Southern Fields Art Resource

Seven North of St Petersburg, Florida has become a marketing partner with Arte De Cuba/CubanArt to distribute paintings and prints from the island of Cuba in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. See the initial selection *here*.

Sculptor Leslie Fry, who summers on her modest estate in Vermont and winters here in St Petersburg, has been getting great reviews on her new book “Wild Life“.

Leslie writes:

Hi Caleb,
Thank you always for your wonderful design of the map/announcement card for my park sculpture project last year. I also thanked you in the Acknowledgments of my recently completed book documenting the project:
Wild Life: A Public Art Project, is a 44 page, full color book available at *Lulu.com*
A six-minute video about the project, Wild Life Sculpture Search, can be seen *here*
The book, Wild Life: A Public Art Project, includes an essay by Dr. Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, who wrote:
“Wild Life thus acts as a vehicle for a multi-sensory awareness of place and nature. Through artifice, nature is found. The placement [of the sculptures] also intensifies their liminality. They live at the edge – of the wilderness, and of our perception, as if seen in the corner of the eye. Such slippage in and out of awareness is a profound metaphor for the dream world – the mental land where myths are born.”

An athletic Leslie Fry inspects Laura Mogollon’s prints at St Petersburg Saturday Art Market.

Art for a Cure, a Tampa Bay show which featured Caleb, Carolina Cleere, Lori Ballard, Emily Page, Jack Breit, Donna Morrison, Rick Reeves, Jason Fondren and others was well attended and profitable for several of the artists, as well as the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, to which a portion of the proceeds were donated. James Cournoyer of Seven North took a bunch of photos, a few of which appear below.

Many thanks to everyone who help donated their time and hard work to make this happen for the children of this great charity.

Many thanks from everyone to Megan Voeller of Artsqueeze, for providing the high profile notification for the event.

James Cournoyer took some photos before the opening of Marsha Hammel’s show at Hyde Park Fine Arts in central Tampa, Fl. (1608 W. Snow Ave. in Hyde Park Village) Although Marsha enjoys an international reputation for her paintings and prints and has done so for 30 years, and although her first-ever show was held in a Tampa Bay warehouse all those years ago, this is the first show she has had in the the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area since then. To this North Carolina-based snowbird we say– welcome back!

Marsha Hammel’s work is available at Southern Fields.

The Gulf Coast Museum in Largo, Florida announced they had obtained an extended loan of Robert Bruce Epstein’s “Islands In The Dream”, a large (48″x66″) acrylic painting on masonite for their permanent collection.

Islands in the Dream is a combination of imagery from looking out the airplane window on to the vast Gulf and islands while flying into St. Petersburg.

–Gulf Coast Museum

Robert’s work can be obtained through Southern Fields.

Art for a Cure will feature Caleb, Carolina Cleere, Lori Ballard, Emily Page, Jack Breit, Donna Morrison, Rick Reeves, Jason Fondren and others. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Pediatric Cancer Foundation.
Thanks, Megan!
Friday, May 16, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday, May 17, 10 p.m. to 4 p.m.
La Maddalena town homes, 3834 W. Platt St., Tampa

Holiday, Florida-based artist and plein air painter Elaine Hahn took part in this years Heart of Florida Paint Out Event. The painting performance, which was billed as a “six day plein air painting marathon,” was held on the shores of Orange Lake, Florida.

Ms. Hahn’s prints are available through Southern Fields.

North Carolina-based painter and print maker Marsha Hammel returned to her early Tampa roots when she set up a seasonal winter studio on Davis Island in Tampa last fall.
“The work that we did together was very collaborative,” Hammel said.

“The expression of the model and the emotion of the idea were transferred through me, the painter, onto the canvas,” she said. “The creative process can happen in a lot of different ways. This kind of emotional collaboration between the artist and the model can result in some very expressive paintings. “

Some of her work with dancer Tai Bartova is on display in her Hyde Park Exhibit “Model as Muse” which shows through May 31st at Hyde Park Fine Arts.
Marsha Hammel’s work is available at SouthernFields.com

Sanibel artist Sissi Janku, in conjunction with Sanibel Cares and Children’s Hospital, has completed a series of seven large murals, each one 12 feet in length, along with eight smaller pieces. These paintings grace the walls the walls of the Children’s Oncology Unit at Health Park.
These murals, which depict colorful Sanibel Island scenes, have been collectively titled “Dolly’s Hope Harbor.”

Central Florida artist Dorothy Starbuck won an Award of Merit at Santa Fe Community College’s annual Spring Arts Festival in Gainesville, Fl.

See Dorothy’s prints, which are published by Southern Fields, here.