Plein Air Painters of Mendocino Celebrate the Mendocino Whale Festival with an Exhibit and Sale
March 1 - March 31, 2008
Fourteen prominent Mendocino area plein air painters are pleased to share their recent work of the beautiful Mendocino Coast, Vineyards, gardens & more in a special exhibit and sale. Special features of this show include
painting demonstrations in and around the gallery, a “Silent Auction” of a selected piece of each artist’s work, and “The Back Room” featuring unframed work, matted works, prints and note cards.
Odd Fellows Hall, Mendocino (at the corner of Kasten and Ukiah Streets)
March 1 - 31, 2008
Hours: Fridays from 2:00pm – 8:00pm & Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00pm – 6:00pm
It is also possible to schedule a "Private Showing" in the Gallery, if the scheduled open hours are not convenient for your visit in Mendocino.
Open house and artist reception: Second Saturday, March 8 from 5:00pm – 8:00pm.
The Artists
Artists participating in this exhibit are: Donna Jensen Burke, Micaela Carr, Maeve Croghan, Lynn Cyrilla Crutcher, Claire Fortier, Carolyn
Hagopjan, Dot Johnson, Suzi Marquess Long, Mary Ann Nation, Deborah Nord, Cynthia Crocker Scott, James Stallings, Hope Stevenson, Sandy Wilson, and Agnes Woolsey.
This exhibit is sponsored by the Mendocino Art Center. Part of all profits from the show go to the non-profit "Flockworks', an organization supporting the Arts.
For further information email Cynthia Crocker Scott or Maeve Croghan.
Maeve Croghan
Magical Headlands
12" x 36"
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Maeve Croghan
Big River Beach Flowers
20" x 28"
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Plein Air Painters of Mendocino
The Plein Air Painters of Mendocino is an informal group of regional artists
who share a love of painting “in the open air.” They meet regularly on
Thursdays and can be found painting together anywhere from Westport to Elk
and from the headlands to the inland valleys.
Although the membership changes, the Plein Air Painters of Mendocino have
been sharing painting experiences and inspirations for at least forty years
since the North Coast became a creative magnet for artists from all over the
country and abroad. Many of the area’s most well-known and respected
artists have been members over the years.
This year the group has focused on painting at fewer locations repeating
visits to each in order to create a large collection of differing
interpretations of scenes. As you wander through the galleries, you will
see how each artist has responded to the various locations – seascapes to
vineyards, manicured gardens to wild woods.
In recent months PAPM has focused on painting locations at the many state
parks in the Mendocino area in support of the “Art For The Parks” project
organized by the Mendocino Area Parks Association. The resulting exhibit
and its sales will benefit the state parks.
The long historic tradition of painting “en plein air” originated in the
17th Century in England, and flowered in the 1870s in France when the
painters of the soon-to-be “Impressionist movement” sought to use pure light
and color to describe the subjects of their pictures. At the same time they
were abandoning traditional mythological and genre subjects for the reality
of life and nature around them. Plein air painting forever changed the way
we see the world. Plein air paintings express a sense of spontaneity,
energy, and participation in life which rarely occur in studio works.
In recent years there has been a burgeoning interest in plein air painting
throughout the world among artists and art lovers. The Plein Air Painters
of Mendocino share their painting s of California’s wild North Coast with
visitors and neighbors at local Galleries & Inns, the Mendocino Art Center
& at special exhibits such as this Whale Festival show.
Plein Air Painters of Mendocino Website: www.pleinairpaintersmendocino.com
