Give the Gift of Art!

We hope you are having a wonderful Holiday Season. Please consider buying art from Kansas artists for the people on your gift list this year.

A variety of options are available that will fit nearly every budget. We have included in this email, some items to spark your creative gift giving juices. To see more of what we have to offer from Kansas Artists please visit our website. Or, take a little time out of your busy schedule to visit our gallery and talk with our friendly, professional staff who will help you with choosing a gift that's just right for that special someone on your list.

Reminder: If you need something framed in time for your holiday celebrations, we can do it! Most framing projects take just seven days. And, check out our Early Bird Framing Discount: Bring in your artwork to be framed on or before Saturday, December 14, 2010, and you'll qualify for a 10% Discount! This discount is good for framing anything including: photographs, original art, prints, posters, memorabilia, and more!

New! Kansas 150 Ornament & Postcard Gift Set
This set, exclusively available at SouthWind Gallery, is a great way to celebrate Kansas' 150th Birthday and the perfect stocking suffer!
Our Price: $10.00
List Price: $17.50
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Magnetic Frames
The Original MagnaFrame
"The Adjustable Picture Frame" use the four magnets to place your photo anywhere on the frame! The MagnaFrame stands with an easel back. Hurry in to choose from many designs available in the shop at Framewoods.
Our Price: $16.25





Note Cards with
Kansas Artist's Work
• Judith Mackey
• Stan Herd
• Lois Kruse
• Brian Andreas
• Sharon Astle
• Jonathan Knight
• Marty Ferguson
It is worth the trip to see them all in person to make your selection at the gallery.
Our Price: $4.00 - $20.00

Two CD's by Topeka artist Cally Krallman
Little Did You Know - Cally goes retro' on her newest CD. This is a bluesy, jazzy, 1940s sound that is smokin' hot!

Prairie Glimpses - Original Kansas Music that blends bluegrass, country and folk styles for a truly unique sound!
Our Price: $15.00 ea.
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Personalized Name Mats
Commemorate an event, honor a relationship or remember the days gone by with this unique and personalized name mat perfect to display your favorite photos of your loved ones.
Each letter is a photo opening approximately 3.25" x 3.25" which will comfortably accommodate a 3.5" x 3.5" or larger photograph.
Our Price: $15.00 for 8 or less letters
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Story People© by Brian Andreas 
Choose from an assortment of StoryPeople© books by Brian Andreas
A delightful collection of books that invite you to "Come on in & imagine the world with artist & storyteller Brian Andreas"
Our Price: $20.00
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Flyover People by Cheryl Unruh
This book is a compilation of her award winning column by the same name in The Emporia Gazette which is a delightful read by a fantastic writer. Her love for the state in which she lives shines through every page.
Our Price: $15.00
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A Spring Day on the Hill Art of the KU Campus
SouthWind Gallery and the KU Alumni Association offers a beautiful coffee table art book featuring 87 paintings from the plein air art event at KU. Includes a narrative about each of the artists.
Our Price: $35.00
List Price: $45.00
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Get Half Off a $50 Gift Certificate!

Now through December 24, 2010, you can purchase a gift certificate worth $50 and you'll pay just $25. In other words, you're getting a 50% discount on your purchase! That's an offer you can't afford to pass up!Order Online >>

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Holiday Store Hours: December 24 - We will close at 3:00 p.m.,December 25 - Closed, December 31- We will close at 3:00 p.m., January 1, 2011 - Closed.

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Hard-to-find Vintage Prints Available

Just in time for Christmas, a little piece of history to add to the nostalgia of the season. We have found a small collection of prints from the Kansas Prairie Print Makers group that flourished in the 1930s, along with prints from one of their contemporaries and from one of their forbearers.

The Kansas-based Prairie Print Makers group formed on December 28, 1930, in the Lindsborg, Kansas, studio of Swedish-born Birger Sandzen. Instead of portraying the mythical Midwest, the Prairie Print Makers show us an un-nostalgic view of everyday life.

The group eventually had more than 100 members throughout North America. Many members were professional artists, such as Charles B. Rogers (“Edge of the Field” left top), an instructor at Bethany College in Lindsborg and William Dickerson (“Country Grain Elevator” left second), Director of the Wichita Art Association.

Print Making Background in the US

Print Making Background in the US

In 1910 The Chicago Society of Etchers, (Charles B. Keeler “Ronda, the Impregnable” third left) was the first American printing group to begin issuing editions of prints, and Percival Rosseau (“Partners” bottom), best known for his hunting dong portraiture, lived just a generation before the Prairie Print Makers. In the United States, prints have long been considered to be an ideal art form because of their affordability. So please stop in to see us and all of the available work here in the gallery.

 

"Prints are intimate things and are meant to be handled and examined at close range, as is a rare book, a choice gem or a bit of old lace." --Coy Avon Seward Community Arts and Crafts Monthly - 1929

In addition to the lithographs mentioned above, we have more prints and 2 beautiful oil paintings from Charles B. Rogers.

We invite you to stop in to SouthWind Art Gallery to see the beautiful art available. But for your convienance, you can also see all of these pieces mentioned, online on our website at Prairie Print Makers and More.

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. SouthWindArtGallery.com  Holiday Store Hours: December 24 - We will close at 3:00 p.m.,
December 25 - Closed, December 31- We will close at 3:00 p.m., January 1, 2011 - Closed.

 50% off $50 Gift Certificates!

Framewoods of Topeka Gift Certificate Cards make the perfect gift for any occasion!  From today through December 24th, 2010 we are offering $50 Gift certificates for only $50! Gift certificates are good as cash for anything in the store — custom framing, gifts and even artwork at SouthWind Gallery Gift cards may be purchased online or at the store in denominations of $25, $50, $75, or $100.   

Statewide Kansas-150 Art Competition and Call For Entries

SouthWind Gallery is proud to announce the Call for Entries for the Kansas-150 Art Competition.

In 2011, Kansas will celebrate 150 years of statehood. Communities, individuals and state agencies throughout Kansas are planning events to commemorate the 150-year milestone. Through our involvement with Savor Kansas, a new grassroots effort that includes numerous organizations coming together to celebrate and showcase Kansas' arts and culture, SouthWind Gallery has established the Kansas-150 Art Competition. Savor Kansas will take place in Topeka, from June 1, 2011 through June 30, 2011, and will feature events involving visual arts, performing arts and culinary arts.

Kansas-150 Art Competition: Awards & Book Publication

The Kansas-150 Art Competition is a juried competition in which jurors will select 150 works for exhibition and sale by SouthWind Gallery. Three artists will be awarded monetary prizes for their artwork. These awards are:

        1st Place, $1,000
        2nd Place, $750
        3rd Place, $500

In addition, a number of Purchase Awards, funded by corporate and individual patrons, will be given to artists whose works are selected from the 150 entries. SouthWind Gallery will host an awards ceremony and sale of the Top 150 artworks at a Gala in June 2011, and will exhibit the art in its gallery from June 3, 2011-July 15, 2011.

SouthWind Gallery also will publish an art book that showcases all 150 pieces of art, and includes information about each of the artists whose work is selected. This is the second art book published by the gallery. In 2008, SouthWind Gallery, in cooperation with the KU Alumni Association, published “A Spring Day on the Hill: Art Inspired by the University of Kansas, which featured the work of 68 artists. 


The SouthWind Gallery Kansas-150 Art Competition is open to all artists over the age of 18, working in two-dimensional media, who presently reside in, or have previously resided in Kansas, or have ties to the state.

The submitted artwork must draw its inspiration from the state of Kansas. That inspiration may include, but is not limited to depictions of rural landscapes, cityscapes, people, animals, city life, rural life, state landmarks and monuments, state or city parks and recreational areas. Paintings of historical Kansas events and indigenous plant or animal paintings are also acceptable.

We are very excited to also work with two nationally recognized visual art professionals Neil Patterson, OPAM, President, Oil Painters of America; and Kristen Hoerth, Editor in Chief, Southwest Art Magazine who will head the panel of jurors.

We are asking all of our friends to help spread the word for this new and exciting celebration of the arts in Kansas. If you would like more information about entering this competition, please visit our website at www.SouthWindArtGallery.com/callforentries.php

We are certainly looking forward to seeing all of the wonderful art Kansas has to offer.

For complete information about the SouthWind Gallery Kansas-150 Art Competition, interested parties may visit online at www.SouthWindArtGallery.com.  Also, entry forms and contest rules can be downloaded at: www.southwindartgallery.com/callforentries.php.

Click this link to download all Kansas-150 Art Competition information in PDF format.

SouthWind Gallery, 3074 SW 29th, Topeka, Kansas, is a fine art gallery specializing in paintings and sculpture by Kansas and Midwestern artists.

Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri., 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Sat., 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., and First Friday Art Walk extended hours: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. 
Voice Mail: 785.273.5994
E-Mail: Info@SouthWindArtGallery.com; web: www.SouthWindArtGallery.com.

Hulan Fleming: Featured Artist Paint the Parks 100

"Song of the Wind"
Death Valley National Park
Hulan Fleming
Oil, 15" x 30"

   

"Last Light"
Death Valley National Park
Hulan Fleming
Oil, 12" x 24"
$2,200



This is Hulan Fleming's third year to be awarded entry in Paint the Parks100. He is best known for his paintings and prints of western art, Native American art, wildlife, landscape, seascape and astronomy subjects.  For Hulan the love of art has always been there, so, in his middle teens his parents signed him up with “Art Instruction”, a Commercial Art course out of Minneapolis. This was interrupted when he was drafted in 1953. He then served in the 83rd engineers in France as Company Painter. While on leave he toured parts of Italy, France and England.

Hulan  decided to go to Seattle Pacific University in the fall of 1957. After completing his Physics degree in June of 1965, he taught Jr. High Science for 3 years. During that time he joined Gallery North, and completed about 10 paintings selling 6 of them at his first show. This and other significant things encouraged him to change careers in 1968.

Those influencing him in the early years were Andrew Wyeth, Harold Lyon, Fred Oldfield and others. It was Fred Oldfield who encouraged him to go to the Western Art Auctions. It was at the First  National Western Art Show  & Auction  in Ellensburg where he received his first award for his first cowboy painting.  Since then he has become an accomplished professional artist, and sells his paintings all over the U.S.

Hulan describes his work as realistic impressionism, not truly historical to detail but bearing the spiritual idea of the place. His oils are done on hard board (Masonite type), which is an excellent surface and has been age tested to survive 600 or more years.

For the future, his interests are leaning towards the Plein Air (painting on site) and more impressionism. It will be interesting to watch and see what he will paint next.

Paint the Parks100 national touring exhibit is at SouthWind Gallery until July 15, 2010.
Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created  to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can also be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org

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Lynn Boggess: Featured Artist Paint the Parks100

HOWARD FRIEDLAND
JURORS AWARD
"12 February, 2009"
Gauley River National Recreation Area
Lynn Boggess
Oil, 26" x 22"

In many large and small ways, Boggess' paintings reflect the entire tradition of landscape painting. When asked what major influences or past movements might have left their imprint, Boggess says that whatever images he might be studying at the time provide the nexus for his own work. Indeed, the viewers will find suggestions of the Romantics, the Luminists, the Impressionists, and the Expressionists. Yet, the artist does not set out to make his works conform to a preconceived style; rather, he melds the tradition and his own experience into a way of seeing and a style in landscape painting which is uniquely his own.

Stylistically reflective of European and American landscape painting, Boggess' work transcends the pitfall of betraying his predecessors and forges, in its place, an art of resolution and contemplation. Nature has been acknowledged in his work and accepted for what it has to offer in the way of healing and beauty. That last concept - beauty - is a loaded word in an age of art which often gives us truth with all its flaws and warts, or with the sophistication of irony, which is all-too-often uncomfortable with the idea that beauty is definable, desirable, or even necessary. Boggess' work cuts through such specious queries to a plainer truth: that beauty simply is ~ an unavoidable irrefutable fact of the natural world. In their unhedging presentation of this fact, Boggess' paintings offer solace and respite, even to the most casual of viewers, just as do the original locations in Nature which were his impetus. (comments by Marian J. Hollinger, Curator - James David Brooks Memorial Gallery - Fairmont State College)

Paint the Parks100 national touring exhibit is at SouthWind Gallery until July 15, 2010.
Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created  to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can also be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org


Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. SouthWindArtGallery.com

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Barbara Summers Edwards: Featured Paint the Parks100 artist.

SUSAN BLACKWOOD
JURORS AWARD
"Birth of a Nation"
Wind Cave National Park
Barbara Summers Edwards
Oil, 30" x 20"

After graduating from Utah State University in Illustration and working as a freelance illustrator, Barbara evolved as a fine art, oil and watercolor painter. Commonly portraying figurative imagery, her painterly realistic paintings have received numerous awards as they have been exhibited in international, national, regional and state juried, invitational, group and two person exhibits. Two of her paintings were purchased by The Utah Arts Council as part of the State of Utah's Permanent Collection. One of those, "Gotcha!", hangs in the First Lady of Utah's State Office.

Barbara had the honor of being juried into prestigious International 2002 Arts for the Parks Top 100 Exhibit and she was awarded the Yellowstone National Park Purchase Award and the Arts for the Parks Wildlife Award of Merit. In that same exhibit, in 1996, US Art Magazine selected her painting for its Award of Excellence. Other exhibits and awards include: Oil Painters of America National Exhibit 1995, 2001-2003; Award of Excellence 1995; Regional Award of Excellence 1999; Utah Watercolor Society-Award of Excellence and Inter-mountain Society of Artists-First Place Painting Award. In 1999 Barbara's painting, "When I was Child", was published in the North Light Book, The Best of Portrait Painting.
A native of Idaho, Barbara lives in Smithfield, Utah with her artist husband, Glen.

"My subject matter, color and style are a very personal, intuitive part of who I am since I discovered art at the age of twelve. I enjoy working with figurative imagery although more and more I am examining landscape and often combine the two. I love watching people, especially children as I wish to see the world of wonder anew through their eyes. I am most interested in small everyday moments often missed or seemingly unimportant compared to the social and headline grabbing events of the world.

In a very painterly and vigorous approach I brush in shapes of broken color, defining the form and composition I have in mind. I work mostly from photographs I have taken either on one of many research trips, hire models or both. I build the surface with color and textural subtleties in contrast to the strong light and dark patterns I am fond of using. Thus my love of quilts and flowers inherited from my mother and grandmother.

Although a great admirer of impressionism, I do not consider myself a true impressionist. I enjoy working with the impressions of light and color, but also want to narrate a story or idea to capture a moment of life. My intention is for those who view my work to not only see the color, value, composition and all the other requirements of a good painting but also to share a definite feeling or memory of the timeless human drama represented.

Someone once asked me how I made my paintings appear so powerful and yet at the same time feel so gentle. I'm not sure how to answer the question, but, I consider the question a great compliment."

Paint the Parks100 national touring exhibit is at SouthWind Gallery until July 15, 2010.
Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created  to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can also be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org


Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. SouthWindArtGallery.com

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Steven Hileman: Featured Artist Paint the Parks100

 KIM CASEBEER JURORS AWARD
"Sapphirine Cove"
Acadia National Park
Steven Hileman
Oil, 20" x 24"

Through his paintings, Steven Hileman desires to share his personal vision of God’s creation.

Art has been an important factor throughout Steven’s life. Growing up in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Steven spent countless hours developing his skills through personal study and his various art classes. At Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida, Steven studied under accomplished artists who grounded him in the basic principles of art and encouraged him to pursue excellence through knowledge and discipline. After earning his degree in Communications with a concentration in Commercial Art, Steven spent three years as a staff illustrator for A Beka Books, Inc., a large publishing company in Pensacola. On his own time, Steven continued to develop his painting skills, and also began exhibiting his paintings in juried shows around the country. Leaving his illustration job behind, Steven and his family relocated to Orland, Maine, where he began pursuing painting full-time. Shortly following this transition, Steven’s paintings began receiving more recognition through various galleries and shows, and today, they continue to draw the attention of art lovers and collectors. Consequently, his paintings can be found in numerous private collections around the country.

Considering himself a realist with impressionistic influences, Steven paints directly from his own life experiences, attempting to capture with honesty and immediacy his impressions of the world around him. Influenced by many of the great American, Russian, and European masters of the past as well as various contemporary masters, Steven paints with careful attention to drawing, values, color, and edges. He constantly strives to capture the subtle relationships between these elements to create beautiful and meaningful works of art.


Paint the Parks100 national touring exhibit is at SouthWind Gallery until July 15, 2010.
Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created  to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can also be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org


Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. SouthWindArtGallery.com

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Keri Vanderlaan: Featured Artist Paint the Parks100

REGION III AWARD WINNER
"Jackson Lake Serenity"
Grand Teton National Park
Keri Vanderlaan
Watercolor, 14" x 21"

Keri Vanderlaan is an emerging artist. Her third watercolor painting "Jackson Lake Serenity" has won the coveted Region III award in the 2009 Paint the Parks competition.  She also had great success with her first watercolor painting “A Gift From the Navajos” by winning a Top 100 award in the final Arts for the Parks competition. That painting has since appeared in Splash10, a popular coffee table book by the publishers of The Artist’s Magazine.  She also had graphite pencil and colored pencil drawings of people and animals in the Art-A-Fair Festival, an annual juried show in Laguna Beach, California.

Keri is a naturally talented artist. She is self taught, having studied by reading books and art instructional magazines, and observing masterful paintings by other artists. She has been working in watercolor recently, but is accomplished in pencil, colored pencils, acrylics and pastels. She is also a very talented portrait artist. She paints and draws photorealistic, highly detailed pictures.

 She is a passionate nature lover. The beauty and serenity of nature is her inspiration to paint. She lives in Silverado Canyon, a very beautiful rural area of Southern California which gives her great inspiration as well. She has been to 15 national parks to date and to Alaska. Her goal in life is to see and faithfully depict the beauty of our world and our people for all to appreciate. 



Paint the Parks100 national touring exhibit is at SouthWind Gallery until July 15, 2010.
Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created  to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can also be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org


Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. SouthWindArtGallery.com

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Dan Stouffer: Featured Artist Paint the Parks100

REGION II AWARD WINNER
"Last Light"
White Sands National Monument
Dan Stouffer
Watercolor, 27" x 18"
$3,000

Born in Ohio and educated at the Ohio State University, Stouffer's early professional career was in book design and production management. His first years in NM were spent at the University of New Mexico Press. During that time, lured by the mystique and beauty of the land, he began painting. He eventually turned his part-time painting into successes in local and regional art events, and in 1979, he left the Press and became a full-time artist.

Since that time, Stouffer has built an impressive list of credentials. His work has been shown in several museums and is in corporate collections throughout the country. He has won 60 national and regional awards along the way, some in such prominent competitions as Watercolor U.S.A., Rocky Mountain National and Arts for the Parks.

In addition to exhibiting in most of the top art events in the Southwest, Stouffer has been a board member and juror for several shows. He is currently a member of Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society and Watercolor USA Honor Society, and is listed in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the West. His work has also been featured in various newspapers and magazine articles, including Watercolor Quarterly, Southwest Art, and Watercolor Magic.

Dan Stouffer currently resides in Bosque Farms, NM, with his wife Jean and their two canine buddies, Julie and Angel P. Stouffer.



Paint the Parks100 national touring exhibit is at SouthWind Gallery until July 15, 2010.
Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created  to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can also be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org


Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. SouthWindArtGallery.com

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Mel Grunau: Featured Artist Paint the Parks100

REGION I AWARD WINNER
"Rock Ledges"
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Mel Grunau
Oil, 31.75 " x 13"

What Mel says about his work. "My work in general reflects my personality. My family and friends tell me that I am usually reserved and prefer to listen rather than talk. My paintings do not shout. My palette is infused with subdued colors. I paint realistic as well as abstract images. When I portray realistic images I hope to convey not only the image itself but also the subtleties of light, sound and smell surrounding the image. The colors I choose are often soft shades of gray, blue and green.

Work I hope to draw the viewer into the painting. In the case of realism there is less left to the imagination but the sense of the viewer experiencing the painting is the goal. In abstract works my hope is that the viewer will find elements as they relate to his or her own interpretation. There is great satisfaction when a viewer will indicate that each time a painting is viewed, new elements reveal themselves. This is certainly a tribute to the actual involvement of the viewer with the work and is most rewarding to me as an artist."
 
Paint the Parks100 national touring exhibit is at SouthWind Gallery until July 15, 2010.
Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created  to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can also be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org


Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. SouthWindArtGallery.com

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Paint the Parks 100

SouthWind Art Gallery in Topeka Is Pleased to Present…

Paint the Parks 100

A National Touring Exhibition

Exhibit runs May 15, 2010 – July 15, 2010
Opening Reception: 

Friday, June 4, 2010, 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Paint the Parks is a national touring exhibition of contemporary representative paintings depicting America’s National Parks. The exhibit is organized by PaintAmerica, a Topeka-based, national non-profit organization, created to support and promote the visual arts. As one of the leading traveling art exhibitions in America, it features the works of many of the country’s most recognized contemporary artists, as well as several talented emerging artists. The exhibit is created annually from an international juried artists’ competition, and includes the highest juror-scored pieces from nearly a thousand total submissions. The show can be viewed online at www.paintamerica.org.

The exhibit at SouthWind Gallery will include the Grand Prize Purchase Award painting “Trail Watchers” by Patrick McManus. The oil painting by McManus depicts bighorn sheep on a cliff ledge. Gardner, KS artist Elaine Lierly-Jones’ was named the Grand Prize Winner in the Mini50 portion of the competition for her painting “Arches National Park”

The competition for all painting media was judged by a juror panel of nationally recognized artists Susan Blackwood, Kim Casebeer, and Howard Friedland. Winning paintings were chosen from hundreds of entries submitted internationally, with the winners comprising the traveling exhibition. Other major awards were:

The Region I Award – “Rock Ledges” by Mel Grunau
The Region II Award – “Last Light” by Dan Stouffer
The Region III Award – “Jackson Lake Serenity” by Keri VanderLaan
The Susan Blackwood Juror’s Choice Award – “Birth of a Nation” by Barbara Summers Edwards
The Kim Casebeer Juror’s Choice Award – “Sappharine Cove” by Steven Hileman
The Howard Friedland Juror’s Choice Award – “12 February, 2009” by Lynn Boggess
The Susan Blackwood Juror’s Choice Award (Mini) – “Cactus Flower” by Eileen Nistler
The Howard Friedland Juror’s Choice Award (Mini) – “Morning Mist” by Jonathan Linton

The Paint The Parks exhibit features many different mediums and illustrates a variety of regional painting styles. The SouthWind Gallery showing represents the final stop on the 2009 national tour. The show began at the Kolb Studio, Grand Canyon, AZ; and has toured St. Louis, MO; West Palm Beach, FL; and to the Chicago area before coming to SouthWind Gallery.

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