The Saluda Arts Festival is today, May 17, 2025 from 10AM – 4PM. If you’re in the Saluda, North Carolina area, what a great event to pop in to! I love their colorful signs. I took this photo last time we were in the mountains and saved it to post today. We love Saluda, such a wonderful town! Cute shops, wonderful places to eat and such nice people.
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OCTOBER 22 – 26, 2014 NEWNAN, GA WORKSHOP WITH KEN DEWAARD AND GREG LAROCK!
Do you see what I see? A workshop by two amazing artists… a 2 FOR 1 workshop! Ken DeWaard and Greg LaRock – If you’re going to be anywhere near the Newnan, GA area, I wouldn’t miss this for the world. Two highly respected, award winning artists who will guide you through learning how to to take your paintings to the next level. I love how they’re starting this workshop with a meet and greet dinner, so that participants have a chance to get to know each other, as well as Ken and Greg – this is where the information gathering will take place! Key to a good workshop!
I would love to see the side by side demo by Ken and Greg of the same subject matter. I think it’s so interesting how artists all see things a bit differently, that makes it so interesting! I have not personally met Greg, yet… but I do know Ken, and he is as nice as they come. Full of information that he is more than willing to share. This will be an informative, enlightening and fun workshop!
I envy those of you who are able to sign up for this workshop! If you’re thinking about it… don’t hesitate, space is limited and October will be here before you know it!
If interested contact Millie Gosch: EMAIL: milliegosch@gmail.com or call 770.301.0674
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This is the fourth year that Randy Higbee is hosting a Six Inch Squared show at the Randy Higbee Gallery in Costa Mesa, CA. The opening reception is tomorrow, December 7th, from 6-9PM. Not in Costa Mesa? It’s OK! You can still see the show as well as purchase online! And… you don’t even have to wait until tomorrow! See/Shop the 6 Inch Squared show today! There are thousand artists submit their paintings to be accepted into this show each year. There are many great paintings… at great prices… in beautiful frames (for those of you who aren’t familiar with Randy Higbee, he owns KING OF FRAME. Great frames, great prices! If you’re looking for a frame, check them out!
I look forward to checking out Randy’s gallery on year… 23,000 square feet of art, framing and just jaw dropping beauty!
You see how much work goes into hanging a show like this? There are over 600 paintings in this show! The show runs through DECEMBER 23, 2013. Hey, makes good Christmas gifts!
Here is a photo right before the show was hung… Whew, can you imaging? You see the end result above. What an exciting show! Check out the work…
F L A S H B A C K
O N E Y E A R A G O… 15 Bean Soup Recipe!
T W O Y E A R S A G O… Fabulous Cuisinart Roasting Pan!
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All Images via RandyHigbeeGallery.com
Plein Air Painters of the Southeast (PAPSE) is a great group of artists that paint “plein air” (painting outdoors). Their work is nothing short of amazing. They have to be quick to catch the light, but each is so talented in their own way. If you are in the Charleston, SC area, you are in for a treat. The Wet Paint Exhibit & Reception Opens – November 8 (TONIGHT!), 2013 from 6 pm – 8 pm at 3 Galleries in Charleston, SC – Can you imagine? Nearly 30 artists paint their hearts out for days in a row in Charleston, then tonight the show appears in three separate galleries… Coco Vivo Fine Art, Edward Dare Gallery and Galerie on Broad – you must check it out! Take a peak at the list of artists in each gallery. I am looking so forward to this!
The exhibit runs through November 16, 2013 – so catch it if you can!
Images via Plein Air Painters of the Southeast Facebook
Just a few examples…
Hope to see you there – catch you back here tomorrow!
O N E Y E A R A G O… Featured Artist… Mark Dalessio!
T W O Y E A R S A G O… A nice bowl of comfort food – Cooking Lights Baked Potato Soup!
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This painting has such a nice autumn feel to it. I feel like I could be driving down this road on the way to the cider mill to get some wonderful crisp apples, a glass of cider and one of those wonderful little cinnamon sugar doughnuts to go with it. All that happiness squeezed in to this painting and no calories! I could look at this painting all day… the wonderful warm colors, the shadow and light, the distance that you feel… nice! This painting is at ART ON THE BOULEVARD in downtown Vancouver, WA. There is a first Friday reception November 1, 2013 from 5-9PM. If you’re in the area check it out, otherwise check out Romona’s website!
Read a blip about Romona from her website:
Romona likes to trick the eye, using muted colors and blurred contours painted as softly as a whisper. But in reality her canvasses are a war zone and her weapons of choice-sand paper, ends of brushes, rags and anything unconventional she can employ in battle. She knows the skirmish is over when the painting has the power to speak directly to the viewer. When an onlooker can not resist stepping into her world full of atmosphere, mystery and a mood that takes you back to days gone by, she knows the battle has been won.
Her studio is tucked away in the lush Red Hills of Dundee Oregon, overlooking flourishing vineyards and breathtaking landscapes. Much of her inspiration comes from her surroundings-be it a weathered farmhouse, an ancient alder standing alone in resplendent autumn hues, or a muted meadow that pulls one’s thoughts to a conscious digression.
Self taught with nature as her classroom and the great masters her teachers, she knew at age four that painting would be her calling. Today you’ll find her paintings as far away as Germany, London and downtown Manhattan. Her works have been published in the premier art magazines including Southwest Art, American Art Collector and Art Talk.
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O N E Y E A R A G O… Superstorm Sandy, what a fright!
T W O Y E A R S A G O… Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA!
If you are in the Laguna Beach area, this is an event not to be missed! Do you realize how many fabulous artists are going to be in one place painting their hearts out? Lots… this is the LIST OF ARTISTS, and it’s a doozy!
Click here to buy your tickets (for lectures and collector’s party) – I saw some great photo’s on Ken DeWaard’s website, paintings from last year at Laguna as well as images of artist painting, it’ll give you a feel for how fabulous this event is!
Read a little blip from the Laguna Plein Air website:
Each year Laguna Beach, a famous seaside community and historic artist colony, turns into an outdoor studio with the always-exciting Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational. This event showcases the nation’s top plein air landscape painters who compete for prestigious prizes and participate in the week-long festivities including public paint outs, environmental awareness activities, and educational events. Culminating with the highly anticipated Collectors’ Party and Public Sale. Proceeds from this event will benefit Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art organization.
This year the Invitational will be held at the Aliso Creek Inn in the majestic Aliso Canyon – The “Yosemite” of Laguna Beach and the location of the area’s original homestead built by the Thurston family, the ancestors of current Laguna Mayor Kelly Boyd. This event celebrates the artistic legacy of Laguna Beach.
IMAGE VIA LAGUNAPLEINAIR.COM
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O N E Y E A R A G O… To do in Charleston… CHARLESTON TEA PLANTATION!
T W O Y E A R S A G O… Artist to watch… Tom Curry!
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You can spot a piece of Henry Isaacs work a long distance away. With all the fabulous artists in the world its pretty cool when an artist develops a style that’s quite different and recognizable. Henry has done just that! Isn’t this piece wonderful? Henry has an amazing website, take the time to check it out!
Gleason Fine Art has an opening reception this evening from 5-8PM featuring Henry’s new work. If you’re in the Portland, Maine area stop in and check it out. If you’re no where near Portland… check it out via their website! Henry Isaacs exhibit runs through November 30, 2013, catch it if you can! This is going to be an amazing show!
Read a bit about Henry from the Gleason Fine Art website:
Cranberry Island artist Henry Isaacs paints with energy, passion, and self-assurance. His style—broken brushwork and a palette of delicate blues, greens, pinks, and yellows—marks him as one of the most recognizable artists painting in Maine today. In person, Isaacs is as engaging an individual as you will ever meet. He is both worldly and down to earth, both witty and self-effacing, generous with his time, and passionate about the dangers of the art world’s becoming overly commercialized.
Isaacs and his wife Donna live in the village of Islesford on Little Cranberry Island, a small island located near the larger island of Mount Desert. But island living in no way inhibits Isaacs from going wherever he’s asked to paint. Recently, this was a commission to paint on the grounds of a large Namibian estate in southern Africa. “New Work” is Isaacs’ first one-person show in Portland, and for this special occasion, he has presented the gallery with nearly 20 paintings, some of very large in scale.
Isaacs has had a varied and impressive education, including the Slade School of Art in London, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Putney School in Vermont. Isaacs’ teaching career is even more impressive and varied, with stints teaching anatomical drawing at Dartmouth, drawing and painting at the Massachusetts College of Art, and drawing at several European colleges.
Freelance writer, and Portland Newspapers arts reviewer, Dan Kany uses high praise to describe Isaacs’ technique: “Isaacs’ approach to color is based in balancing warm and cool tones. He does this brilliantly with his ubiquitous whites and neutrals, and with his brighter colors as well. Like the French Impressionists, he doesn’t use black. [Isaacs’] handling of paint owes an unapologetic debt to the chunky boldness of the early 20thcentury Modernists and Fauves. The brushwork is strong, but primarily dedicated to the job of pushing paint around the canvas—an activity Isaacs clearly enjoys.”
“Henry Isaacs: New Work” opens October 4 and runs through November 30. Please join us Friday, October 4, from 5 to 8 pm to meet Henry Isaacs. For more information, call the gallery at 207-699-5599, email us at info@gleasonfineart.com, or check out our website gleasonfineart.com. Gleason Fine Art, Portland, is located at 545 Congress Street. Gallery hours are Wednesday – Friday, 11 am–6 pm; Saturday, 11 am–5 pm.
Image: GleasonFineArt.com
F L A S H B A C K
O N E Y E A R A G O… 39 Rue de Jean, a fabulous Charleston restaurant!
T W O Y E A R S A G O… Artist to watch… Betty Anglin Smith! October Skies Show (2011)
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[image: DowlingWalsh.com]
How creative is this painting? You see the angel… and the apple… the fabulous trees, the moonlit water, the rocky coast… what’s not to love about this?
Read a blip about Ann from the Dowling Walsh website:
Ann Getsinger grew up in Watertown, Connecticut, studied in San Francisco and has spent most of her life either in the Berkshire Hills of far western Massachusetts or in coastal Maine.
The youngest of five in a creative household, as a child she often spent time either at the dairy farm next door or in the surrounding woods where natures creativity influenced her powerfully. After attending Paier School of art in New Haven, CT, and the San Francisco Art Institute, she settled permanently in western Massachusetts where she studied with realist artist Sheldon Fink.
The coast of Maine has been a lifelong love beginning with family vacations as a child and now continuing in her family’s home near Port Clyde. The experiences of sea and shore, along with views of Mosquito Island and Head , have been incorporated into Ann’s work countless times in all weather, seasons and circumstances. From the age of twelve, exposure to the artwork seen in the nearby Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine, especially the work of the Wyeth family, has been pivotal.
The artists’ home and studio, since 1988, is in the rural Berkshire town of New Marlborough, Massachusetts. Ann’s oil paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries and hang in hundreds of homes.
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O N E Y E A R A G O… Photo: Monhegan Boat Line – Laura B!
T W O Y E A R S A G O… Artist to watch… Eric Hopkins!
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Three examples of art you can see tonight… realistic, abstract and something in between… It should be a great night for an art walk… hope to see you there!
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O N E Y E A R A G O… Coffee Shops… as American as apple pie! FUEL AMERICA!
T W O Y E A R S A G O… Artist to watch… Peter Kalil!
The Sylvan Gallery on King Street in Charleston, SC is having a Paris Preview with artist Rhett Thurman. If you’re in the area you won’t want to miss this!
Visit Rhett in her studio tonight (September 5, 2013) at 241 King Street from 5 – 6PM for a preview and sale of her latest work… and then…
Meet at the Sylvan Gallery at 171 King Street for a reception, preview and sale from 6 – 8 PM!
It’s always nice to see where artists paint, what their space is like… and of course to see Rhett’s new work!
If you aren’t in the area… check out Rhett’s older work as well!
I t ‘ s S T U N N I N G !
From her trip to Monhegan…
as well as her Charleston paintings!
Catch you back here tomorrow!
F L A S H B A C K
O N E Y E A R A G O… Charleston Restaurant Week September 5-16, 2012!
T W O Y E A R S A G O… Husk Restaurant in Charleston, SC is the top new restaurant in AMERICA!
All images via TheSylvanGallery.com!
Robert Abele is having a one man show at Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA tonight! If you’re in the area… don’t miss it!
TONIGHT, August 31, 2013 from 5:30 – Click HERE for a preview of the shows paintings!
From Addison Art Gallery website / Facebook:
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Image via AddisonArt.com
Can you imagine how wonderful these two old homes must have been at one point in their lives? Kate captured the character of these buildings and you see how sweet they were at one time. A long time ago, no doubt!
Kate will be participating in the Maynard Dixon Country August 23-25, 2013, read about it from the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts website. This sounds like one fantastic event. There are so many fabulous artists participating, you have to check out their website:
One Ticket Grants Admission to All Events:
Read a blip about Kate from her website:
Kate Starling is an oil painter who lives and works in the canyons of southern Utah. Educated in geology, she spent years working outside as a geologist and National Park ranger. After formal academic art training in the 1980’s she devoted her work to painting the landscape. Schooled in the importance of direct painting from life she has spent years painting outside, learning the way light plays on the land. Now she splits her time between the roadways and trails surrounding her home and the studio.
Starling’s paintings portray the natural world and focus on communicating a sense of place, atmosphere and light, retaining the immediacy of the painting experience. She knows the strength of emotion that the landscape seen in a particular light can trigger in her – she strives to paint in such a way that memory and emotion are triggered in the people who see her work.
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My post from one year ago… I bought my shoes at the grocery store!
My post from two years ago… Artist to watch… Dee Beard Dean!
Washer Woman by Susan Gilbert
I love this piece by Susan Gilbert. The rich, warm colors, the pounding surf, the splash of the wave in the distance… and oh, how the toned canvas shows through. Remarkable. Susan lives on Monhegan Island, ME. Her work is featured at the Island Inn this year… be sure to check it out!
Susan’s work is shown at the Lupine Gallery on Monhegan Island. This is the neatest gallery. I just love the atmosphere, the art (obviously), and the people. Everything about it makes it one fabulous gallery. Susan’s opening reception is today from 2-4, so if you happen to be on the island, don’t miss it!
Read a blip about Susan’s philosophy from her website:
Heard on the Elizabeth Ann, ferry to Monhegan, Maine:
“One kind of work describes its object and is about the object. The other work is about art.” “There is nothing wrong with illustration, but it should be acknowledged, that is what it is.”
What do I believe? All art work is about art. All people see and respond to the world in an unique way. Art is the product of a true eye, a personal vision which one may or may not have the privilege to uncover. The truth of art will be revealed when given the chance to become itself through time and work.
Alex Katz, visiting lecturer to my school in the early 70’s, showed his recent work, cutouts- wooden silhouettes of figures with his characteristic, flat , simple delineation. He described that work as seen with “quick light,” and explained that he meant the impact to be gotten immediately, all at once. I compare this to the to the painting of Vermeer, timeless, still, yet endlessly unfolding,to my vision seen in the slowest light.
Broad categories are used to organize art, and to try to understand it. Context, history surround us. The frame of reference can be daunting. Where in this sea of time do I belong? To work, to search, to find my vision knowing that truth in art can only become itself through time and work.
The artist who continues to open may interpret vision. Like DNA, art which becomes signature expression is predetermined. Style is secondary to vision. Incorporating much or little of history, art is narrative, figurative or abstract, minimal or baroque, technological, conceptual. With quick or slow light, art is always about itself.
So, art may be about describing a harbour, may be about color and pattern, may tell a story, or not. Art can be almost anything. How to organize art is personal. I choose not to draw a line. Why subvert my need to be surprised by the unexpected, to be enlightened, refreshed. When viewing art I ask, does the color sing? does the paint move me? does this work have a life? can I return to it? will it be thrown away? Is this rich, true, right? Art is.
Catch you back here tomorrow!
Image Credits: SusanGilbert.com
Burton’s Cottage by Kevin Beers
Kevin Beers. Master of painting all things Monhegan. Kevin’s paintings truly make you feel as if you are walking down the road on the island you have grown to love. Every detail is present.
It was always fun watching Kevin walking down the road with his biggee size canvas, setting up to start back where he left off the day before. Exact same time and place, so that the lighting is the same. As you’ll read below, Kevin met his wife (and fellow artist) Amy on Monhegan and they married there a few years later. Very cool story!
Kevin is probably most known for his Monhegan lighthouse scenes, which are incredible, but here is another favorite, and one that will instantly resonate with you if you’ve ever been to Monhegan!
Wharf with Trucks by Kevin Beers
When you arrive on the island, the boat drops you at the wharf. There you’ll see the trucks waiting to take your bags to various hotels or homes. There’s always a lot of action down on the wharf and its a great place to hang out, just stay out of the way!
Here’s are the details about Kevin’s show from Gleason Fine Art gallery:
KEVIN BEERS: Monhegan Island
Oils of Monhegan Island
Reception: Friday, July 5, 2013, 5-7 PM
Artist Talk: Kevin Beers, Thursday, July 11, 4-5:30
I found some information about the show in the Wiscasset Newspaper:
Beginning Thursday, June 20, landscape painter Kevin Beers joins ceramicist Tim Christensen for two new shows at Gleason Fine Art’s Boothbay Harbor gallery. For Beers, this will be his 12th solo show at the Gleason gallery, and for Christensen, his second solo show in Boothbay Harbor. A public reception for both artists will be held at the Townsend Avenue gallery from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, July 5.
Each summer, Brooklyn resident Kevin Beers returns to the rock-bound island of Monhegan to paint for five months. Monhegan has come to mean a lot to Beers. It is where Beers transformed a passion for painting into his life’s work. It is also where Beers met his wife, Amy Raye, who, in a scene right out of a Hepburn and Tracy romantic comedy, literally ran into Beers while admiring a magazine article about Beers painting on Monhegan. Fittingly, Beers and Raye married on their island a couple summers after their serendipitous meeting.
To his many collectors, a Beers painting represents everything they love about Maine: intense blue seas and skies, puffy white clouds and sunlight dancing off neat clapboard houses. To Beers himself, “Monhegan is a dazzling place with incredible, beautiful light. I love to paint the buildings on the island – the color and structure of weathered buildings, the patterns of sunlight and shadow, and the sharp contrast between a red roof, white clapboards, and bright blue sky.” [Read more HERE]
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Image Credits: GleasonFineArt.com
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