I couldn’t be more excited and thrilled to announce that my painting “Morning Skulk” has been selected as one of 36 works to be exhibited at The New York Coffee Festival 2015. If you’re in NYC Sept 25-27, stop on by, have a cup of joe or an espresso martini and check out my painting in person! Yay me!
My submission had to of course have a coffee theme. So I decided to depict my relationship with coffee… My morning routine. I’m up before the crack of dawn. Groggy-eyed, I wake the kids and skulk into the kitchen to start the coffee. My first cup is downed in a frenzy. Make breakfast, nudge my husband and wake my daughter for a second time. My dutiful son is already in the shower. Locate and iron their school clothes for the day, make their lunches. Wake my daughter a third time. Bark orders: Eat your fruit; Don’t forget your homework; Please stop arguing; Don’t forget you have hockey today. I fill my husbands go cup, kiss them and rush them out the door. My coffee cup is empty but I don’t remember drinking it. In the now peaceful house I pour my second cup. This is the one I savor. A minute to myself before I start my day.
The Coffee Art Project supports Project Waterfall, which is committed to bringing clean water to communities which grow our coffee through the Allegra Foundation and other registered charities. So far, Project Waterfall, has raised more than $439,000 and delivered clean water to over 11,000 people in Tanzania, Rwanda and Ethiopia in partnership with WaterAid and Charity: Water.
