Interiors. I know I keep mentioning them (hint hint to all you artists out there!)… I love them and paintings of interiors are not easy to find. When you do find an artist it seems like all their interiors are sold… it’s crazy! Of course it can’t be any interior, the painting has to depict great detail (for me, without being too tight), sunshine/light and shadows. It has to be interesting… and Cecilia’s are!

Read a blip about Cecilia from her website, and while you’re there check out her lovely paintings!!

CECILIA ROSSLEE grew up in South Africa and has recently moved to Carmel, California where she lives with her husband and three children.  Her work reflects the people and objects she loves.

After graduating with a National Diploma in Fine Art, Cecilia moved to Cape Town where she started a prolific career in art.  Some of her clients include Planet Hollywood and Sun International Hotels.

In 2000 she formed a publishing company with her husband which supplied a large range of stationery, depicting her art work.  She supplied a major, upscale retail chain store, Woolworths, for 9 years.

Since living in Carmel, CA, Cecilia focuses mainly on her beautiful oil painting.  Her work is in great demand as she depicts happy, warm images that are dear to her.

Image via CeciliaRosslee.com – used with the artists permission.

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O n e  Y e a r  A g o:                Charleston, SC – #1 Tourist Destination IN THE WORLD!

T w o  Y e a r s  A g o:             Featured Artist… Charles Movalli!

T h r e e  Y e a r s  A g o:        Antica Farmacista – Magnolia, Orchid & Mimosa – nothing better!

 

Fabulous painting, isn’t it? I love paintings of everyday people doing everyday things… it makes it so interesting. This pastel painting “Window” is featured in the Artist’s Magazine Competition Spotlight, May issue, 2014. I like how you get a glimpse into this persons life… a bit of their kitchen, their window washing, the outside. I love the concentration in the woman’s face. The movement is spectacular! Great painting Sally!

Sally’s work is so wonderful, she would be a great one to take a workshop with! Lucky you… Sally teaches workshops, check out the link to see when/where!

Read a blip about Sally from her website:

“I am captivated by light, and my interest in light is on equal terms with the content of a painting.” Strand pulls the extraordinary out of the ordinary through the use of light and color. Assembling multi-layered surfaces in a rich complexity of form and color, her paintings appear to emanate light from within.

A native of Colorado now residing in California, Strand has been exhibiting professionally as an artist for over 30 years. Influenced early in life by an artistic mother and a heritage of artistic relatives, her childhood was a creative mix ranging from art projects to professional puppet shows.

As a result of extensive travels while a young adult, Strand recognized a need to portray her view of the world through art. Her subjects became the familiar people and objects she carefully observed in the business of living – a man reading a morning newspaper; light falling across a bowl of eggs; groups of people waiting, working, playing – slices of life.

Strand was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007, the highest commendation of the Pastel Society of America, NY. She is the recipient of numerous top awards, including the PSA Master Pastelist distinction, and most recently the IAPS Master Circle Honor. Her solo exhibitions in galleries and museums include a 2006 one-person retrospective of pastel and oil paintings at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California.

Widely published in books and magazines internationally, her work is also represented in many corporate and private collections. Strand studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design in New York. She earned a BFA degree from the University of Denver. Strand teaches workshops and master classes around the country.

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O n e  Y e a r  A g o:              The Heavenly Scent of Wisteria!

T w o  Y e a r s  A g o:          Featured Artist… Adele Earnshaw!

T h r e e  Y e a r s  A g o:     Renoir Quote

How magical is this? The way Haley’s paintings include her as a self portrait in a heroin type way is so clever. These paintings have such life. You could look at this painting for a long time and still see new things that you didn’t catch on a previous glimpse. Brilliant. And… this is only one of many! Be sure to check out Haley’s work!

There was a great article that The Morning News did, where Karolle Rabarison interviewed Haley… read it HERE… it makes me like this artist even more! This also shows some of her paintings…

Read a blip about Haley from her website:

The self-portrait confronts the viewer with an outward representation of the inner self. Here is the exterior as seen by the interior.

The self-portrait as a character introduces a further element. While the self-portrait implies that the artist is showing us the truth, a representation of the exterior in disguise conveys the impossibility and doubleness of this endeavor.

Through the seemingly private world of self-portraiture and autobiographical narrative, I hope to present a compelling fictive world, without dictating a precise narrative or relying on a static symbolism. I try to invest the figure with an iconic confrontability – making it operate both as self-portrait and archetypal heroine. 

Painting impels me to cross the border freely between the universe of things and the universe of the imagination. The former involves an urgent encounter between the eye and the exterior world, while the latter contains the interior universe of memory, history, narrative, and desire. 

Check out Haley’s paintings… they are magical! Catch you back here tomorrow!

All images via HaleyHasler.com – with permission from the artist.

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O n e  Y e a r  A g o:              Charleston Dogwood Blooms

T w o  Y e a r s  A g o:          Fleet Landing Restaurant, Charleston, SC

T h r e e  Y e a r s  A g o:     Artist to watch… David Lussier!

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S T U N N I N G ! ! R i g h t ? ? Aline Ordman’s work is the crème de la crème!

I could feel my eyes bug out when I saw this image on Facebook… It is so fabulous in every single way. MORE INTERIORS… PLEASE!

That fabulous red chair just catches your eye, the play of light on the rug and on the yellow chair nearby… brilliant! Just look how loosely this is painted. Stunning!

I just love that little blip of orangey red on the building. The shadows, the light, those fabulous strokes and variations in color. Wow!

This painting was a Finalist in the 30th Annual American Artist Contest – love it!

Read a blip about Aline from her website:

Aline received her BFA at Cornell University, and continued her training at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, earning a degree in Illustration.

“My goal as an artist is to find those times and places where beauty is not only evident, but startling and suddenly present.”

Aline is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America and a signature member of the American Impressionist Society.  She was featured in an article in the February issue of the Pastel Journal and she  has been honored with awards at the 33rd and 34th  and 38th Annual Juried Shows of the Pastel Society of America in New York City.  In April 2010, she  received First Place in the figure category and third place in the landscape category of the April 2010 Top 100 Pastels issue of the Pastel Journal.   Her work has been accepted in  national juried shows of the American Impressionist Society, The Pastel Society of America  and the Oil Painters of America.  Aline teaches workshops throughout the country and in Europe. She is represented by Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, Maine; Blue Heron Gallery in Wellfleet, MA;  Banks Gallery in New London, NH, Little Gallery in Mackinac, MI and West Branch Gallery in Stowe, VT.  Her website is www.alineordman.com and she maintains a blog at http://alineordmanartwork.blogspot.com/

If you’re an artist, be sure to check out Aline’s workshops!

NOTE: Aline will be teaching a workshop here in Charleston, SC – March 2015 – so be sure to check it out!

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