SHOUTOUT FEATURE ARTICLE VOYAGE PHOENIX MAGAZINE

SHOUTOUT FEATURE ARTICLE
VOYAGE PHOENIX MAGAZINE

It was a wonderful surprise to be featured in Voyage Phoenix Magazine in their Shoutout Edition. 

In this edition I was asked about the progression of my art career as a small business owner along with the evolutionary process of my art throughout the years. I was also given the opportunity to recognize many people that have influenced my passion and success as an artist. 

I have also made my own personal shoutout to some of my favorite local hotspots in Utah along with a few amazing Utah artists and you can too. Within the article is a link to nominate an artist you believe deserves recognition.

Happy Thanksgivings 2020!

Happy Thanksgivings 2020!

Many Thanksgivings

To my family, friends, collectors, galleries and museums, THANK YOU! 2020 has been a year of resiliency, reflection, gratitude and silver linings. 

I am uplifted by the support I and so many have received thanks to everyone working to bolster the arts and artists.
To all those diligently working to keep gallery and museum doors open safely, thank you.
I am humbled, by the generosity of all the donors who give back to local museums and who collect art from local artist. 
Together we can do anything! 

“IT’S A FUNNY THING ABOUT LIFE, ONCE YOU BEGIN TO TAKE NOTE OF THE THINGS YOU ARE GRATEFUL FOR, YOU BEGIN TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE THINGS THAT YOU LACK.”

― Germany Kent

Within this November newsletter…work currently on exhibition, museum fundraising success, public collection acquisition, a few remaining oil paintings and, a little fall joy to share thanks to collectors who make being an artist possible… 

Currently on Exhibit
Springville Museum of Art, Spring Salon 
October 21, 2020 - January 13, 2021

Peaceful Easy Feeling, 16.5” x 16.5” Acrylic on Multi-Panel Acrylic Glass 
~Available~

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Stay In My Corner, 3D Etching and Painting on Aluminum, was recently exhibited and collected with a generous donation to the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art during a Brave New World Fundraiser. A special thanks to all donors of the UMOCA! You and your donation help keep the museum programing, exhibitions, artist residency and educational opportunities available to our local community.

Apparition, 3D Etching and Painting on Aluminum, was accepted into the Salt Lake County Fine Art Collection, Salt Lake County Arts and Culture Board Public Collection.
Thanks to all those who made this possible!

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Original Oil Paintings have been selling fast in 2020!
For the first ten years of my painting career I was devoted to mastering, as best I could, painting indirectly in oil on canvas. From Fauve to tonal colorations I found my voice in landscape painting, more often in the portrait of a single tree. I’m pleased that out of a collection of 250 oil paintings on canvas, only 32 remain. A few I have kept in my private collection and the rest I am making available to my collectors. If you are interested in adding to your collection please reach out to me. I love seeing these oil paintings find homes!

Here are a few oil paintings that found homes this fall…

Advice From A Tree found a home in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Bought through my website, sight unseen, and now this couple are happy collectors!
I am delighted it is the welcoming view of their main entry!
Thank you for making my work a part of your home!

Indian Summer found a home in Park City, UT in October when it was indeed still feeling a lot like summer!
Another humbling entry delight. I think the dog approves.
Thank you to your family and the dog!

Taking Time is a beautiful fall scene of a trail I and this collector run in Millcreek Canyon, UT.
A lovely shared outdoor experience between me and this family makes this painting a special piece to have in their collection, gracing their family room.
Thank you to your family!

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Hot as ever, my proprietary works on multi-panel acrylic glass. Each now has a Museum Quality TruVue top sheet enhancing the clarity and depth of the painting. 

Here are a few that have found homes this fall…..

Song Birds (Above) made its way into a collection with thanks to Rare Gallery in Jackson, WY!

Birds Eye View (Above) found a collector in San Diego with thanks to Rare Gallery in Jackson, WY!

Arles, my vision of Arles, France, where Van Gogh lived and worked for a time, found a home in South Carolina.
The painting now hangs above this couple’s fireplace mantle as if it was made specifically for their lovely home.
Arles added the perfect final touch!
Thank you for making this so!

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It can not be said enough! I am humbled and filled with gratitude for the blessing it is to be an artist and, that there are people like you who enjoy my work and are happy to make it a part of your family!
Thank you!

Wild Flowers, A Story and Found Inspiration

Wild Flowers

One Woman’s Story and an 
Artist’s Found Inspiration

Untitled, Oil on Canvas 24’ x 30” circa 1920
Kathryn Woodman Leighton (1875 - 1952)

Wild Flowers - An Homage to Kathryn Woodman Leighton
17” x 17” Acrylic on Multi-Panel Acrylic Glass

This is a personal story. A story that travels through time as if it were yesterday. A story perhaps familiar to many, told by my friend, an Author, Art Curator, Fine Art Consultant, Art Historian and Art Collector. A woman who has not only inspired me but the painting I interpreted above in an emotionally resonate way. Because of her sheer love, raw passion and deep desire for the works of Kathryn Woodman Leighton, that for her seem to elicit a power so real, the only answer is to own an original work so she can stare into it day after day and be reminded of a beautiful life then and now. 
~Please Read On~

“When I was a child and through high school, I spent all of my summers on my grandfather’s ranch in the most beautiful part of Montana. My grandfather used to take me irrigating with him. While he worked, I’d look for gold specks in the sand in the creek and catch water skippers. He’d tell me about the plants growing in the field, and along the river bank and on the hillside, they included Mules Ear, Indian Paint Brush (he told me the Indians used them to paint their teepees), Wild Iris, Flax, Wild Geranium, Delphiniums, Black Eyed Susans, Blue Aster, Buttercups, wild onions, and wild peppermint…I always had a piece of Sweet Timothy hanging from my mouth. I loved the taste and I imitated my grandfather who always chewed on one. When I was really young, he would bring me little bouquets from the field, later I would bring him bouquets.

During the summer, he had about 20 hired men working on the ranch during haying. One summer I found their empty Prince Albert tobacco cans by the bunkhouse and I collected them to use as vases. I placed a tobacco tin full of wild flowers at each of their plates for dinner. All the water leaked out, but I remember they liked the gesture and thanked me in their quiet way. Some of my uncles would tease me about the “weeds” I had collected, but for me, if it bloomed, it was a beautiful flower.

When I was about 20, I moved to Germany for 12 years. I spent the weekends on a beautiful farm in Bavaria. It was a paradise for wild flowers, wild herbs and roots. It was there that a woman from a local farm befriended me. She was known in the area as a benevolent witch. There was something to it because when I was out collecting wildflowers, she seemed to appear from nowhere and she’d tell me about the flowers and then she was gone. Schafrarbe (Yarrow) she said, was “good for women’s problems.” And she showed me a little plant with yellow petals, Blutwurtz (Blood Root), and how to harvest the root and cure it in schnapps for a good digestive. A few flowers I never picked were Siber Thistle or Edelwiess, they were rare and I just enjoyed them. The list of wild flowers in Germany is too long, but I loved them.

The closest thing we have in Utah is the magnificent fields of flowers around Alta in the spring. I don’t pick these flowers because they are too rare in Utah and I feel they need protection. In this respect, Utah is a desert for me. Some of the flowers that do bloom, like Flax, or Mules Ear wilt in an afternoon and aren’t good for bouquets.

The painting by Kathryn Woodman Leighton symbolizes all of these beautiful memories for me. She painted in Montana every summer and these are the flowers she would have found wild, growing everywhere. The beautiful blue crockpot is used as a vase for the Indian Paintbrush, wild Lupine, Black Eyed Susans, Blue Aster and Larkspur. The flowers comprise the primary colors, red, blue, and yellow with secondary colors of green and purple to fill in the spaces. For an artist, this must be a luscious subject to paint. The bouquet’s composition is not even, it was a spontaneous arrangement. It is not overthought or too well considered, which gives it authenticity and freedom from pretense, much the same as the flowers themselves. They are wild and enjoy an uncultivated existence.”
~Donna L. Poulton, Ph.D.

Donna’s Grandfather, Dewey Marchesseault, with two of his colorful sisters at their cabin in Montana, circa 1960!

“A celebrated Indian portrait and landscape painter. Kathryn Woodman Leighton created panoramic landscapes especially big scenes of glaciers. Having been told about Glacier National Park by Charles Russell, Kathryn spent much time in that region beginning in 1922. Also doing floral still life and landscapes, she repeatedly depicted her favorite subject, which was the desert in bloom. 
~Abbreviated Biography from the Archives of askART~

How wonderful 

That art can be an escape for the soul 

Filling us with memories of a long forgot past 

Connecting us with the present 

Reuniting us with long ago 

As we let ourselves get lost in 

The creations of others.

~Janell James~

NEW: TRU VUE Museum Quality Acrylic Glass top sheet adds a museum grade archival superiority, protecting the work from UV rays, scratching and significantly reducing glare for a more crisp, clear viewing experience.