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For Immediate Release:

Florida Artist Pettegrew Premieres Film With Gallery Show In St Petersburg

St Petersburg Fl — Feb 18 2010

Peter Pettegrew, regional power-house landscape painter makes a rare appearance in the Tampa Bay area at Interior Motives Gallery on Central Ave in St Petersburg.

The gallery will be premiering Peter’s latest documentary film “Heart of a Landscape Painter”, produced by Florida production company Wind Dog Films.

The film premiere will be held at Interior Motives Gallery in St Petersburg Thursday February 25th. There will be two screenings, with Pettegrew on hand for both, one at 6:30pm and the other at 7:30pm.(32 mins.) The artist reception and opening Friday, February 26th 6:30pm to 9:30pm. One man show continues through March 22nd.

Given Peter’s 6 previous museum shows and 30 year painting career, it is natural that St Petersburg Gallery owner Leslie Curran wants to bring this masterful painter’s work to her gallery.

Peter Pettegrew has devoted his life to capturing the timeless beauty of the natural landscape. His plein air work with charcoal and paint has become a legendary example of many studies and painting groups.The landscape has always been the beloved subject for Pettegrew’s passionate creations. A naturalist and outdoors man he explores wilderness areas in Florida and many of his painting are from National and State Preserves. He draws his inspiration from his diverse travels. In the last few years he has been to France, the Caribbean, Montana and California to capture his subjects. Most often he is painting in the Southeastern United States.

Peter Pettegrew lived in Tampa Bay area in the 80’s. His home and studio are now in the Orlando area.

Peter’s collectors include local personalities including Kelly Craig and Bob Hite (newscasters) and many national personalities, including John Travolta (actor) and Dan Quayle (Vice President) . His municipal collections & fund raising events include the City of St.Petersburg, City of Tampa, City of Orlando, City of Charleston, Naples Winter Wine Festival, National Parks Foundation, Conservancy of Southwest FL, Sierra Club, Beaufort Open Land Trust, Habitat for Humanity, and memberships that include the American Society of Classical Realists, National Watercolor Society (N.W.S.) and the Oil Painters of America (O.P.A.)

Leslie Curran has been a part of the home design business for over 20 years. Her gallery, Interior Motives, is celebrating its fifth year at 1110 Central Ave, downtown St Pete. She is a St. Petersburg native and is currently a St. Petersburg council person.

Interior Motives Gallery 1110 Central Ave St Petersburg Fl interiormotivesstpete.com

727 898-6061

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

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

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. ”

The St. Pete Craft Heroes are excited to announce a second super hand-made holiday event!The Holiday Shuffle will take place on Friday December 5 at the Historic Mirror Lake Shuffleboard Club! More details to come but put this on your calendar! Don’t miss this or The Holizaar on Nov 30th, as each event will feature a different line up of artisans so your selection will be fresh and amazing at both shows!

Preview

Etsy Buy Handmade CraftHeroes

Interested vendors should contact craftheroes@yahoo.com , send images and description of your latest creations to be considered as a vendor. Thanks!!

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 Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title:Rock Crusher-St.Pete Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375
Title: The Rick Emerson Show Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title: Play House-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375
Title: Behind Ferg’s-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title:18th Ave NE-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375
Title:Snell Bridge Evening-St Pete Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title:Suburbia-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375
Title:Chattaway 2-St Pete Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title:Kid with Rooster-St Pete Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375
Title:The Reception Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title: Garage Chairs-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375
Title:Coney Island-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title:Three Palms-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Canvas Size:36×36 $1700
Title:Afternoon Slump Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Canvas Size:18×24 $375	Title:Groceries Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Canvas Size:18×24 $375
Title: Yellow House III-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title:Our House Medium:Oil Substrate:Canvas Size:30×40 $1400
Title: Picket Fence-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title: Big Bamboo-St Petersburg Medium:Oil Substrate:Canvas Size:24×30 $650
Title: Late Riser Medium:Oil Substrate:Canvas Size:24×30 $650	Title: Cyclista-St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375
Title: 15th Avenue N -St Petersburg Medium:Acrylic Substrate:Paper Size:22×30 $375	Title:Wednesday The 2nd Medium:Oil Substrate:Canvas Size:36×24 $900
Title:Old Glory Medium:Oil Substrate:Canvas Size:30×24 $650	Title:Crescent Lake VIII Medium:Oil Substrate:Canvas Size:24×30 $675
Title:Autumn Day Medium:Oil Substrate: Acrylic Board Size:11×14 $275	Title:Snell Isle Span Medium:Oil Substrate: Acrylic Board Size:11×14$ 275
*** Caleb’s	*** Prints
Title:In A Moment Medium:Giclee Substrate:Canvas,Paper Size:30×22,28×20 Price:300,250 Edition:195,95	Title:City Light Medium:Giclee Substrate:Paper Size:14.5×13 Price:125 Edition:195
Title:Twilight Boulevard Medium:Giclee Substrate:Canvas Size:16×16 Price:200 Edition:295 Original Available:$300	Title:Evening Light Medium:Giclee Substrate:Canvas Size:16×16 Price:200 Edition:295 Original Available:$350
Title:Marina Palms Medium:Giclee Substrate:Paper Size:27.5×20.5 Price:150 Edition:95