent.

where life and art intermingle.

 Some artist's homes are modest.. Some are amazingly pristine and carefully ordered with drawing spaces, painting galleries, and meditation zones. 

Some are a study of chaos, 

but in all of them... the artists are inspired to beautifully create. 

and so....we continue in the series...

Join me.

Enter Local artist Lou Mullan. 

currently working on her website

Beloved former art teacher, Creator, Dancer, Soul of a Gypsy

Color Whisperer. People Gatherer.

upon stepping up to her 'keep the evil spirits away blue' cottage

a particularly striking shade

you are met by a totem of gathered faces

created, in part, by those of us at one of her parties

given a handful of clay...we created faces as we talked....ate...drank.

People gatherer.

Inside her abode is a kaleidoscope of color 

with art mostly hers on the walls

jewel colored glass languidly dangling in front of kitchen windows

walls of art books

 Everything is a canvas...as depicted by the back of the vintage

dining room hutch. 

Now hidden. But the entire back is  alight with this painting

grapefruit groves at sunrise

looking closely...one can see the swirls of color behind the Asian relic

cookie jars collected for decades line her kitchen...and to be fair...the wine and liquor bottles

were from another fun people gathering this weekend.

The bathroom even houses favorite art

and gatherings....

this of collected shells....with faces. 

A seashell party

if she had a spirit animal...It would probably be the crow

prominent in her work

almost human in their expression

Art and books...align the new reading room

once her studio...in the process of moving

family heirloom maps of their old stomping grounds

in upstate NY awaiting their chance to fill the walls...

 Her studio now in the updated garage

often filled with the children of her students...her grandchildren...

the legacy continues

young talent Drew

Outside Lou's home and studio is the beautiful and natural tangle of what is old Florida

fern pathways walking away from the provocative blue

seemingly adopting the color

The mingling of art and home...

Design has to work.

Art does not.

...Thank You Lou.

visit other Local Artists and their inspiring homes I have visited:

Ginny Piech Street

Julia Carter

Renee Guerin

Dale McGee