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Winslow Homer Watercolor Exhibit at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

Wnslow Homer watercolor at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

Wnslow Homer watercolor at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park is a 210 acre park that encompasses some of Florida’s loveliest landsacpe and the headwaters of the Homosassa River.  It is also a rehabilitation center for injured and orphaned West Indian manatees.  More information of Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park can be found on the Homosassa Park web site .

There is also a permanent exhibit of highlighting Winslow Homer’s 1904 watercolors of the Homosassa River. Winslow Homer painted eleven known watercolors during his 1904 stay of approximately a month. The new park exhibit is on permanent display in the Florida Room at the Visitor Center and is the result of two years’ research and gathering of interpretive materials. There is no admission charge to see the Winslow Homer in Homosassa exhibit.  Another Winslow Homer watercolor painting is seen below.

Winslow Homer watercolor painting of the Homosassa River

Winslow Homer watercolor painting of the Homosassa River

The Winslow Homer Exhibit

Winslow Homer Paintings

Art News – Watercolor – Architect Frederick Fisher Watercolor Exhibiton

Watercolor news - Architect Frederick Fisher Exhibition

April 24 – May 22, 2010

6018 Wilshire Buolevard, Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture (ECAA) opened the Gallery’s inaugural solo exhibition by renowned contemporary West-coast architect Frederick Fisher (principal, Frederick Fisher and Partners of Los Angeles). Entitled Frederick Fisher: Thinking by Hand, this exhibition of new and recent watercolors explores the form making process and composition strategies Fisher employs when envisioning and creating proposals for a wide variety of potential architectural commissions. Surprisingly, this is Fisher’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and is the gallery’s first solo exhibition for an architect. His jewel-like watercolors are on view through May 22, 2010…………………read more from Art Knowledge News

Edward Cella + Architecture

Watercolor News – Highlights from the permanent collection – D’Amour Museum of Fine Art – Spingfield Museums

Watercolor News - Winslow Homer’s painting - The New Novel

Watercolor Highlights from the Permanent Collection

October 29th, 2009 through October 24th, 2010

Starr Watercolor Gallery, First Floor

Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts

The D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts began collecting watercolor paintings and works on paper in the early 1930s when it first opened to the public. Because watercolors are subject to fading when exposed to light for extended periods, the paintings in the exhibition are shown only rarely.

Winslow Homer’s important painting The New Novel is among the most well-known works in the museum’s collection. Long respected for his oil paintings, Homer’s interest in watercolor emerged in the early 1870s. The painting was shown by the artist in the 1877 annual exhibition of the American Watercolor Society and marked the beginning of his mature style. His early watercolors depict America’s rural life as well as the seaside. The New Novel documents the artist’s preoccupation with a young woman thought to have been linked to an unrequited love affair……………… read more from D’Amour Museum of Fine Art

Art News Watercolor – Current Nordic Watercolour Museum exhibit – Elina Merenmies

Elina Merenmies - Portrait of a Sister, 2006 - Ink on handmade paper, 45 x 38 cm

nordiska akvarellmuseet

Södra hamnen 6

471 32 Skärhamn, Sweden

The Nordic Watercolour Museum presents an exhibition of the work of Elina Merenmies  – Mar 21 – May 2, 2010

– one of Finland’s leading contemporary artists – and her dark but fascinating world. In a strange but characteristic way the art of Elina Merenmies follows in the footsteps of figurative tradition. She sketches with Indian or regular ink on paper and paints in oil and tempera on canvas and board. At times she chooses to combine acrylic and oils. The size of her works ranges from small drawings to gigantic paintings. She has been represented in the collections of the Nordic Watercolour Museum for many years and has participated in several of the museum’s collective exhibitions.  …………………..Read More from Nordic Watercolour Museum.

Elina Merenmies – An artist of surprises – Galerie Anhava

Elina Merenmies is a painter of fantastical visions whose art defies categorization. Following its own logic, her oeuvre moves in the border zones of expressionism, surrealism and raw art. At times she paints with a combination of tempera and oil, at times she makes ink washes, and sometimes it is time for acrylic painting.

Extract from an interview which was publishedin Kiasma magazine no 33 – 2006 vol 9.

Introducing this year’s Ars Fennica candidates

Elina Merenmies is one of the four candidates for the Ars Fennica award, Finland’s foremost distiction in the visual arts. The winner of the 2007 Ars Fennica award will be chosen in January by Glenn Scott Wright from Victoria Miro Gallery.

Artists Elina Brotherus (EB), Markus Kåhre (MK), Elina Merenmies (EM) and Anna Tuori (AT) have replied to frequently asked questions about creating art.

What does being an artist mean to you?
EM: In financial terms, and in terms of health, the pace of work and many other things, a commitment to art means giving up a certain amount of comfort, humane working hours and often even making allowances in terms of occupational safety. On the whole, however, being an artist means enjoying one’s work.

Where do you get the ideas for your works?
EM: From enthusiasm. It has very little to do with inspiration, but enthusiasm and my faith in what I do remain constant. I take a great interest in the reality of people in this world, and on the other hand I have a lot of visions that are connected with it or to some specific part of it.

How do you work?
EM: Like crazy, ha ha. I do try to work in a way that allows me to retain a strong feeling that I am also living my life. That I have the ability to live my life. That includes being able to enjoy what I do, coffee breaks, the sound of the rain, for instance, and everything that an artist’s work is. In other words, I live when I work.

What is the significance of the technique you use?
EM: It has great significance. I use a number of different techniques. The use of a specific paint, material, binding agent or colour is a very tangible thing. The way the material spreads, or some other particular characteristic that affects the coincidental movement in the picture is crucial. Especially in tempera paintings, an organic feel is essential.

………………. Read More from Galerie Anhava on Elina Merenmies.

Art News Watercolor – American Watercolor Society 143rd Annual International Exhibition

AWS 143rd exhibition - Joyce Hicks- This Way to the Vineyard

American Watercolor Society

143rd Annual International Exhibition

April 6, 2010 – May 2, 2010

Salmagundi Club – New York

47 Fifth Ave. at 12th Street

The American Watercolor Society is a nonprofit membership organization that began in 1866 to promote the art of watercolor painting in America.Each year the Society holds a juried  exhibition of watercolors from artists throughout the world. 

Click here for hours for the 143rd Annual International Exhibitionand 142nd Travelling Exhibition Schedule.

Art News – Gerhard Mantz exhibition at The gallery [DAM] Berlin

Gerhard Mantz - "Allgemeine Obereinstimmung", 2009 - Ink on canvas

The gallery [DAM]Berlin

Tucholskystr. 37

10117 Berlin
Germany

Exhibition: 27. March – 26. May 2010
Preview: Friday, 26. March, 7-9 pm
The artist will be present at the opening.
A catalogue with an introductory text of Domenico Quaranta will be released for the exhibition.

Gallery [DAM]Berlin presents a solo exhibition of Gerhard Mantz with new virtual landscapes in Black and White.
In the series, the viewer enters the Earth after a major event. Whether it has been an explosion, that has covered the forests under a perfect thin layer of ashes, or a complete freeze of nature due to cold and frost, is not defined. The places that Gerhard Mantz shows in his virtual landscapes are not real places but landscapes of the soul. The strength of the pieces lies in their alienation and their ambivalence. Due to their brightness, they seem fragile and magic. Since the series is only executed in black and white, the light contributes an important part to the composition. It can be promising but equally be the blinding light of an explosion, a harbinger of a desaster………………….. Read more from Art Knodledge News.

Gallery [DAM]Berlin – Gerhard Mantz Exhibition

Art News – Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America

Pavel Tchelitchew - "Head of Spring" gouache and watercolor on paper 19 x 25 1/8 inches

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America

24 West 57 Street, New York, NY

March 13 – May 29, 2010

NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, the gallery’s first exhibition in over a decade dedicated to the influence of surrealism on American figural and abstract art. Spanning two decades from 1931 to 1952, the exhibition features painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage by thirty-two artists………more from Art Knowledge News

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

Art News – Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Presents – My Garden Pets: Work by Emilie Clark

My Garden Pets : Works by Emilie Clark

BROOKLYN, NY.- A series of lush, fluid watercolor and graphite amalgamations of flora and fauna are at the heart of My Garden Pets, a major new installation by New York-based artist Emilie Clark at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden (BBG). In the exhibition—on view from March 6 through May 23, 2010 as a featured presentation of BBG’s 2010 Centennial Celebration—Clark explores the work of the 19th-century American naturalist, Mary Treat, and the concept of ‘the beneficial insect.’…… read more at Art Knowledge News.

Also 11 of Emilie Clark’s work can be seen on the web site of Brooklyn Botanical Garden (BBG)


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