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Rocky Mountains #1, oil by Nancy Woodward

The double triptych, “Stitched” that I painted last year comes down today and we are hanging wonderful, stylized landscapes by Nancy Woodward.  If you are in Fairhaven go to WECU to see the local, original art.

Thank you, WECU for supporting local, organic, original art in Bellingham.

We are going to discuss design in Open Studio this week.  We will talk about how nature designs fruits & vegetables to not only look like a body part, but how that fruit or vegetable, in fact, promotes the health and well being of that particular body part; such as

A tomato has four chambers and is red.  The heart is red and has four chambers.  All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.

What about Walnuts, Avacado, Kidney Beans and Grapes?

How do we put this design information to work to improve our personal design for our paintings?

 Soul Window, by Nancy Leshinsky

Congratulations, Nancy Leshinsky! 

The show is at Axis Gallery in Sacramento it’s their 4th National Juried Exhibition juried by Janet Bishop curator of SFMOMA  It runs August 1-30 2009.  their web is http://www.axisgallery.org/

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Ryan always looked UP!

A new show is in the making called Altitude.  For the month of September you will be able to view my new work at the Blue Horse Gallery with the artist reception on Friday September 4, 6-10pm. 

This will mark a year anniversary for me that will be heartfelt.  Ryan fell on September 7, 2008.  I sincerely hope that you will come share the evening with me.  The show is not only a tribute to Ryan’s amazing spirit but my way to share that spirit with others.  If you have lost someone you cherish or if you are a risk taker don’t miss this show.  I would love to hear your stories.

Live while you are alive!

Peace,

Trish

In an ever present attempt to offer the community more variety at Studio UFO during the Art Walks, I will be showing my work that deals with Downtown itself.  Not only will I be showing street scenes, I will also be displaying many of the Georgia Pacific Paintings done over several years, en plein air and while the deconstruction was taking place.   Many of you already know my committment to Art in the Downtown and this is proof positive.  Here are two paintings that I finished this winter. 

I am well aware that I am living in a historical time for Bellingham and am immersed in that change with my paintings.  I also have “Stitched” the Double Triptych hanging until the end of June at WECU in Fairhaven.  This painting depicts a 360 degree vision of Downtown Bellingham in 6 panels, each measuring 4×6 feet.

Each day I get up I think of something that I am thankful for regarding living in Bellingham.  Today, it is the Depot Market which we spent the afternoon at, met several really colorful, fabulous friends both visiting the Market and some venders.

I have a new thing going on at Studio UFO during Art Walk.  Each Art Walk I will select a painting that has a normal retail price of $600-$1100 and I will offer that painting as a “Walk Away Painting” for $300.  If the painting does not walk away for that price it will go back into my inventory at the regular price.  This is a chance for someone who connects with a particular piece to be able to walk away with an opportunity to own an original painting for a great price.  I wonder what painting I will select…Come on down on Friday July 3, 6-10pm and see!

Speaking of Downtown…don’t forget the Downtown Bellingham Plein Air Paint Out and Exhibition 2009, PAPO.

 CALENDAR 

July 15                        Entry Form & Fee Due

Aug 22& 23                Paint Out 10am-3pm

Oct 30-31        Drop off painting Blue Horse Gallery 11am-5pm

Nov 6              Fourth Annual Downtown Bellingham Plein Air Exhibition ArtistsReception 6-10pm

Dec 1               Pick up artwork 12-5pm (artwork cannot be stored) 

The event will be well promoted to the public.       

I’m headed to the studio to paint all day today.  I will lock the door, put a “do not disturb” sign out and completely emerse myself into my painting.   I am working on “Altitude”, a collection of paintings for my one person show in September 09 at the Blue Horse Gallery. 

Altitude

 Altitude is a show that is inspired by a road trip to Mazama in the Fall of 2008 as we drove from Bellingham which is sea level and traveled steadily up and over highway 20 to end up at over 6000 feet at Hart’s Pass, literally, sittin’ on top o’ the world! .

Through the use of light and value my aim is to capture the feeling of an other-worldliness that sitting on a mountaintop brings.  I carefully constructed the compositions to give a sensation of vertigo that I experience when I am at high altitudes.  I used circular under-paintings that would influence the direction of bold, colorful brush strokes to create a feeling of motion, completeness and connection, all adjectives, which have often been used to describe our son, Ryan. 

 With these paintings I am taking the viewer on that road trip with me during a magic autumn day of excited anticipation to see Ryan’s new cabin at the base of Goat Mountain and to experience with me the feeling that I had that day which was…”The world around me is incredible and my children are amazing. My husband is by my side and I do not require one more single thing or circumstance that will make me any happier or more fulfilled than I am right now!” That feeling was to change.  By the next autumn we were traveling to Mazama again but this time heading East on Highway 90 and for a very somber reason.   The second part of the show depicts the emotional journey back from retrieving our beloved Ryan’s ashes. 

I am convinced that Ryan’s belief that he was and remains a critical piece in the larger scheme of Mother Nature is what enabled him to experience life with no fear and no greed.  But the feeling that he experienced when he had climbed to the top of a 1500-foot face of granite under his own physical prowess was the ultimate.

 The artistic journey that I have taken to put this show together was extremely difficult and cathartic at the same time.  I now revere the places that Ryan loved, I understand that risk was a huge component of Ryan’s rock climbing experience and this risk was indeed the biggest component of Ryan’s prelude to the mystery!    

Ryan Alan Murray Triplett

June 5, 1977-September 7, 2008

More info about Ryan:  Rock and Ice, issue 179 / July 2009, Cliff Notes or                                      http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=672814

July 2009  

Registration Form       STUDIO UFO

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Trish Harding School of Art at Studio UFO

301 W Holly St, Room M4, Bellingham, WA 98225

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