Category: art
Acorn Woodpeckers… desert to the sea
Back in Santa Barbara after a lovely weekend in the desert for the Homestead Cabin Festival at The Palms. The Sibley’s were great. They played a new song… Shari Elf was jam-packed fun and The Hafler Duo sang their desert songs. Many of us got to create Homestead Cabins out of Graham Crackers and other…
The Road to Wonder Valley
WOW. Thank you to Massif Pictures for a beautiful clip of a beautiful place with so many beautiful people… REALLY… To view the trailer click on the Road to Wonder Valley Trailer. For those who don’t know, I was interviewed last year for a film, about the artists that are living in the high desert….
New Book, Eight Years in Wonder Valley
MagentaRaven is publishing a new book, printed on semi matte paper, entitled 8 Years in Wonder Valley. 38 of the best photographs from eight years of documentation by yours truly, Perry Hoffman Images of wild birds, owls, coyotes, scorpions, snakes and rusty metal… and fire. I have just emailed friends with a special…
Art Cars
Soooo the following day after the big gala at Fi-Lox-See, Bonnie Kopp of True World Gallery in Joshua Tree, brought a fleet of art cars to my abode in Wonder Valley. What a treat !!! I did not get everybody’s names. Kate Pearson was from Bisbee. Joy Johnson from Berkeley (boots on top of car…
Wonder Valley Homestead Cabin Festival
Let me say that I truly do not know where to begin… Shall I just start backtracking… kd lang has created an amazing cd and the more I listen to it the more amazing it becomes. Jazz great,Herbie Hancock just won album of the year at the Grammy’s with his cd River, The Joni Letters. …
kd lang has created another beautiful record
She definitely used the right color on her new cd… Magenta Raven is pleased. And of course the music is divine. Thank you kd !!! I must add that this recording is just getting better and better as I listen to it. It’s blowing my mind. Snip of lyrics from the song Coming Home, “My eyes…
Buddha Heads from the kiln …
Some of the new buddhas are adorned with seashells wild-crafted in Santa Barbara. Available at Santa Barbara Arts on Canon Perdido.
another Mosaic wall in Santa Barbara
My neighbors in Santa Barbara commissioned me to do a mural on their guest room wall. Here it is. Ocean wave, squid, octopus arm, crab… Wave…
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