FROM IDAHO TO ITALY

On Friday, March 14th, I will be showing my first artwork in my home town of Boise, Idaho, since 1970, at the Woman of Steel Gallery in Old Town Garden City, directly adjacent to Boise. Six original pastels (mostly painted plein air) from Idaho to Italy, with stops in between, will be displayed along with other artists' work in the gallery.

While I cannot be in attendance for this opening and show, I will be there in mind and spirit. I hope any Idaho friends, patrons and family will be able to stop-by the gallery on Friday, March 14th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM for the opening.

We are in the midst of final preparations and logistics for a 3 month painting trip to Portugal, Spain, France, Croatia and Italy beginning March 29th. We will be traveling mostly around the coastlines of these countries to do plein air painting, with side trips into many hill towns. Watch my web site www.windsweptstudios.com and please pass this message onto friends who might have an interest in seeing new works as they progress. I will be doing ‘nearly daily' blogs and photos of actual paintings as the trip progresses and will be showing these new works in 3 galleries upon my return starting in early July: Crow Valley Gallery, at Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington, The Gottlieb Gallery, Portland, Oregon and Woman of Steel Gallery in Boise, Idaho, next summer and fall. Openings and show dates will appear on my web site soon.

Pictured here is a piece titled “Hyde Park Revisited” from studies done last June on a trip to Boise. Much of the work in this show has been done similarly, either on-site or from studies as I travel around the northwest plus a couple of my favorite painting spots in Italy.

I am very pleased to be able to exhibit work in Irene Deelys' impressive gallery in Old Town Garden City and appreciate this opportunity to present my latest pieces. I am especially excited to be showing work in my home town again and look forward to hearing back from anyone who visits the show!


Woman of Steel Gallery is located at 3640 Chinden Blvd., Old Town Garden City, Idaho.

Gallery hours are: 11-5 Tuesday through Saturdays (open until 9:00 p.m. on Fridays).

Phone: 208-703-6461 email: IDeelinart@aol.com

I will be showing new works from my plein-air painting trips around the world with 6 other artists, through December, at Scott Milo Gallery in Anacortes, Washington. Opening reception for the artists will be Friday, December 7^th from 6-8 p.m. during the Anacortes First Friday Art Walk. The exhibit runs through January 22, 2008.

Other pieces include an Anacortes street scene and various new paintings from around the Pacific Northwest and Italy. I hope to see many of you at the reception next Friday and do have a wonderful holiday!

Scott Milo Gallery is located at 420 Commercial Avenue, just across the street form The Majestic Hotel. Regular gallery hours are: Monday-Saturday, 10:30-4:30. The Gallery will be open every Sunday through Christmas. 360-293-6938. Visit their web site: www.scottmilo.com

Steve Hill

Announces his first

One Man Show

at

Gottlieb Gallery – Portland, Oregon

“Travels with a Plein Air Artist”

An eclectic mix of paintings from Italy to the San Juan Islands and lots of stops in between

On Thursday, October 4^th I will be present at The Gottlieb Gallery in Portland, Oregon for the opening of my first One Man Show. Reception is from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

 

The show hangs through Friday October 26^th and I will have over 20 new works on display at the gallery. The opening coincides with the First Thursday Art Walk. I hope to see many of you at the opening and personally invite you to come to their beautiful gallery to see my latest works.

 

Gottlieb Gallery is located in downtown Portland at 220 SW Yamhill.

 

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11 AM – 5 PM.

503-241-1070

www.gottliebgallery.com

Portland, Oregon Gallery News Update

. . . When one door closes, another will open.

After 8 years serving the Portland fine arts community with flair and character, Yoshida’s Fine Art Gallery in Portland, Oregon, closed their doors on June 11, 2007. I would like to thank Linda Yoshida for the rare opportunity to exhibit at the gallery and to be involved in the annual “Observing Oregon” paint-outs and group shows.

My very special thanks go to the incredible gallery staff: mainly Kevin Weaver, David Baumann and Cherise Miller for 2 years of close affiliation plus successful sales and connections with clients while representing my artwork at the gallery. Fare thee well to all of you – it was a grand experience in so many ways!



New Portland Gallery


I am quite pleased and much honored to announce my new gallery affiliation at The Gottlieb Gallery in downtown Portland.

Since purchasing the business in the early 90’s, Julie Gottlieb has proudly positioned her gallery as one of the Pacific Northwest’s leading venues of the highest quality fine art.

Her personal approach to successful pairings of quality artwork, artists and clients is not only common knowledge in the Portland art scene, but comes from careful selections that rely upon her innate ability to identify and cultivate excellence in fine art at every level.

Visit the gallery website: www.gottliebgallery.com to see and experience the artwork and artists firsthand. I look forward to re-connecting with my Portland area clients and collectors at:



The Gottlieb Gallery
220 SW Yamhill
Portland, Oregon, 97204.
(503) 241-1070.
email: gottgall@msn.com

This Thursday, May 3rd, both Judy and I will be in attendance at Yoshida's Fine Art Gallery in Portland, Oregon, for the opening of the invitational show “Urbanscapes, Dusk till Dawn.” I hope to see many of you at the gallery for this fantastic show of work from 9 artists dealing with subject matter from the twilight hours of cities from all over the world. You may even find yourself walking down some of those sidewalks, about to cross a neon bathed street, floating the canals, riding the rails or just staring wistfully at back-lit buildings and storefronts.

Visit their web site www.yoshidagallery.com to preview the work, but better yet, stop by either at the opening or during the month of May to see this show first hand. I was especially pleased to make paintings on a theme that gave me some new challenges - I do live on an island, you know. It has also provided new directions to my more rural ‘regular' work, as well.

Pictured here is a piece titled “Rainy Night, Portland” painted last month. I also have pieces from Italy, England and Boston in this show, plus one of my personal favorites "The First and Last Chance Tavern" painted from Judy's class re-union in Ellensburg, WA last summer.

It's a joy to exhibit and work alongside so many talented artists especially with a gallery that really makes interesting things happen! A lot of thought goes into planning and coordinating shows like this (especially by the gallery) and even more preparation and work time by participating artists who could just sit back and say “New Works by Blah Blah”. This show has substance WAY beyond the mundane. Come see for yourselves!

On Friday, April 27th, there will be an opening at The Colin Goode Gallery of Fine Art in Lopez Village for our first annual “Miniatures” show, featuring 6 artists, all with pieces no larger than a 5” x 7” image area. The opening reception will be from 5-7 p.m. and you are invited to come view some great small art. All 2-D pieces in this show are priced at $350 or less, which is a great way to start or enhance your art collection with very affordable matted and framed originals.

One of the pastels I will have in this show is pictured here “October Sun/Flower Island” and is one of 2 ‘chiaro-scuro’ pieces I have for this show . . . in addition to some ‘plein air’ island theme pieces.


The other artists in this show are: Colin Goode, Daphne Morris, Karen Hattman, Bob Riggins and Matt Miller (Shaw Island artist). Refreshments will be served and live music will be provided by Leta Currie Marshall and Ginny Keith. I will be at the reception together with other artists from the group and hope to see any of you who might be on Lopez this coming weekend!

I will be teaching a 3 day plein air pastel workshop at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle on June 4-6, 2007.

If you are interested in learning to take your studio skills outside and paint on-site in pure pigment pastel, this will be an excellent opportunity to spend three days on and around the docks working from live subject matter. Even if you are a beginner at pastels, this will be a good workshop to learn plein air basics.

I will be doing one live demo per day and will be giving students individual attention as they work on exercises after the demos.

You will learn to paint successfully in a "real life" setting and have a lot of fun in the process!

To sign-up for this class, contact Mareth Warren, program director, at marethw@comcast.net. You can also visit the Center for Wooden Boats website at www.cwb.org and click on the 2007 catalog. My class description is on page 14.

My newest work will be featured at Scott Milo Gallery in Anacortes, Washington, with an opening artists' reception during the First Friday Art Walk on April 6th.

Ten new pieces are from my most recent plein air painting trips to New England, Canada, Italy and of course, the Pacific Northwest. Every painting in this show was painted on-site, or from painted studies made on location.

I continue to pursuit and refine my plein air painting techniques with an emphasis on grabbing the light and weather conditions while providing the viewer with a sense of time and place through the medium of pure pigment pastel.

The pastel medium has become my favorite as it creates so many facets and refractions when it's mixed on the surface of the paper-and holds color permanence indefinitely. It doesn't have to dry (and turn dark with age), nor fade because it's been mixed with water or chemicals. It's really what the cave painters used and it's the exact same pigments used today to manufacture all other paints (oils, acrylics, watercolors, etc.,) but in the purest form!


I hope to see many of you at this opening and look forward to showing my latest work. This show runs through April 24th.

The "Seasons of Change" show featuring 12 gallery artists will open on Thursday, October 5th at Yoshida's Fine Art Gallery in Portland. "Springs Late Bloom" (Lavender Farm) is pictured here and was featured in a glossy ad in the last issue of "Fine Arts Connoisseur" magazine.

The show will highlight the 4 seasons, with my selected work from the Pacific Northwest and Italy included in the show.

You can visit the exhibit gallery on-line at www.yoshidagallery.com to see some of the artwork submitted for this show . . . but better yet, visit the gallery in person at 10th and Davis Streets in The Pearl District.

We're finally winding-down from the Labor Day Weekend Studio Tour which had a record turn-out of over 400 people through our home and studio in 2 days. The new addition to our home/gallery allowed 27 originals to be displayed as well as dozens of giclee prints out for full view (not in print bins).


I had many questions and comments about the works in progress which were on 3 easels throughout the exhibit,enough that I will be doing "live" plein-air demo pieces at next years studio tour.

We are already planning for the next tour as well as "Open Studio" weekends in the summer of 2007. Please remember, if you wish to stop-by anytime you are visiting Lopez Island, simply call or e-mail. (360) 468-2557 or islandartist@centurytel.net ... you and your guests are always welcome to view works-in-progress and have a private tour of my studio and home gallery.

My work is always available to view at the following galleries: Crow Valley Pottery, Orcas Island; Colin Goode Gallery, Lopez Island; Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA; Pacific Marine Gallery, Bellingham, WA; Yoshida's Fine Art Gallery, Portland, OR; and River Stone Gallery, Ennis, Montana. All of these galleries feature exquisite works by other artists as well and are well worth a stop anytime you are in those areas!!


I'd like to thank all who came to our studio and hope to see you next year, as well. I'll be sending "blogs" of the next few art events I’m participating in around the Northwest as they occur.

The 10th Annual Labor Day Weekend Studio Tour will be this Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 2 & 3rd on Lopez Island. I have dozens of new originals and giclee prints from my recent two trips to Italy as well as sojourns around the San Juans and Pacific Northwest on display.

It's an easy 2 mile walk or drive from the ferry landing to our home at 783 Port Stanley Road. Go south on the only road from the ferry landing and turn left in about a mile onto Port Stanley Rd., just across from the entrance to Odlin County Park. Proceed east one mile to our home which is on the left side of the road (water side) just 3 drive ways past Shoreland Drive.

There are 23 studios and 32 artists participating in this annual 2 day event. I'm posting two recent plein air pieces that I painted on Lopez this month. Both will be at the studio and have matching giclee prints as well.


My originals are all framed with high quality wood mouldings, real linen archival double mats, spacers and museum grade glass for the best possible presentation and are ready to hang in your art collection.

My pastels can be shipped anywhere in the world in special "Airfloat" shipping containers with a "made for pastel" triple foam layer for protection. I've had excellent results shipping this way with no breakage, dust or damage to any contents, in spite of the fact that some shipping companies use handling methods akin to a cub bear wearing boxing gloves or a soccer player on steroids. In fact, these conainers are so-o-o soft, I'm thinking of using one to sit on while I paint next time!

I hope to see you this weekend and as always, welcome visitor's to the studio by appointment. Simply call 360-468-2557 or e-mail: islandartist@centurytel.net

The Friday (July 21) opening at Crow Valley was very successful for all artists involved. Red dots were posted everywhere including on two of my originals that evening. "Preservation Path" pictured here plus one other which I will post on the site later, as it was purchased as a surprise for another party.




I was able to paint a live demo piece for show-goers, with the fields of Crow Valley forming a luminescent backdrop in late afternoon.






That piece is available for purchase during the show which runs through July 30th. There are still some great paintings available by all artists who participated in the "Home and Abroad" theme for this show. My work focuses on Orcas Island and Italy landscape and marine paintings.





Crow Valley Pottery is open 7 days a week. Go to their web-site www.crowvalleypottery.com for details.

I will be exhibiting 20 new pieces at Crow Valley Pottery on Orcas Island, including the piece "Bottom's Up" pictured here.

The show opens Friday July 21st with an artists' reception from 4-7 p.m. Please visit their web site: www.crowvalley.com for show details.

In addition, I will be participating in the annual "Observing Oregon" 3 day invitational paint-out at Yoshida's Fine Art Gallery in Portland, Oregon. There will be 10 artists altogether painting en plein air at three different sites during the event, including: The Sandy River, near Troutdale, Sauvies Island in the Columbia River and downtown Portland. The paint-out will culminate with an opening at Yoshida's Gallery during the first Thursday art walk on August 3rd, with an artists' reception from 5-9 p.m. Over 25,000 people come-out for these art walks and visit several dozen galleries. It's well worth the experience and the trip for art lovers anywhere and I hope to see some of you there! Please visit the gallery web site: www.yoshidagallery.com for show details.

I am participating in a new exhibit at Yoshida Gallery in Portland called "Fruit of the Vine" together with 18 other gallery artists. I hope you can come to the First Thursday Artwalk at The Pearl District in Portland on May 4th to see my newest pieces for this show, which will hang until May 28th.

The show coincides with Oregon's Annual Spring Wine Event and should prove to be a large and diverse collection of interpretive works on the subject. My particular pieces are all from our recent painting trip to Italy.


Check-out the show on the gallery web-site www.yoshidagallery.com


Yoshida Gallery is loacted at 206 NW 10th in Portland, Oregon 1-800-667-7655. Gallery hours are: Tuesday-Saturday 10-6 and Sunday Noon-5 p.m. Enjoy a lunch with a nice glass of wine from Italy (and beyond) at their bistro while you view this show. The piece pictured here is titled "Grape Harvest, Manarola, Italy"

This Friday, April 5th, will be the second artwalk at Scott Milo Gallery where I am showing as the featured artist. I will have two new pieces from the Italy series "Sommelier" and "Near Siena" in addition to pieces now showing at the gallery.




I will be in attendance for the artwalk and look forward to seeing all who can make it! The gallery walk is from 6-9 p.m. and Scott Milo Gallery is located at the corner of 4th and Commercial Avenue, in old-town Anacortes.
Get Directions to Scott Milo Gallery

I am very pleased to announce that I am now showing at Crow Valley Pottery, Orcas Islands' most venerable and finest venue for visual artists in all mediums. Presently, I have 5 pieces at the gallery (from the Italy series and some from the islands) with plans to add more over the up-coming season, culminating with a big show on July 21st called "Here and There" . . . which, if you know anything at all about Jeffri Coleman and Michael Rivkin's world travels, promises to be an extraordinary event.

Do check their web-site: www.crowvalleypottery.com and keep track of this season's events at the gallery. It's a joy to be able to show and participate with so many talented artists from all over the world, especially in a setting that fosters excellence and unsurpassed experience in selecting fine art with an eclectic spirit.

Watch for announcements closer to show time and contact the gallery if you would like to attend this event.

I have 8 new pieces showing at Scott Milo Gallery in Anacortes, Washington through April 25th. The opening reception was during the first Friday artwalk that drew a crowd of several hundred people to the galleries in Anacortes. I'm posting two of the images (one from the Italy series and one from the northwest series)to view here.


Giclee prints will be available for all pieces in this show upon request. Prices for the giclees are from $225 - $385, depending on size and will be sold only through the gallery. I hope you have as much fun looking at my new works as I had painting them.

I am having a special one man show at Macy*s downtown Seattle store through January 31, with 16 original pastels. Work is from my Pacific Northwest and Italy series of plein air paintings. Macy*s Gallery is located on the 6th (skybridge) floor of the store.

All paintings have been captioned with location/dates and all were done either on-site (plein air) or from drawings and color studies made on-site.

Here is a sample wall of work (click on the image for larger view)from my exhibit. Information to how contact the artist, as well as prices are also at the gallery. This show was made possible by The Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters and Macy*s store.

Special note: Giclee prints of most of these originals are also available directly from the artist and range in price from $225 to $385 each. Prints are made in very limited editions of 25 per series. The series consists of 25 full size and 25 half size or three-quarter size prints. Click on the link below for a map and directions to the store.

Get directions to the exhibit

Steve Hill's Art Newsletter, December 2005

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

JANUARY SHOW
AT MACY*S IN SEATTLE

This exhibit opportunity just came-up last week. I will be having a solo show at Macy*s downtown Seattle store in their gallery which is on the 6th floor. I will have newer plein air pieces from both Italy and the Pacific Northwest on display and for sale from January 5th (coincides with the first Thursday Art Walk) through January 31st. There will be 15-18 framed and matted originals.

The show was made available to members of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters for the months of January and February only. Another painting group (The Women Painters of Washington) has the gallery space during the other 10 months. I hope any of you who are visiting Seattle or shopping in the downtown area will be able to take a break and see the new works.

The store address is: 3rd and Pine Streets, Seattle. They have a large parking (Macy*s Garage) directly across the street from the store. It's easiest to take the Sky Bridge directly from the parking lot to the store which puts you on the floor with the gallery - located in a corner next to Crystal & Jewelry.

Get directions to the exhibit