Andrea Pratt - oceans ten

oceans ten, originally uploaded by didrooglie.

More splendor than summer can hold. These pieces are available at our shop. Originals folks, and beautifully executed .... for $45. Summer can be all year around for your home!

Summer Splendor II

MuchachaK's coin purses - 16.50 and Pink Bathtub card

MuchachaK's coin purse and Boiled Art card

MuchachaK's cosmetic bag and pinkbathtub card

Andrea Pratt's Fish series in acrylic

Megan Bogonovich's Colonial Subdivision

Steve Bowersock Wysteria in watercolor

Steve Bowersock Pears in oil

Judith Totman's pastels of France
More shots from the gallery... including a little daughter peeking through the sculptures...

Megan Bogonovich

unusual growth sculptures by Megan Bogonovich

babydoll heads sculptures
It's so nice when someone so talented and so nice arrives in your voice mail via an old friend... Joe Blajda, a good friend from the "wayback machine" in college called me to tell me about a massive talent fairly new to the area - Megan Bogonovich. Well, it is a small world after all... I had already seen a peek at her work via Ms. Ashley G. 's blog and thought well, I have to look her up some day. Joey helped that along and I thank him ever so much for that!
curious route porcelain sculpture
Megan came around with her work and I almost fell out of my chair when she started unpacking these sculptures. They are modern and curious as well as beautifully executed. And that is just the beginning.

pink vine pattern platters $225 each 20 by 12 by 3 inches
Her other wares are all done in majolica form and are some of the most incredible work I have seen to date in that medium. Her patterns are organic and out of this worldly with quippy little quotes- such as "Megan knows your type" on her cups along with her signature.

two cups with quotes - behind is a backside of a platter
$28 each

Both types of her work are being introduced in this show and will continue to be unveiled in months to come. We have already sold some of these "unusual growth" dog sculptures and it is just a matter of time before the other pieces begin to fly off to new homes. Stop in if you can to see them, or give us a call if you would like a closer look of any one piece. Most of the work will be online over the weekend at the shop, so bookmark the page to see more! Life has been extra full with visits from some of my blogging buddies - Regina from monster crochet and last night we met Carla for dinner, so forgive me for being so slow in posting... more to come!

more Summer Splendor

Andrea Pratt's wall in Summer Splendor, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios.

Here are three of Andrea Pratt's lovely fish paintings. Modern, bold and deeply painterly, they have a luminous quality which you just can't see until you stop by.So, please do so! We have had such a great response to this show already - with work selling, my photographs keep becoming obsolete!

Along with these larger paintings, Andrea has created a series (which is selling fast) of original drawings. They are $45 and all about the sea and it's creatures. More of her work to come.

Summer Splendor opening

Pat Frisella and Megan's "with unusual growth" sculptures

Steve Bowersock with his paintings

Megan Bogonovich's platters and bowls

Hadley Hutton's encaustic work
Where did last week go? So much happening in a short time, I will try and recap a little here with photos of the event on Friday for a start.
Thursday we hung the show which really went together very beautifully. A few last minute details on Friday and voila! presto! Summer Splendor. The poets arrived and read in "round" style standing next to a favorite work. We had a splendid evening. I'll let the photos do the talking now, but will be back later with a couple of more posts about one of our newest gallery artists, Megan Bogonovich, and my way too short visit with the amazing artist and fiber wizardess Lady Linoleum from L.A. and monster crochet. I am a little behind in getting all the artwork from this show into the shop, but by week's end it will all be there. Promise!

Steve Bowersock - Summer Splendor

Another artist in our exhibition, Summer Splendor, Steve Bowersock, has created blooms and fruit in oils and watercolors. Here is one of my favorite plants reaching for the sky in watercolor. Wisteria. Nothing like it. My friend Judith started a plant for our garden with the same lavender color and I am about to get it into the ground for it's new home. In August, Rainer will be designing creating a sturdy pergola for it to grown upon as they are most vigorous growing plant. Below is another beauty from Steve. More to come today...

Summer Splendor

hadley hutton "cottoncandy day" encaustic
Hello all... finally back here in blogland after a wonderful week of making art and celebrating all that is warm and sunny in our area.
Summer is in high season here so we are celebrating it with a new exhibition of summer-filled wonders. Each day this week I want to show you a little of what is to come for our opening on Saturday, July 14! You are all invited to stop by from 5:30 -7:30 to enjoy the art and special guests too. We have Chris Wilhem from Boston dropping in to play some music, four poets from the Seacoast to give their readings on Summer Splendor and general merriment as it is also Bastille Day! Of course, as always, if you can't stop by, all the work will be in the gallery shop later this week. This beautiful encaustic painting is by Hadley Hutton, from Oregon. She is featured in our eQuinox gallery and we are so thrilled to have her work to share with you.