Saturday, May 31, 2014

Hannah Woodman (UK b. 1968)

Roadside Cottages, Devon Village

Walled Garden, Trevarno (2011-2012)
oil on board.121 x 110 cm

Hannah Woodman is a contemporary British landscape painter. Based in Cornwall, she works from her studio on the South coast and exhibits regularly across the country. She has had a series of sell-out one woman shows and her work is held in public and private collections both at home and abroad.

Fred Cuming


 Thistles

Dungeness from Hythe

Fred Cuming is a Senior Royal Academician and, when elected RA in 1974, was the youngest member to be elected to the Royal Academy of Arts. His artistic career has spanned over sixty years so far, and he has created (and sold) a body of work of some 5,000 paintings. Particularly fascinated by the observation and depiction of light and atmosphere, Fred Cuming is now one of England's foremost and best-loved contemporary landscape painters.

Friday, May 30, 2014

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Rebecca Klementovich


Mount Washington almost at the top, oil on canvas


You know the saying - There comes the gust


Mountain Foothills

Friday, May 23, 2014

American Impressionism: Theodore Earl Butler

Theodore Butler (1861-1936)

Giverny Trees, Wind and Snow (1892-1893)
Provo, Brigham Young University Museum of Art


The Roman Square at Night


Giverny Church, Sunset (1910)


Sunset at Veules-les-Roses, Normandy (1909)

Theodore Earl Butler, (1861–1936) was an American impressionist painter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Paris to study art. He befriended Claude Monet in Giverny, and married his stepdaughter, Suzanne Hoschedé. After her death he married her sister, Marthe Hoschedé. Butler was a founding member of the Society of Independent Artists.

Butler's chosen subjects were domestic scenes of family and friends and the French landscape. Although his Impressionistic approach to painting sometimes reflected the influence of his father-in-law, his work also suggests Post-Impressionist tendencies as well.

Heidi Malott - Autumn Shadows


Autumn Shadows


End of the day





Corre Alice


Seaside

Colette Wirz Nauke


Study Of Flowers

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Keith Haring - Red Dog


Red Dog, 1987

A letter from Keith Haring to an aspiring young artist

Gertrude Fiske

Gertrude Fiske (American, 1878-1961)

Woman and Flowers



Gertrude Fiske took up the painter’s tools at a time when women were becoming more active in the public sphere of American life. Although still the minority, Fiske and other Boston women participated in the Museum of Fine Art’s school, which set forth a strict curriculum spanning seven years. Here, Fiske enjoyed the mentorship of artists such as Edmund Tarbell, a member of the American Impressionist group called “The Ten,” as well as Frank Benson. Between the years 1904 and 1912, Fiske also studied with Charles Woodbury at the seaside village of Ogunquit, ME; this locale served as inspiration for many of Fiske’s brightly colored beach compositions. 
Due to her artistic talents, Fiske was a major figure of the Boston School and also a member of women artists known as “The Pine Hill Girls.” Today her works are featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fiske and her woman compatriots were recently the subject of an exhibition titled “A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940.”