Bell Tower Shadows by Stephen Sanfilippo
2011 Sedona Plein Air Festival - Poster Award
2011 PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL
Friday, Oct 21 Evening
Festival Opening Exhibition Kevin Macpherson -
"Reflections on a Pond"
6:30 - 8:00 pm - (SAC)
Saturday, Oct 22
1:30 - 4:00 pm Main St. Paint Out Sunday, Oct 23 - Thu, Oct 27
Artists paint throughout Sedona & Oak Creek Canyon Tuesday , Oct 25 at 7:00 pm Kevin Macpherson, Guest Speaker Wednesday, Oct 26 Day with the Artist
in Historic Jerome Wednesday, Oct 26
7:00 pm Arturo Chavez, Keynote Speaker
Thursday, Oct 27
10:00 am - noon Quick Draw at Tlaquepaque & Los Abrigados
12:30 - 1:30 2nd Chance to purchase Festival art
Art Lovers Wine Gala
Oct 28 5 - 7 pm
Saturday, Oct 29
10:00 am - 5:00 pm Public Art Sale
Final Festival Sale - One Day Only! Meet the Artists, Sedona Arts Center Gallery
Joshua Been, born in 1974, had no shortage of outdoor adventures that cultivated his appreciation for the natural world. He was active in theatre and performing arts, while studying Earth Sciences as well. This interdisciplinary foundation is evident in the intricacies and truthful fascination of his landscape as well as his figurative work.
Learn to capture the beauty of light! Betty Carr teaches students to accurately portray the effect of light on any subject, both in oil and in watercolor. Students can work in either medium and will explore a variety of locations in beautiful Sedona. This weeklong workshop begins directly following the Sedona Plein Air Festival.
Growing up in southern California, Bill always had an interest in exploring nature and creating art. As an experienced rock climber, he spent much of his youth enjoying the more vertical places of the American west. This gave him a perspective of the world that few others would ever experience. He received a fine arts degree from California State University Long Beach in 1989, and later moved to Prescott, Arizona with his wife Michelle to be closer to the scenery they both enjoyed. It was there that Bill discovered the joys and challenges of landscape painting, his outdoor experiences providing much of the insight and inspiration expressed in his art.
"Each painting I do begins with an idea, something that's inspired me. I try to distill this into my own abstract design and interpretation of nature. The balance I'm searching for lies in creating a work that is technically proficient as well as 'painterly'."
"The landscape is my primary form of expression, whether oil or pastel, plein air or studio. I am awed by the beauty of this land and I'd like to communicate to the viewer a sense of place, a certain light of day, or a glimpse out the car window. "
Born in 1966 in Chicago, oil painter Tracey Frugoli has always known she would be an artist. Growing up in a creative household, she watched her father sketch and followed his lead. Later, she enjoyed unusually intensive art training in her suburban high school. She went on to earn a BFA in Fine Art from ISU, and a MA in Art Therapy from SIUE. She has been painting in her current style since 1998.
Elaine Hahn, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, holds a BA and MA in Art from the University of Missouri, and has studied with noted artists throughout the United States, England and Mexico. Her early career was influenced by her experience at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. She is a Signature member of the PaintAmerica Association Signature Society, the Florida Plein Air Society, a member of the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society, and is a Signature member of the American Watercolor and the National Watercolor Societies. Her paintings have achieved prominence through acceptance and awards in major national juried exhibitions. Her works are included in private and corporate collections throughout the United States.
"Plein air painting or 'painting from life' is my way of seeking oneness with nature. I can feel the magic of nature feeding my energy through sun and wind, temperature, sound and movement. Painting is also, my way of drinking in nature's gift of freedom. I paint that freedom through color, brushwork and composition."
Carolyn has been featured in Southwest Art Magazine. Her work appears in several books, including California Light, A Century of Landscapes and Land of Sunlight: Paintings of San Diego County. It has also published in Newport Beach Magazine and Plein Air New Mexico. She has received numerous awards, including Plein Air Magazine's Publisher's Choice Award.
Sterling started pursuing his passion of drawing and painting en plein air (on location) during his short post-graduation stay in Romney, West Virginia. His art shows his thrill at discovering the color, light, and warmth in his ever-changing surroundings.
Hai-Ou Hou was born in Beijing where she studied painting and ceramics at the prestigious Central Institute of Fine Art and Design. She accepted a teaching post at the Hubei Fine Art Institute where she taught painting and design. After immigrating to the United States, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Towson University. Hai-Ou's work has been widely published and exhibited both nationally and internationally and hangs in many museum, corporate, and private collections. She is the recepient of numerous fine arts honors and awards.
A second generation Arizonan born in Phoenix, Peggy Immel spent her youth traveling the world as the daughter of a career Air Force veteran. Her art education began with painting lessons at ten and includes architectural studies at Arizona State University and classes at three major New England art schools. While living in Boston she became a rock and ice climber, a turning point where nature and adventure became her muse. Moving to Taos, New Mexico, with her husband brought her back to her western roots where her landscapes are inspired by her love of the outdoors and the Southwest's exotic beauty.
Michael Chesley Johnson is a Master Pastellist of Pastel Artists Canada, a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Pastel Society of New Mexico, as well as a juried member of Oil Painters of America and other prestigious groups. His work has been in shows in both the US and Canada and has been published in The Artist's Magazine, The Pastel Journal, American Artist and Fine Art Connoisseur (Plein Air Magazine).
Sibyl grew up in the Bay Area and spent summers exploring the mountains and beaches around Monterey Bay as well as the Sierras.
Sibyl holds a BA in Education and Fine Art as well as a Master's degree in Education.
A thirty year teaching career was interrupted only once for the opportunity to teach art as a single subject for the Dept. of Defense Schools in Germany. The two years in Central Europe were devoted to art education and visits to the world's major art museums.
After a long career in the classroom the goal to paint full time and return to live in her
family's Carmel cottage has become reality.
"I am drawn to the light and colors of fleeting moments which I try to portray in my representational paintings. Influenced by the impressionists, sometimes I push or change my colors to convey my feelings about a scene. My use of the brush and palette knife, which are as unique to me as handwriting, will vary with each painting depending on my mood or the landscape. There is a spontaneity yet controlled look to my paintings."
Over the past thirty years, Raleigh has enjoyed a reputation of high regard from his peers through the continued critical appraisal of his own studio and plein air works. As a teacher of national stature he has taught workshops in states from the midwest to the west coast. He has preformed public demonstrations for private and regional groups in some fifteen states. Raleigh holds a signature membership in the Transparent Watercolor Society of America and he is also a signature member of the Plein Air Painters of America. Raleigh's work has been featured on calendars, magazines (Arizona Highways), posters for various events, art publications such as Northlight Publications "Energizing Your Painting With Color" and Freshen Your Paintings With New Ideas".
"A friend recently told me that a good indication of what would make you happy in life would be to look back at what you were doing at the age of four or five. I was happy outside, observing nature. No need of added stimuli, just the sight, sounds and smells of our natural world. I also drew a lot. After over twentyfive years as a freelance illustrator I have started pursuing art that.............. makes me happy. I was recently on the coast of California painting early in the morning. The sun rising quickly, shadows changing, wind whipping up from the west. The colors of the surf were yellows, and ochres, olives and innumerable shades of blue. I had only about an hour to get it all down. Those hours painting are what I live for."
Robert currently lives & paints in New Mexico. He has found subject matter all the way from Taos ,NM to Sedona, AZ to the beaches of Ca., to Venice Italy . Both a studio and plein air artist, he does the landscape, portrait, still life and the figure.
Ann is an award winning artist living in upstate New York's Adirondack Mountains. Born in Louisivlle, KY, Ann began traveling and living throughout the United States at the age of 18. After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Central Oklahoma, she and her family moved to Denver, CO where Ann began to focus on her painting and fell in love with the western landscape. Even though she lives in a beautiful part of the country, where plein air painting is a challenge almost any time of year, Ann also spends time painting on the coast of Maine and throughout the Southwest.
Robert Lewis is a professional landscape and still life oil painter living and painting on and around the Monterey peninsula in California. Lewis splits his time between his studio in the old art center and plein air locations. The balance of these two venues is essential to his development as an artist and to the freshness of this work, one informing the other, one keeping the other new and vital.
Lewis has enjoyed competing in a number of plein air competitions around the nation, including the Carmel Art Festival where he has been honored three times, Plein Air Easton where the Academy Art Museum purchased one of his pieces for their permanent collection, and San Luis Obispo Plein Air, Sedona Plein Air, and Callaway Gardens Plein Air.
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My process is an inquiry into sensuous potential of paint. To explore the mystery of sensation, to touch that which is known but cannot be measured, understood yet indescribable; the act of painting is an expression of my connectedness with God and Nature. I am Nature.
Roger's goal: "To get the 'non-art' person that glances at my painting, to stop for a long look. I put everything I have into a painting. If a viewer has an emotional response, then we have a connection, and the painting is our link."
Susan Pitcairn's light-filled imagery is both particular and universal, expressing special moments of insight in which the outer beauty of nature reflects the inner beauties of spirit. Raised in Arizona, Pitcairn paints the Southwest landscapes she has loved all her life. Fluent and versatile in several media — oils, acrylics and pastels, she also writes poetry to complement her paintings and has published two books and created a number of inspirational exhibits and events that combine these expressions.
Terri found herself captivated by the study of outdoor painting called "Plein Air Painting". "Painting outdoors is a completely exhilarating experience and I seem to paint feverishly to capture that perfect light or shadow in the constant changing weather conditions". Nature has proven time and time again to be the perfect teacher. "When painting outdoors you are completely and fully engaged in that moment in time and very intent on capturing that feeling on canvas."
Stephen's work is reminiscent of early turn-of-the-century painters like Edgar Payne, Sam Hyde Harris and William Wendt. Paintings during this time (1890-1930) expressed the connection that many artists felt with nature, and thereby served to reinforce the importance of our natural environment.
Julia works in plein air using oils to catch the quickly changing light and shadows of the Bay Area hills where she lives. She paints the landscapes of Northern California and the rural country side of the central coast, the colors and patterns are a her source of inspiration.
If traditional plein air painter Williamson Tapia is stubbornly passionate about one thing in life, it is painting beautiful, natural subjects without the influence of an "iron eye". As a (city-born) Native American art student at Glendale College (1978-80) and Arizona State (1981-83) he acquired a deep appreciation for the challenge of oil painting and the great legacy of artists in history who produced iconic works of art we see today in museums all over the world ... .
Born to a family of seven, in Alabama, I traveled to Taos, New Mexico in 1974 and have made it my home since 1980. I live in Des Montes, a rural community outside of Taos with my wife, Carmen and our two children, who attend college. We built our home and studio compound nestled at the base of Taos Mountain over a span of twenty-two years. The pitched-roof, log houses have housed much northern New Mexico creative spirit.
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