Does your vacation inform your art? We ask the artists!

Gallery Underground Artist Debora Taylor reports- "This is one of my favorite scenes to paint, it is between Chincoteague VA and Assateague MD.  The best time to paint is early in the morning when the sun sparkles off the water.  This is one of those scenes I go back to time and time again!"

Chica Brunsvold - Gallery Underground Artist - Show Announcement

You are invited to an exhibition of Chica Brunsvold's newest work

June 25-August 25

                                                            and to a special reception

Sunday, June 30 1-3PM

(Goodies and Giclee Prints will be available )

 Green Spring Gardens Horticulture Center

4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria, VA 22312

Exhibit Hours: Monday-Saturday 9:00-4:30, Sunday noon-4:30

                                                  

What's Over your Couch - Part 4

Some of our artists hang their own work in their homes.  Some artists bring back souvenirs from their travels.  Some artists do both!  Proudly hanging over  Linda Maldonado's couch is this lovely watercolor painting of Aya Sofia mosque in Istanbul Turkey.  

Kathy Turner's mantle sports a large oil painting by Washington DC artist Gregory Ferrand.  Quite the story in this piece!

Kathy told me "Over the sofa in our den is a lino print by Hawaiian artist Dietrich Varez from 1979. I found this rolled up at an estate sale for a dollar. I like to salvage artists work when I find it in situations like that."  Kathy is a woman after this blogger's own heart!  How awesome to save a dramatic piece like this.

If you missed Jim George's nice article about Keith Wilkie's Opening and the June works at the Gallery Underground you can find them here.

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What's over your couch? Part 3

Hay Bales II by Melissa L. Miller

Sandi Douglas Parker - Co-Director of the Gallery Underground says : "What is hanging over my couch? Surprisingly, not my own work (that's over the fireplace). What is hanging over my couch is an amazing painting by North Carolina artist Melissa L. Miller. It is entitled "Hay Bales II." We had some friends living in Chapel Hill, NC a few years ago, who invited us down every year for a studio tour of Orange County NC. I fell instantly in love with this woman's work on the tour, and bought this painting - it is quite large, 36" x 36." I love her loose style of painting, something I am always striving for (who knew loose was harder than tight?) Also adore her use of purple. Attached is one of my paintings, "Lookout," done for the recent Walk on the Wild Side Show, which as you can see, has been clearly influenced by Melissa L. Miller!"

Lookout by Sandi Douglas Parker

What's hanging over your couch? part 2 AND New June Show Info

                                 What's hanging over the couches of Gallery Underground artists?   

                                  Jackie Afram submitted this panoramic DC landscape.

                                                        View from the South Tower of the Cathedral"   Jackie Afram

Evening Stroll - Keith Wilkie

‘Coastal Colors’
Sailor, beach lover and traveler from an early age, Keith Wilkie’s paintings capture the quiet, peaceful and sometimes stormy nature of familiar coastal scenes, landscapes and waterway subjects. From the Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina coast to Europe, the Caribbean and beyond, his work evokes memorable maritime moments — whether it is a salty breeze at the beach, surf before an approaching storm, wildlife in a marsh or just fishing. Keith is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists,
Keith is a Signature Member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters, and a member of Landscape Artists International.  Join us and meet Keith at his opening reception, Thursday, June 6, 5-8 p.m

Casual Acquaintance by Bryan Jernigan

‘Earth Song & Visions’
Gallery Underground will feature works celebrating the earth in Earth Song & Visions, running Monday, June 3 through Saturday, July 6. All mediums will be represented in everything from traditional landscapes, to still lifes of flowers and fruit, to vibrant abstracts depicting earth subjects, and sculpture and  ceramics made from earthy materials.