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About Me
- Dayna Collins
- Pacific Northwest, United States
- I am a woman trying to navigate being 50-something, to not dwell too much on getting older, and reminding myself constantly to live in the moment. I am a woman who loves books, reading, and used bookstores (especially Powell's in downtown Portland). I am a woman who is discovering art after years of raising kids, working, and going to school. I am a woman who loves collage, painting, mixed media, and assemblage. I am a woman who loves gunkholing in junk stores and picking trash up off the street just for the thrill of its possibilities. I am a woman who has a mantra to BE BOLD.
Portland Art Collective
I'm a Member!
Lunaria Gallery in Silverton
I'm a Member!
The Mixed Media Artist - coming October, 2013
I'm one of the featured 40 artists
Beneath the Surface: Searching For Memory
Guardino Gallery: February 28 -March 24, 2013
Sacred Scraps Exhibition
Willamette University February 2013
Day of the Dead at Guardino Gallery
October 25-November 18, 2012 - I was in the show.
Visual Artist Studio Tour
I participated - September 15-16, 2012
LAYERS OF MEMORY
Guest Artist at Lunaria Gallery August, 2012
Outside the Box II at People's Gallery
May 2012 - I was in the show
Salem Art Group: The Blue Show
April - May, 2012 - I was in the show
Heart of the Matter at Guardino Gallery
February 2012 - I was in the show
The Art of Communication: 100 Artists Show at Mary Lou Zeek Gallery
February 2012 - I was in the show.
Portland Art Collective Open Doors Show and Sale
December 2 and 3, 2011 -- I was in the show.
Little Things 11 at Guardino Gallery
Month of December, 2011 - I was in the show.
Small Things For a Prettier Life at Mary Lou Zeek Gallery
Month of December, 2011 - I was in the show.
Artists in Action: Visual Artist Studio Tour in Salem
September 17-18, 2011 Alley Art Studio was on the tour!
The Pulse
I'm Participating
May/June 2011 issue of Somerset Studio
Fearless Faces on Page 115!
Heart of the Matter 3 Group Show
I was in this February show.
Portland Love Show 6
Portland Show - My work sold!
Facing Fear
Portland Show - My work sold!
Fall 2010 STUDIOS Magazine
Alley Art Studio is featured!
Willamette Woman September/October 2010
I was a featured artist!
The Vintage Moth
5 comments:
Dayna, your photos are extraordinary! it's true-the light IS amazing. All these images I want to print out, and put into an altered book of my own. how on earth can a girl resist buying out the entire Market!? ps. howard looks fantastic! love, carole
"It was fun seeing your blogpost today. And it was funny. I like the crazy head at the end. I like your pictures. The food looks tasty and delicious! It has been exciting to look at your pictures. I like when you went in the cave the other day. And I like the pictures of the graveyards." Third graders comments of your blogpost today.
We have some questions for you too:
"What is in the little present on the table with you while you are sipping your cafe o le?"
"What has been your favorite part of France so far?"
"How did you take the picture of Howard touching the top of the aquaduct?"
"What was Howard looking at through the telescope?"
Thanks for taking us on your adventure through France!
I love you (that's from your daughter) :)
Such fun to have you along on our trip to France! And very good questions. Here's our answers:
The little present is a pastry. They wrap their sweets in little boxes with paper and ribbon! It makes it very special (and oh so delicious).
At the aquaduct, it is very tall. In one of the pictures, Howard is pointing and not actually touching the aquaduct. But, we did climb a whole bunch of stairs so that we could get to the top. It was at the top that the water flowed back in 19 BC when they were using it to transport water. The middle layer of the structure is a bridge that is still used today to get across the Rhone River.
Howard was looking through the telescope when we were at a natural preserve. They had these little wooden buildings tucked in the bushes so the birds and wildlife wouldn't know that humans were watching. Howard was looking at some beautiful white egrets, a long-legged bird. We got to see one of the birds catch a large flying insect and watched it get swallowed whole while the wings were sitll flapping!
Our favorite part of France is a tough question. Howard says his favorite part so far is the prehistoric cave drawings. My favorite is the Market - so lively and full of so many choices: food, fruits, clothes, shoes. I also love taking photographs of old doors and windows. And we both just love wandering around the old parts of the cities.
Ask us any other questions you can think of and let us know if you want us to take photographs of anything in particular.
Howard and Dayna
The market is sooooo visually delicious! The spices...the meats...and my goodness I felt like I could taste the tomatoes! what a treat to see on a dreary grey Thursday morning.
The spices and east indian take away look wonderful. I love the doors and windows you have photographed, a book on their own.
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