During many conversations at art exhibitions, stories naturally arise from people as they encounter my blue paintings. I love to listen to these personal interpretations. It’s a form of collaboration that extends beyond the creation and into the realm of a painting’s new life outside the studio, outside of my own expression. And during this… Continue reading See your own blue story
Category: Background
How Bev Hogue’s Beluxe art got started with Blue in the Face, then Blue or Nothing.
Blue beginnings
Bev grew up sketching a full cast of characters in her hometown of Fenwick. The 1960s TV series Green Acres could have easily been filmed here with corn fields to run through and a 1920s-era gas station at the centre of town. The farming village was a station stop on the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo… Continue reading Blue beginnings