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"We'll Always Have Paris #12"

"The Back Story:  This painting is all about Love.  What better word to use when talking about Paris?  I've used two of Edouard Manet's paintings I consider highly emotionally charged  as well as a couple from my time in Paris when I was falling in love --with a man and a city.  We didn't have much money so we walked or took the Metro everywhere. One day we went to the zoo  and discovered the giraffes were in love, too."

This is one of the 15 paintings  of mine now showing at the Saline District Library, Saline, MI. through April 6, 2018. This  is  a duo show with  my son, photographer Orin  Cassill  who has a dozen of his art works on display as well.  We invite you all to come by and see them during library hours.  Saline District Library, 555 N. Maple Road, Saline, MI. Phone: 734-429-5450.

Fat Girl Thin Girl study  1

Watercolor on Yupo

This painting will be exhibited in the Illinois 31st National Exhibit during the month of May at The Next Picture Show Arts Center, Dixon,IL. Aritst's reception May 9, 2015.

Corn Hill Late Afternoon

Oil on canvas

12 x 16

The Face of Amalfi

This is one of the 28 images on display at the Ann Arbor City Club, 1830 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Fourteen images are from the group titled "Mediterraeo", all transparent watercolors

inspired by my visit to  the Coast of Amalfi, Italy.

Fourteen more are Watercolors on Yupo, a different painting process using watercolors.

The Solo show will be on display until September 3rd, 2014

Lounging Models

These two paintings are now on  display at Dancing Dog Gallery, 302 E. Liberty Ann Arbor. Reception for this group show is Friday, August 1, from 7 to 10 pm.

Bottles and Jugs #1

Night of the Moon Landing

Watercolor on Yupo

Celebrating the anniversary of the big event of 45 years ago. This is just one of six paintings

I'm showing at the Community Television Network, Ann Arbor, MI  with the Saline Painters Guild.

In the Studio

This watercolor on Yupo painting has just been juried into the 2014 Michigan Watercolor

Society exhibit. The Juror was Paul Jackson, a widely acclaimed watercolor artist.

  The show will take place at the Greater Flint Arts Council from June  7 to July 3, 2014

Opening Reception and Awards ceremony July 7. Gallery Opening Reception  June 13.

Eurydice's Garden - 2

I'm thrilled to report that my Watercolor on Yupo "Eurydice's Garden -2"  has been  juried into the pretigious Watercolor USa 2014 show at Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO.  The juror is Maggie Adler, Assistant Curator of the Amon Center of American Art in Fort Worth, TX. The exhibition opens June 6 and runs until August 3, 2014. Waterclor USA is one of the primary national  Watercolor shows and I am so happy to be a part of it.

Fish Fry

My recent Yupo painting "Fish Fry" was juried into the 30th National 2014 Illinois

Watercolor Society's exhibit. It will be showing at The Next Picture Show Gallery, a Fine Arts

Center, in Dixon, IL.  Fifty-five paintings were selected for this show by Juror Lenox Wallace IWS/MS.

Exhibit: May 6-30, 2014. Reception and Awards  ceremony May 10th.

Night with the Jug Band

Great News! One of my favorite Yupos, "Night with the Jug Band" has been accepted for the 74th Annual International Open Exhibition of the Norwest Watercolor Society. Juror was Donna Zagotta, AWS/NWS.  Exhibition takes place April 19 to June   6,   2014. Exhibition is held at the American Art Company, Tacoma, WA..  Reception and   wards ceremony April 26, 2 to 4 pm.  If any of y family and friends in the Northwest can make it I hope they will  stop by  and view the exhibition.

The Face of Amalfi

This painting is part of my Italian images I call "Mediterraneo". Titled "The Face of Amalfi" it received high praise from Juror Elaine Wilson, visual arts instructor at Washtenaw Community College in the Ann Arbor Women Artists Fall Exhibit 2012. "My favorite work in the exhibit is actually two paintings created by a single artist. Kay Cassill's  watercolor "The Face of Amalfi" and "Ravello Walkway".

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water"--Galileo

The Amalfi Coast is wine for the eyes"--Kay Cassill

This painting is part of my Italian images I call "Mediterraneo". It is now on exhibit with one other, "The Face of Amalfi" at the Saline District Library (the month of February 2014). The Garden and the Villa Rufolo are just off the busy Piazza Ravello which is guarded by the church and is the center of activity for this beautiful hillside town on the Amalfi coast.  Richard Wagner was so enchanted with the gardens he placed the second act of his opera "Parsifal" there. Looking back at my family tree--The Adams family tree--we find Richard Wagner! Nice coincidence. The artist Marilyn Holmes, my twin sister, accompanied me on this trip and has many fine watercolors to prove it. Check out her website, www.marilynholmesfineart.com