Birthday Cake for Flannery

Celebrating Flannery O’Connor’s 100th birthday.

March 14 - May 9

Spalding Nix Fine Art, Atlanta

My work is sold by Spalding Nix Fine Art in Atlanta, Southside Gallery in Oxford, MS, and Fischer Galleries in Jackson, MS.

Mudlarkings

Radiant Matter

"Blair Hobbs’ Radiant Matter is a suite of memorably archetypal mixed media artworks that arise from her thoughts while undergoing radiation treatments for breast cancer and transmute them into transcendent loveliness.”

Jerry Cullum,  art critic, Arts ATL. 

We’re on the back side of our trip, so it seems appropriate to post our dog butts of Italy portfolio. Each dog butt expresses its own personality. #dogbutts #dogbuttsofitaly #ciao
On the airplane. All it takes is one Lorazepam.
Our last day. Staying a stone’s throw from the Roman Forum with a one-eyed cat and her slinky friend. Already missing some art dogs and glorious strawberries.
This sweet baby turns 24 today!!! Happy Birthday, @jess_edge. We love you so much 💕❤️⭐️💕❤️🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
Thanks @jamiequatro for being so smart and seeing so deep into my work for this @parisreview essay. And thanks @spaldingnixfineart for believing in my work. And happy birthday Flannery! To read the sassy, surf to theparisreview.org
Thank you, @alessandra_monteraponi for the delicious tour today. We learned many things about time, patience, and what cared for land returns to the nurturer. Among the best lessons—dog lovers make the best wines. I love your three-year old fly
Our beautiful little room in Sienna with enormous windows looking out to a sunny Piazza Salimbeni. Stretched out on the bed, I noticed the sculpted men peering in from the building across the street. And since we couldn’t watch the Ole Miss gam
A fine day in Siena. We walked hills and stopped in to visit Saint Catherine’s mummified head and finger (she looks pretty good!) Walked some more until we stopped at a bistro behind the Siena Cathedral where we read and drew. We’ve seen
Had a Negroni with @mochalina_rome and spotted a handsome Pienza dude riding in the way-back.
@banditatuscany is a really good way to spend Marriott points. It’s well appointed and a nice airy place respite between big cities. We’ve driven dirt roads through countrysides, up and down mountains, through olive groves and vineyards.
If your dogs are sensitive to a bazillion miles of walking on cobblestones, these New Balance sneakers are the best. Also the best, a Lurleen door.
A very good day: Saint Teresa, Borghese, Bernini, sunshine, di Chirico, bluebird skies and green parrots, Etna Bianco, Roman artichokes, and Armando El Pantheon.
We’re lucky. The weather in Rome is beautiful. We’ve walked and walked, explored Villa Farnesina, sat prayerfully still in a bunch of churches (love the tornado of angels!), and discovered gardens, courtyards, and shops. I haven’t
Favorites across two days. Especially the Keats-Shelley house and Lord Byron’s carnival mask. The Protestant cemetery is always our first stop to take in altitude and air and beauty. Loved to see the Piazza Navona restoration. And then Ano, our
So happy to have @angiemosier as a super talented baker friend! She designed this delicious cake after the drawing in the Flannery birthday piece. Thank you, everyone, for coming out. It was a grand evening!!!! Happy 100, Flannery!!!! Love you, Angie
We are heading back to Italy next week: Rome, Pienza, Siena, and Florence. We’ve enjoyed a good bit of popular experiences in Rome (one of my favorites is Cimitero Acattolico, the non-Catholic cemetery). Any treasures to visit in any of these