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Carrie Jadus + Straub Park St Pete = Historical Painting
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An Afternoon at Straub Park
On Christmas Eve 1909, William Straub, then editor of the St. Petersburg Times, announced what he described as “the best Christmas present St. Petersburg ever received”–the city’s purchase of land for Waterfront Park, property that would be dedicated as public parkland in December 1910.
To help commemorate this milestone anniversary, the original oil painting, An Afternoon at Straub Park was especially created by Saint Petersburg Artist Carrie Jadus. This delicate image captures a lovely vista of Straub Park that is now available as a commemorative poster and also as 5×7 Note cards. These beautiful posters and cards make great special gifts and best of all your purchase will help fund the 2010 Centennial Celebration events that will be free to the public.
Waterfront Centennial Merchandise and Information regarding events is available online at:
Also visit our booth this Saturday at the Saturday Morning Market!!!
Please join us for Discover History in the Parks on Thursday, December 31, 2009, at St. Petersburg’s annual First Night Festivities!
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Peter Petegrew At Galeria del Mar, St Augustine
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Matt Cutter and Peter Pettegrew
Frank Smith and Peter Pettegrew
Above, Peter with Windham Hill guitarist and personal friend Frank Smith, who came all the way up from Naples, Florida to perform during Peter’s show.
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New Work By Dorothy Starbuck
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Ocala Cows
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 20×24
Dorothy Starbuck was born and raised in Miami, Florida where she developed a love and passion for painting the natural splendor of her beloved tropical state. She has been most influenced by artist and instructor Dave Herbert, and historical artist, Graham Ingles.
Determination, continuous study, imagination, and a desire to excel are what enable Dorothy to paint as she does. Her paintings mirror the beauty, color, and tranquility in the hundreds of tropical landscapes unique to Florida.
Her works of art display an exceptional talent in painting and preserving the images of Florida’s diverse and dwindling, unique, natural features. These range from Atlantic and Gulf beaches and sand dunes, to lakes, rivers, springs, marshlands, swamps, hammocks, mangroves, forests, and pastures.
Dorothy works diligently to ensure all elements painted –sky, land, palms, birds, and botanicals-are accurately portrayed. Colors and textures are precise and vivid.
Her representational style conveys the calmness and serenity she feels while sketching or taking photographs in the field. Her powers of direct observation, pursuit of excellence, and ability to capture the nuances of color, light, and shadow give her oil paintings an authentic feel.
Oil painter Richard Schmid, with his marvelous capture of mood and light, is an example of an artist who inspires Dorothy. His work moves her to reach beyond herself and paint the very best for corporate and private patrons who collect her paintings. Dorothy’s paintings have been featured in the Florida State Capital in Tallahassee, at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. in the permanent collection of the U.S. Air Force and in various Florida art museums.
The Point Washington State Forest and the Choctawhatchee bayou surround Dorothy as she paints and teaches in her studio. She lives in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, with her husband Bob. They have three daughters.
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Golden Cypress
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 18×24
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Ibises Silver River
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 16×20
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Solitude
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 18×24
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Western Lakes Pines
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 20×16
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: River Beauty
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 16×20
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Rivers Edge
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 20×16
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Lazy Loxahatchie
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 16×12
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Stately Sabals
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 36×24
Artist: Starbuck
Titles: Cow Pasture
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Size: 30×36
Artist:Starbuck
Title:Birds Of A Feather
Medium:Giclee
Substrate:Canvas
Size:11×14
Price:Call
Edition:Call
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Wekiva Invitational Plein Air Paint Out
With spring in the air, it was time once again for the third annual Wekiva Invitational www.wekivapaintout.com This gathering of artists and patrons is held in conjunction with the 4th annual Wekiva Riverfest. Proceeds from the event benefit the Friends of the Wekiva River, a non-profit organization that works to preserve and restore the natural beauty of the Wekiva River system, designated as one of the seven jewels of Central Florida. This year, two dozen artists converged on the park and surrounding areas to spend the week putting the beauty of the river to canvas.
Hosting the event was the Wekiva Island, a green and unique carbon neutral riverside oasis www.wekivaisland.com which provided free use of their canoes and kayaks to any of the participating artists, as well as a captained river boat to take them wherever they might like.
It was a chilly but beautiful week of painting which culminated in a Friday night opening attended by many collectors and nearby residents. Many works sold that night and even more the following day during the Riverfest celebration.
For the third year in a row, Florida Impressionist Landscape painter Peter Pettegrew was one of the participating artists in what he describes as “one of the highlights of my year” with good company and endless motifs to explore on canvas.
Artist’s Reception For Marsha Hammel Saturday
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.
Marsha Hammel at Boca Raton And St Petersburg
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. ”
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson Schedules Workshop
Central Florida artist Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson
will be conducting an art workshop
at the Artists’ Workshop of New Smyrna Beach
February 7/8, 2009
Please visit Artists Registry website for more information.
An Artful Evening With Caleb At Interior Motives Gallery
1110 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg, FL 33705
Friday, November 14, 6:00PM to 9:30PM
Phone: 727-898-6061
A few of the works available at the show are presented below– click on the thumbnail for a larger view.
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Title:St Petersburg Warehouse $375 |
Title:Rock Crusher-St.Pete $375 |
Title: The Rick Emerson Show $375 |
Title: Play House-St Petersburg $375 |
Title: Behind Ferg’s-St Petersburg $375 |
Title:18th Ave NE-St Petersburg $375 |
Title:Snell Bridge Evening-St Pete $375 |
Title:Suburbia-St Petersburg $375 |
Title:Chattaway 2-St Pete $375 |
Title:Kid with Rooster-St Pete $375 |
Title:The Reception $375 |
Title: Garage Chairs-St Petersburg $375 |
Title:Coney Island-St Petersburg $375 |
Title:Three Palms-St Petersburg $1700 |
Title:Afternoon Slump $375 |
Title:Groceries $375 |
Title: Yellow House III-St Petersburg $375 |
Title:Our House $1400 |
Title: Picket Fence-St Petersburg $375 |
Title: Big Bamboo-St Petersburg $650 |
Title: Late Riser $650 |
Title: Cyclista-St Petersburg $375 |
Title: 15th Avenue N -St Petersburg $375 |
Title:Wednesday The 2nd $900 |
Title:Old Glory $650 |
Title:Crescent Lake VIII $675 |
Title:Autumn Day $275 |
Title:Snell Isle Span 275 |
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Caleb’s |
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Prints |
Title:In A Moment |
Title:City Light |
Title:Twilight Boulevard Original Available:$300 |
Title:Evening Light Original Available:$350 |
Title:Marina Palms |
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