Artwalk: The Painting Event
March 26, 2010 – March 27, 2010
K Newby Gallery Gallery
In a time of change and a world of opportunity, we are creating, innovating, always reaching… and rising to new heights TOGETHER. Join us in the K. Newby Gallery for a gathering of the top painters working today in Southwestern Art. The K. Newby Gallery is honored to showcase a group exhibit of artwork in gallery. This show extends through the end of March. The exhibit features the work of several local Tubac artists – Barbara Hill, Tom Hill, David Simons, and Nicholas Wilson. Santa Fe artists, Louisa McElwain and David DeVary, are also included in the exhibition.
“True to its name, the exhibition reflects a community of artists from diverse backgrounds working within their own points of view to become a stronger and more powerful voice together, capturing this exciting time in history.” Says Kim Roseman, owner of K. Newby Gallery.
A reception for the artists will be held from 1:00 – 4:00pm on Saturday, March 26st. The reception will feature wine and cheese. Artists will be available during the reception to talk with guests and discuss their work.
More information about the artists listed below:
David DeVary is the first to acknowledge that his paintings are not historically accurate depictions of cowboy life in the American West in the 1900s. "In actuality, cowboys led a rough, dangerous and anything-but-glamorous existence," he says. The frontier that this artist explores draws more on the western movies of the '50s, starring matinée-idol cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry; his upbringing as a Catholic which "gave me the idea of creating modern icons of the figures we hold sacred"; and a highly successful, thirty-year career in the advertising business.
Barbara Hill grew up in rural Kansas and her love of the outdoors, nature and animals carries over into her paintings, both in feeling and subject matter. She brings a breath of fresh, country air to her beautiful paintings.
“My goals in painting are to portray to the viewer those special moments in an animal’s life – the time, the color and light, the feeling I have for it – then express that feeling in a creative, painterly way.”
Tom Hill has traveled to over 60 countries - painting, teaching and gathering material for paintings. He has as authored six books, all about painting, color and travel. Tom has taught over 300 painting workshops, throughout the States and overseas, and has participated in group and one-man shows in leading museums and galleries, including The Honolulu Academy of Arts.The Los Angles Artists Association, The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Academy of Design, NYC, The National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City, The Autry National Center, Los Angeles, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, the Tucson Museum of Art, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Etc. Tom was elected a life-time, honorary member of the American Watercolor Society and was elected a full academician in the National Academy of Design.
Louisa McElwain has more than 20 years of painting outdoors in New Mexico behind her. She has developed the technical skill, familiarity with patterns of weather and light, and ever deepening connection with the land that allow her to plunge into the creative experience. The resulting painting leaves the viewer with a unique understanding of what it’s like when sky, clouds, wind, arroyos, and mountains fill up the senses.
“It’s like dancing to the tempo of the evolving day,” she says, describing the very physical experience of painting outdoors. “A painting is like frozen choreography, like a ballet that you can see all in one moment. It’s made of marks that are gestures made through time to the rhythms of nature. Every day has a different kind of rhythm. On some days the wind is a big factor, on others its insects or heat or cold.”
For years McElwain has been known for using only palette knives to apply paint, a technique that allows her to work swiftly and precisely. It was a need for haste that first gave her the idea of trading in brushes for knives. On the shore of the Chesapeake Bay many years ago, the artist was in the middle of a painting when she realized the sun was dropping quickly. She scooped some paint onto a palette knife and spread it on the canvas. She was delighted with the lushness of color and texture, not to mention the ability to capture the scene before the light was gone.
David Simons was born in Ontario, Canada in 1951. In 1984 he moved to Haifa, Israel to work as a construction supervisor on major projects at the Baha‘i World Centre. It was in Israel that he began painting, at the age of 33.
David is a self-taught artist. Having started as a watercolorist, he now prefers painting in oil. He is primarily a landscape artist but also enjoys still life and portrait painting.David has lived in Tubac, Arizona since 1993. His work has won acclaim in the southwestern United States and is collected internationally. David is a member of Oil Painters of America. He is also a distinguished Artist Member of the Tucson Plein Air Painters’ Society, and one of the founding members of PASSA (Plein Air Painters’ Society of Southern AZ). He is also amember of the American Impressionist Society.
Nicholas Wilson is a visionary painter and sculptor. He is widely recognized as one of the top 10 wildlife painters in America. Strong interest in nature at a young age led to Wilson's development as a nationally recognized artist today. As Curator of Exhibits at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in the early 70's, his abilities and sensitivities were further enhanced. Wilson's artwork is in private and corporate collections across the United States. His work has been exhibited in museums in the states and abroad -- Smithsonian, National Geographic Society, London Museum of Natural History and the Scotland Museum of Natural History. He is also published in various magazines and books. Wilson is a self-taught artist and has lived in Arizona for 33 years.
“True to its name, the exhibition reflects a community of artists from diverse backgrounds working within their own points of view to become a stronger and more powerful voice together, capturing this exciting time in history.” Says Kim Roseman, owner of K. Newby Gallery.
A reception for the artists will be held from 1:00 – 4:00pm on Saturday, March 26st. The reception will feature wine and cheese. Artists will be available during the reception to talk with guests and discuss their work.
More information about the artists listed below:
David DeVary is the first to acknowledge that his paintings are not historically accurate depictions of cowboy life in the American West in the 1900s. "In actuality, cowboys led a rough, dangerous and anything-but-glamorous existence," he says. The frontier that this artist explores draws more on the western movies of the '50s, starring matinée-idol cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry; his upbringing as a Catholic which "gave me the idea of creating modern icons of the figures we hold sacred"; and a highly successful, thirty-year career in the advertising business.
Barbara Hill grew up in rural Kansas and her love of the outdoors, nature and animals carries over into her paintings, both in feeling and subject matter. She brings a breath of fresh, country air to her beautiful paintings.
“My goals in painting are to portray to the viewer those special moments in an animal’s life – the time, the color and light, the feeling I have for it – then express that feeling in a creative, painterly way.”
Tom Hill has traveled to over 60 countries - painting, teaching and gathering material for paintings. He has as authored six books, all about painting, color and travel. Tom has taught over 300 painting workshops, throughout the States and overseas, and has participated in group and one-man shows in leading museums and galleries, including The Honolulu Academy of Arts.The Los Angles Artists Association, The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Academy of Design, NYC, The National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City, The Autry National Center, Los Angeles, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, the Tucson Museum of Art, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Etc. Tom was elected a life-time, honorary member of the American Watercolor Society and was elected a full academician in the National Academy of Design.
Louisa McElwain has more than 20 years of painting outdoors in New Mexico behind her. She has developed the technical skill, familiarity with patterns of weather and light, and ever deepening connection with the land that allow her to plunge into the creative experience. The resulting painting leaves the viewer with a unique understanding of what it’s like when sky, clouds, wind, arroyos, and mountains fill up the senses.
“It’s like dancing to the tempo of the evolving day,” she says, describing the very physical experience of painting outdoors. “A painting is like frozen choreography, like a ballet that you can see all in one moment. It’s made of marks that are gestures made through time to the rhythms of nature. Every day has a different kind of rhythm. On some days the wind is a big factor, on others its insects or heat or cold.”
For years McElwain has been known for using only palette knives to apply paint, a technique that allows her to work swiftly and precisely. It was a need for haste that first gave her the idea of trading in brushes for knives. On the shore of the Chesapeake Bay many years ago, the artist was in the middle of a painting when she realized the sun was dropping quickly. She scooped some paint onto a palette knife and spread it on the canvas. She was delighted with the lushness of color and texture, not to mention the ability to capture the scene before the light was gone.
David Simons was born in Ontario, Canada in 1951. In 1984 he moved to Haifa, Israel to work as a construction supervisor on major projects at the Baha‘i World Centre. It was in Israel that he began painting, at the age of 33.
David is a self-taught artist. Having started as a watercolorist, he now prefers painting in oil. He is primarily a landscape artist but also enjoys still life and portrait painting.David has lived in Tubac, Arizona since 1993. His work has won acclaim in the southwestern United States and is collected internationally. David is a member of Oil Painters of America. He is also a distinguished Artist Member of the Tucson Plein Air Painters’ Society, and one of the founding members of PASSA (Plein Air Painters’ Society of Southern AZ). He is also amember of the American Impressionist Society.
Nicholas Wilson is a visionary painter and sculptor. He is widely recognized as one of the top 10 wildlife painters in America. Strong interest in nature at a young age led to Wilson's development as a nationally recognized artist today. As Curator of Exhibits at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in the early 70's, his abilities and sensitivities were further enhanced. Wilson's artwork is in private and corporate collections across the United States. His work has been exhibited in museums in the states and abroad -- Smithsonian, National Geographic Society, London Museum of Natural History and the Scotland Museum of Natural History. He is also published in various magazines and books. Wilson is a self-taught artist and has lived in Arizona for 33 years.
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