Zografis News & Travels

On September 14th, 2007, exactly one year after having my knee replaced, Steve and I moved to Turkey! My artist’s eye is busily absorbing the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of this amazing country. Naturally, I am eager to paint what I see and share it all.

We are currently situated in the City of Bursa, commonly known here as “Green Bursa” because of all the parks and trees. It is a very intriguing place and we have been exploring almost every day since we arrived. Of course, work will begin soon, so our exploring will be a bit less frequent, but there is so much to see and encounter.

We are very fortunate to have a local contact, formerly a student at LSI where I taught in San Diego. His family owns a business here, and he has taken on the role of guide and mentor, so we will have some really wonderful opportunities to explore things from a local perspective.

I hope 2007 is going to be a great year for us all. If you check in often, you’ll notice there haven’t been a lot of additions to the site since my surgery. Recovery is a longer process than I expected. On the bright side I do have several works in progress!

Look for new additions in February, including some series paintings and a gallery just for Art Money!

cheers!

On September 14th I had Total Knee Replacement surgery on my right knee. while it has temporarily slowed me down quite a lot, I expect that once the healing process is complete, I will be able to scramble around ruins once more and find even more artistic inspiration through traveling. Enjoy the site and look for new works to be posted sometime in October.

The world is a very cool place, and people with creative minds help keep it that way. I’d like you to check out the Bank of International Art-Money! http://www.art-money.org It’s a fantastic concept whereby we artists get to create our own currency, which is spendable for all manner of things, in fact you can spend it anywhere where anyone is willing to accept it! Having started in Denmark, many of the places you can spend your art-money are in northern Europe, but don’t let that discourage you, all art-money artists also accept art-money to pay for other artwork!!! I’ll be opening a gallery soon on this site that will feature my art money, or you can buy some now from the BIAM website. check it out, there are a LOT of very cool artists represented there.

I’ve had a few emails inquiring about shipping artwork overseas . . . I just want to let everyone know that that is NO PROBLEM! I’ve shipped art to New Zealand, Germany and Mexico, all has arrived safely and surprisingly quickly. At this time I am not automatically adding a shipping cost, I am trying to cover that in the pricing. If larger works are to be shipped abroad, we may have to negotiate a small fee to cover the shipping, we can discuss that when you purchase a painting.

All art ships unframed, and is only matted if noted in the description — this keeps the costs low, making the art more affordable to you.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions at paula@zografis.com

“The years, they come and go . . .they’re slippery things.” said my friend Shannon the other day, and that pretty well sums it up . . . after 4 years of artisitic semi-hibernation, I have again made time and space in my life to create things. Some of the results you see here on this website (thank you Elaine for putting up with my stress!).
I hope if you like what you see you will let me know — if you REALLY love it, feel free to take it into your home . . . art loves to find new homes. ;~)