Jul 31 2009
registration-form-aug-2009.doc (double click here for registration form)
Clothed Figure Drawing Session- FULL
Tuesday Aug 11, 10am-noon, $12
Nude Figure Drawing Session- 2 SPOTS LEFT
Tuesday, Aug 25, 6:30-8:30pm, $15
to sign up send in registration form & $15 asap
Jul 24 2009
double click to see the People’s Choice Award Winner for 2008, Bellingham Farmer’s Market by Ruthie V.
Attention Artists!
4th Annual
Downtown Bellingham
Plein Air Paint Out & Exhibit
Two day paint out Saturday and Sunday
Art Exhibit at Blue Horse Gallery through November 30th Artist Opening Reception Friday November 6th 6-10pm
Watch the PAPO 08 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTNi1uZjPTg
Get your Prospectus & Entry Form www.studioufo.net or call Trish Harding 360-319-6115
Jul 21 2009
NUDE DRAWING SESSION AT STUDIO UFO!
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2009, 6:30-8:30, $15
PREREGISTRATION AND PAYMENT REQUIRED
That’s tonight for all of you who have registered. Don’t forget!
I have one cancellation so if you are interested in coming tonight and have not registered, you can still register by dropping registration into my mailbox at Studio UFO before this evening.
Jul 20 2009
double click on entry form or prospectus link below to open document and print
Jul 19 2009
Jul 17 2009
Larch, 4′x6′ oil by Trish Harding
I want to thank my “friends in painting” for all the support that you have given me since Sept 7th 2008; the day my world came to a halt and I was cast into a strange and different one. My saddness has been lessened by all of your incredible concern and kindness. Thank you, I mean that with all of my heart.
As some of you know, I am working on an extremely important show (for me) that is called Altitude which will appropriately open in September at the Blue Horse Gallery. Appropriate because Ryan’s accident was in September 2008.
This show has been very difficult to work on for a couple of reasons. For one it was really hard to see. Since I wear glasses, whenever I would be overcome with grief while painting, my glasses would get tears all over them and I would have to take them off, clean them, wipe my eyes, blink alot and try to focus my eyes again before I could but the darn glasses back on and get back to work. Wearing glasses, you see, has become more of an inconvienience than I ever thought possible. Second, it has been an intellectual struggle of mammoth proportions to try to understand why I was allowed such a short time with my son. Is it because he was an old soul, a brilliant star or was it just the way it is? It has been an emotional yet cathartic experience trying to learn, through it all to revere Ryan’s world. It has, on the other hand, been cathartic because I think that I have come close to understanding how he felt sitting way up there after the climb…incredible! And I am happy that he got to feel this, something that many people never experience in their lifetime!
Come with me to Mazama, Washington! Come with me on this visual trip and see the places that Ryan loved! I not only want to share it with you but I want you to experience, just one more time, the spirit of our beautiful son, Ryan, the only way I know how to express it as I come to some sort of closure and I move on with my life without him.
My promise to you is that it will be a celebration and not a sad affair! Eventhough I feel life has cheated me somehow, I still hold on to how lucky I am to have had him as long as I did. I truly believe that he is a star in my night sky.
I now focus on the great luck that I continue to have. The brilliance that flashes at me when I look into our daughter Molly’s eyes. How very much she means to me and what a miracle that she is. And our daughter-in-law, Jennifer. I believe that Jennifer was the missing piece to the complex puzzle that was Ryan. She made him complete before he had to leave. How lucky was he?
Now, as I take off these darn glasses again and wipe my eyes I am posting my artist statement and remember, “you are expected”.
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 was 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 & Jenny’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!
More about Ryan
Our beloved Ryan Alan Murray Triplett was born in Bellingham, Washington on June 5, 1977. He died September 7, 2008 on Goat Mountain, near Mazama, Washington long before we were ready to let him go. Ryan was an accomplished athlete in hockey, canoeing, backcountry & downhill skiing, and is well respected in the cycling and rock climbing communities. He was a hard-working software developer with many ideas for the future, but his true passions were his wife and rock climbing. He was an adventuresome soul devoted to his beloved Jennifer, with whom he shared the fairy-tale love. Ryan had many passions: friends, traveling, family, his wonder-dog Makiah, and the outdoors. Ryan could often be found on Turn 2 at the Marymoor Velodrome cheering on Jennifer, a national track champion. Ryan and Jennifer met as college students at Western Washington University, where he graduated in 2001; the couple was married in Bellingham on September 2, 2001.
Ryan is survived by his loving wife, Jennifer Ann Sutton Triplett and dog Makiah Blue Triplett; mother & stepfather Trish and Tom Harding of Bellingham; sister Molly Harding of Bellingham; sister and brothers Tammy, Garrett and Wyatt Harding of California; father and stepmother Gary and Anita Triplett of California; grandmother, Annamae Murray and aunts Donna Erickson and Judy Walston of Bellingham; aunt Barbara Chevalier of Arizona; uncles Bill Murray of Bellingham and Darrell, Wayne and Jim Triplett; several cousins; in-laws Caprice Magoon, and George, Jaimie, Coleman and Laurel Sutton; Marcy Sutton; and friends too numerous to mention.
Ryan died pursuing his passion for rocks and heights in Mazama, Washington, a special place for him. We shall all miss him, but he will live on in the hearts of all those he touched and we will always remember his words, “Live Your Passion”.
For more information go to http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=672814
More info about Ryan: Rock and Ice, issue 179 / July 2009, Cliff Notes
Jul 16 2009
My newest pastel, Sunlight on Nina, has won the Holbein Award at the 23rd International Northwest Pastel Society Show, opening tonight with an artist reception at the American Art Company in Tacoma, Wa.
Jul 14 2009
PAPO 2008 Peoples Choice Award Bellingham Farmer’s Market, Ruthi V
We are now taking entries for PAPO 09. Enter NOW! Deadline is July 31st.
Studio UFO Blue Horse Gallery City of Bellingham
4th Annual Downtown Bellingham Plein Air Paint Out Name______________________________________________________________ Address____________________________________________________________ City____________________________________State_______Zip____________ Hm ph___________________________cell ph____________________________ Email_______________________________________________________________ _________$35.00 Saturday & Sunday August 22 & 23, 10am-3pm Paid check #_________________Amount $_________________ Signature_________________________________________________
Make check payable to Trish Harding. Send this Entry form and your check
postmarked no later than August 15, 2009. Earlier entries are highly encouraged. Fill out completely and return entry in entirety, make a photocopy and keep one for your records. Sign the entry form. No refunds.
An exhibition of the work will be shown at Blue Horse Gallery, Artists’ Reception Friday Nov 6th, 6-10pm and will run through Nov 30. Entry fee will be used in part to advertise this event.
Prospectus available online at www.studioufo.net or trish.harding@studioufo.net or call 360 319-6115. This event is sponsored by Trish Harding School of Art at Studio UFO, Blue Horse Galleyr, and the City of Bellingham.
Jul 12 2009
Letters Alive ! An alphabet book of letters that come alive before your very eyes!
The first image for Letters Alive was started when our son, Ryan was born in 1977. I was so amazed with this baby that I could not believe my eyes. He so inspired me all of his life. I completed the final image about 1983.
The paintings were stored under the bed for many years until my husband found them and hung all 26 paintings in my studio. About 6 months ago we started up the project again to get it in a book format.
I was dissatisfied with the verses and re-wrote them all about 3 times. This was where Molly, our daughter comes into the picture. She is the kind of person that shines when she enters the room and finds the humor in everything. Together we are pretty wacky. You can see that in the verses. It’s just about having fun with words and pictures.
We debuted the book on what would have been Ryan’s 32nd birthday, June 5, 2009. Many people helped spearhead getting the book put together and ready for this important day, including Tom Harding, Carol Austin, and Susan Scott and Kathy Anderson.
I hope that you all get a chance to see the love in it and maybe purchase a copy for a loved one. I hope to look up and see many familiar faces in the audience at Village Books on Sunday July 19 at 4pm, too!
Ryan Alan Murray Triplett
June 5, 1977-Sept 7, 2008
For Molly & Ryan…Amazing!
Jul 03 2009
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 commitment 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 displayed now in front of my Studio. This painting depicts a 360 degree vision of Downtown Bellingham in 6 panels, each measuring 4×6 feet.
