Awakening

We have just returned from an absolutely amazing vacation in San Diego California where we experienced the intense beauty of the coast and met some very interesting and enlightening people.

While exploring Little Italy one evening, a group of windows on the upper floor of a building caught my eye. I said to Vince, either some one as some really beautiful art in their living room or that’s an art gallery up there. It was down the street a ways and on the other side of the street but we eventually made our way around to that side. Upon passing the stairway leading up to that group of windows, we realized that it was indeed a gallery. We debated. Food or Art? Art won and we wandered up the stairs to be welcomed by some amazing, colorful, beautiful work by an artist named Grant Pecoff.

We did eventually end up getting some good food there in Little Italy but not until after we had spent some time with the art work and the artist. We met Grant and his wife Layne, who is also an artist though her art is through her writing and not with a brush. The concept of the art that is being shown is one of awakening and becoming aware of your surroundings, of becoming really alive and appreciating the world around you. The colors are amazing. You are brought into the painting like you are there but experiencing your surroundings with different eyes. I guess they are Grant’s eyes that you are experiencing it through, but for me, the art made me feel like they were my eyes just seeing things from a different perspective. There is a sense of positive forces working and a sense of hope.


We’d like to invite our readers to check out Grant and Layne Pecoff’s art on their website: http://www.pecoff.com/

Or if you are in the San Diego area you can visit their gallery at:
1825 India St
San Diego, CA 92101
Ph: 619-231-1991

Click here to see a list of other galleries where Grant Pecoff’s work is available. Click on the photos within this post to view some of Grant’s work online. Also, don’t forget to check out the books that are available (Written by Layne and illustrated by Grant).

Thanks for stopping by!

Chrissie & Vince






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