I’m thrilled to say that my year in Paris has led to a whole new passion project: in 2021, I started my own art studio and gallery in Naples, Florida called High Tide Studio and Gallery. The art studio hosts open studios and workshops with nationally known art instructors. In addition, we host evening craft nights with local artists who teach such fun things as pour painting, découpage and paint-and-sips. In addition to the studio side, High Tide represents about a dozen local and regional artists in the gallery. Many of them are instructors at High Tide.

I am a student of every one of my workshops for the past five years, so my painting skills have developed and improved each year. I have welcomed some fabulous instructors over the years, including Nancy Nowak, Manon Sander, Eli Cedrone, Michele Held, Michelle Byrne, Roger Dale Brown and Marjorie Hicks. They have all been wonderful friends and excellent teachers who have guided me on my late-in-life painting journey. Which just goes to show you, you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.

Inspired by my year in France and subsequent visits to Paris, I’ve made numerous oil paintings out of my collection of photographs. I’ll be posting some of them here to share with friends, family and readers of this blog. All images subject to copyright. Permission and sales inquiries: hightidestudio995@gmail.com.

If you care to check out High Tide, you can find us at hightidestudioandgallery.com.

Margie White, Fontaine, Place des Vosges (2016), oil on canvas

Margie White, Fontaine du Cirque, Jardin des Champs-Élysées (2016), oil on canvas

Margie White, Pont Alexandre III (2014), oil on canvas

Margie White, My Paris Apartment (2016), oil on canvas, 24″x 18″

Margie White, Rue Cimarosa (2015), oil on canvas

Margie White, Cézanne’s Door, Aix en Provence (2015), oil on canvas