I recently received my first new bike since the fourth grade, as a sweet housewarming gift from my husband. Moving back to the US has been a bit of an adjustment for me, however, I have been looking forward to the ability to have a bicycle. We live near Grand Forks downtown, as well as near the Greenway park. For my artist’s date, I simply went on a beautiful bike ride along the river. As the evening approached the weather became more overcast, which was ideal since it has been crazy-hot lately.
I have always loved the water. I am not sure why. I feel like it is something innately in me, that I perhaps I have inherited from my mother? I still miss seeing the Atlantic Ocean every day. However, the river does slightly help to ease my water-missing-melancholy.
I had forgotten how much I enjoy riding a bike and I am loving the downtown/riverside portion of Grand Forks.
The Greenway entrance near my house.Greenway ParkGreenway ParkGreenway Park
Carly Swenson is an intuitive painter originally from northern Montana. She spent more than a decade working primarily as a mixed media artist before shifting to acrylics. Swenson received a BFA in Visual Arts with an Art History Minor from Bemidji State University. During and after university, she traveled and lived abroad, this included studying in China, traveling throughout Europe and living both in England and the Azores.Swenson’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and internationally. Her freelance writing and mixed media journals have been published in nationally distributed art magazines. She has facilitated art workshops for various age groups. Swenson’s work is also included in the permanent art collections of Angra do Heroismo Museum and Bemidji State University (Bemidji, MN). Currently, she lives in St. Paul, MN with a smart little dog and a weird little cat. They’re nice.
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4 Replies to “artist’s way II: week three artist date”
Hey! My artist date last week was a bike ride as well on my sweet purple bike I got when I was 11. :) And I wrapped it up sitting under a big tree next to the Yellowstone. Ah, there is nothing like a bike.
Carly Swenson • Intuitive Artist 
Careful, you. That river is ragey and red! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Red_River_Flood
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I know, right?!
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Hey! My artist date last week was a bike ride as well on my sweet purple bike I got when I was 11. :) And I wrapped it up sitting under a big tree next to the Yellowstone. Ah, there is nothing like a bike.
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Next to Yellowstone? You remind me of MT and that makes my art ache a little (in a good way).
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