I continue to meet interesting and generous people everywhere I go. This year's painting culminated in a grand pop up gallery held in magnificent private home on Upper Saranac Lake. It is so rewarding to have a large body of work (40 paintings) installed in such a gorgeous home environment. This whole story began last July when I had a solo exhbition at View in Old Forge, a wonderful Arts Center with several well designed gallery spaces for exhibitons. I became an accidental artist-in-residence when a certain woman purchased the signature piece from my show. Marsha Stanley has written a delightful article about this experience from her perspective that was recently published in the Adirondack Almanac.
A beautiful preview cocktail party was held for the AdkAction.org board members as well as the board of the local Wild Center. Both of these places are dear to my heart and 20% of all sales were donated to AdkAction.org for the many wonderful projects they do in the area. I will be giving a talk at the Wild Center on Sept 8, 2014. The talk is entitled "The Wilderness Within" and will give a glimpse into the process of my own artwork as well as discuss the advantages of using social media as an isolated rural artist.
The pop up continued for another two days and many, many people dropped by. I sold eighteen paintings! The gallery curator from the prestigious resort next door called "The Point" came by and selected four paintings for their gallery as well. It was a tremendously successful experience for me on many levels.
4 comments:
The Adirondacks have been a favorite place of mine for decades. Anyone who has ever traveled there can't help but be inspired. What a gorgeous setting for your beautiful paintings, Holly! Congratulations on all those sales.
My warmest regards to you and Walt and your families.
P.S. I hope your talk is videotaped. I'd love to hear it.
Thanks Maureen. Glad to hear of your love for the Adirondacks as well. The talk at the Wild Center will be video taped and posted on the website. I will keep you posted. Warm regards back to you from both Walt and I.
You just get better and better. The textural "bones" of these paintings makes me wish I could stroke the surface.
Great titles, too - and what a great location for a showing.
THank-you Patrice, the texture is the one thing that doesn't come across that well in photos. I hope you get to see them in person one day! :)
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