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Open Studio, May 9-10, 2024

by | Apr 24, 2024

Pastel painting of dramatic storm clouds in off-white, russet-red and dark blue. The sun disc peeks through at the center.

Art Opening

I’m having my first open studio! Please save the dates:

  • Thursday, May 9, 11am–6pm
  • Friday, May 10, 4pm–9pm

I will be offering original paintings, as well as limited edition prints of photographs and artworks.

Photograph of rounded, rocky mountain peak, jutting out from behind the barren slope of another mountain. A blue-gray cloud rises between the mountains. One side of the peak is lit by the late afternoon sun. From the other side streams a dense flow of clouds, tinted a fiery orange.
Red Head
Photograph of at least five layers of mountains in a blue haze (increasingly lighter with distance), under a soft yellow sky.
Dolomites Blue & Gold
Photograph of a mountainous landscape, warmly lit by a late-afternoon sun, with a central off-white slope and peak shaped somewhat like a breast and nipple. (“Cone” doesn’t suffice. 😊) On the slopes is a rust-colored ground cover, and the mountain is backed by higher, rougher peaks.
The Yellow Mountain
Pastel painting of six green apples, on a dark patterned cloth, two of them blushing with tinges of red.
Green Apples
Pastel painting of a bridge with three arches, over a wide creek. A tree is to the left and a hill in the background.
Burnside Bridge, Antietam

Wine Festival

My event coincides with the Wollmesheimer Weinvielfalt. Eight wineries in our village will be open (six on our street), 150 wines will be served, as well as other food and drink.

There will be free wine tasting stations between the hours listed (€5 wine glass deposit), but the event will go later in the evenings.

Come, try some wines, and see my latest work. I hope you can join us!

Location

Marlene Breitenstein Atelier
Wollmesheimer Hauptstr. 54
76829 Landau

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Where Am I?

Sometimes in the Washington, DC area.
Sometimes I’m traveling elsewhere.

Otherwise I’m near Landau in der Pfalz, in the Südliche Weinstrasse (Southern Wine Route) region of Germany, characterized by endless vineyards, and bordered by mountains covered with fairy-tale forests. France is 25 minutes away.