Southern Fields Art Resource

The Winter Park PaintOut, which was based at on the grounds of the beautiful and historic Albin Polasek Museum in Winter Park was a big success for everyone involved. Being the first annual event, it was easily determined by the founders of the paintout that it was the beginning of a new springtime tradition. Every participating artist - over twenty five in all - sold works at the event which help raise much needed funds for the museum. The idea for the paintout was hatched by Hal Stringer and Gary Hollingsworth both of which are heavily involved in the local art community in the Orlando area. This knowledge gave them a large group of gifted painters on which to call upon for the event. “The talent at this event was unparalleled” says Peter Pettegrew who sold three of the four works he created during the event. “Everywhere you looked there were incredible paintings in the works by the best painters of the area.” Several workshops were held during the event to help educate collectors on the different approaches on Plein Air Painting each artist employs, including area great Tom Sadler who gave an interesting demonstration on old masters techniques which drew both collectors and artists alike. The final night of the event was a beautiful evening. Inside the museum, all of the works were on display among a crowd of admirers. Outside among the sculpture gardens, delicious catering, being prepared (and donated) by some of the areas best restaurants was available for collectors to relax and decide which paintings might go home with them that night. Red dots (sold stickers) lined the walls beneath the paintings and everyone involved felt a sense of hope and accomplishment for the event and the support of those who still need art to bring beauty and joy into their lives.

Peter Pettegrew at The Polesak Paintout

Penultimate Picture of Peter Pettegrew at The Polesak Paintout

INTERIOR MOTIVES GALLERY PRESENTS:
“THE ART OF GIVING”

Saturday, May 23rd
6:00 - 9:00 pm
1110 Central Avenue
St. Petersburg

After a full month of painting on locations throughout St. Petersburg, local artist
will exhibit their “Plein Air” paintings of the scenes of St. Petersburg
that we all have grown to know and love!

These paintings will be available for purchase, with 50% of the proceeds to benefit:

DAYSTAR LIFE CENTER
Located at 226 6th Street South
St. Petersburg

Please join us as we celebrate ART and GIVING!!!

The show will run thru June 20th

INTERIOR MOTIVES GALLERY PRESENTS
“HAPPINESS”

New Works By Allison Massari

Join Us For The Art Opening and Reception
Saturday, May 9th
From 6:00 - 9:00

THE SHOW RUNS THRU MAY 20

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Leslie Curran
1110 Central Ave St. Petersburg, FL 33705
Phone: 727- 898- 9093
intmotives @gmail.com
www.interiormotivesstpete.com

Museum Of Fine Arts
St. Petersburg, FL
April 17, 2009

St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts
acquires Allison Massari original collage
for their permanent collection.

“The Healer” is expected to be on display
at the museum beginning in June 2009.

The Healer

A.R.T.C.I. Live Interactive Art Show with beautiful Models

6pm-11pm, Wednesday March 11

See details here. And here. And here, already.

Prints and original art are now available from the MacArthur Gallery Collection.

Interior Motives Gallery Presents:

Meet The Artist

Music and Musicians

New Works by Marsha Hammel Saturday, January 31, 2009

6:00 - 9:00 PM

1110 Central Avenue
St. Petersburg, FL 33705
727- 898-6061

The show will run through February 13, 2009
To preview Marsha’s newest works, please visit Marsha’s Gallery.

In March of 1989 Ybor City was just beginning to transform into a destination for arts and entertainment in the Tampa Bay area. Artists were converting derelict buildings into galleries and studios, new restaurants and shops were cropping up here and there. There were plenty of empty spaces, their owners waiting for the “market ” to make them valuable. It was in such an empty space that painter Marsha Hammel launched her first public exhibition. With the help of friends she brought in lights, hung seventy five paintings and invited three hundred people to attend a gala opening with all the trimmings.

Half of the paintings were purchased during the one night show with many of the others bought from her studio over the following few weeks. Thus began the journey which has taken this artist all across the country and over the pond to the UK and Europe.

Returning twenty years later to exhibit new work at Interior Motives Gallery in St. Petersburg at the end of January the artist brings the variety of that experience to share with both new and long-time audiences.

“Music and musicians have been a recurrent theme in my work since I lived in New Orleans back in the 70’s. As a figure painter I see the interaction of musicians playing together as composition in movement and I am always challenged to capture the atmosphere of their environment.”

The Boca Raton Symphony is featuring “Yellow Cello” as its program cover and as a print edition to raise money for the orchestra. Two original paintings by Marsha Hammel will be displayed on Opening Night, which is 11 January 2009. The original painting is a 60″x72″ oil which resides in a private Tampa collection.

“The idea of ‘Cello’ has stayed in my mind’s eye for a long time and this summer I began a series of ‘Concert in the Garden’ paintings. A friend who collects and plays Renaissance instruments inspired the compositions which are filled with light and the color of a clear day outside. I am bringing several of these new paintings to the show at Interior Motives Gallery.”

The original “Yellow Cello” is a 60″ x 72″ oil on canvas and is in a private collection in Tampa, Florida. The owning couple have been collecting Ms. Hammel’s work since the seventies and have purchased over 20 originals.

“Yellow Cello” is being used not only on the cover of this season’s program, but also on all printed material, marquee, web and special events of the Boca Raton Symphony Orchestra. A limited edition of 50 in 16″x20″ size of “Yellow Cello” is being offered to the patrons of the Symphony.

Interior Motives Gallery in St. Petersburg– Marsha Hammel’s new gallery in the Tampa Bay area– will have the only 4 artist proofs of this editions available. If interested, call the Interior Motives Gallery right away for to reserve one. The price is $150.00, and part of the proceeds go to the Boca Raton Symphony Orchestra.For the February 8th 2009 connoisseur concert series, Ms. Hammel will be in attendance as artist in residence for the evening, signing and dedicating the limited edition.

Throughout the fall and winter Marsha has been working on an large collection of Jazz themed paintings for her dealer in London, Felix Rosenstiel’s. Her work is well known in the UK and she’s enjoys some modest fame there. Next summer Marsha plans to spend eight weeks in England and to travel up to Edinburgh for the annual Jazz Festival which takes place every July.

“I would like to live and work abroad for a few years. The United States is rather a closed set and it would be good for me to expand my horizons artistically and culturally. So, this summer I plan to visit some locations in France which interest me…Honfleur in particular, is a charming “Artist’s Town ” at the mouth of the Seine and only a days drive from London, thanks to the Channel Tunnel.”

The artist will spend the first couple of months of 2009 in a Sarasota studio then in the spring returning to her home base in Western North Carolina. The canvases on her easel are compositions drawn directly from the model…actually two models, one dark and exotic the other an angelic blue eyed blond. ” The models bring inspiration to the process, each one has her own energy and is a real participant in the creative process. I hope to have a painting of each of Rhi and Abby to show at the Interior Motives Gallery at the end of January. ”