"California's Amazing Abundance"

Come to La Galeria Gitana, 120 N. Maclay Ave., Ste. E for an amazing exhibit of art work, including mine and other outstanding artists. The reception is Sept. 17, 2011, from 6:00 pm to 10 pm., and it runs through Nov. 5, 2011. These paintings are my palette knife oils rendered to catch pockets of light in the fields or wherever I found produce from our California landscape.

    "Hillside Vineyard" 18 x 24 original oil

"Twilight Vineyard" 18 x 24 original oil

"My Garden Rooseter" 10 x 10 original oil

"My Tomatoes Are Ripe" 10 x 10 original oil

"Corn Fields"  20 x 16 original oil

Cabbage Plant  10 x 10 original oil

"Flowers for Her Table"  10 x 10 original oil

"Squash Field"  20 x 16 original oil

Touch of Gold

“A Touch of Gold”


Art Exhibition at The Women’s City Club of Pasadena.  Here are 5 of mine in this show.  Can you smell the gold of autumn in the air?

"An Autumn Path to Climb"

36 x 24 oil $995.00

"First Snows of Fall and Cottonwoods"

20 x 16 oil $875.00

"First Snows of Fall and Sycamores"

14 x 11 oil $625.00

"Mustard Gold in Valley Foothills"

14 x 11 oil $625.00

"Touch of Chardonnay"

14 x 11 oil $625.00

The Women’s City Club of Pasadena at the historic Blinn House is pleased to announce its fall art exhibition, “A Touch of Gold.” The exhibition, which runs from August 1 through October 31, 2011, features fifty six paintings by eighteen California-based artists. It will be the second exhibition produced by Margaret Danielak, the Women’s City Club of Pasadena’s Curator of Exhibitions. The artists’ reception is Thursday, August 11 from 6 pm to 9 pm.  Come see my paintings in this exhibition.

Gardening in Art

Gardening in art is like art in gardening: full of color and fragrance.  When Karen Nichols, curator of La Galeria Gitana asked for rural scenes in an urban setting, I sought the community garden patches as a source for the return to our farming roots.

"The Garden Gate"

14 x 11 oil $450.00

"Come Sit in My Garden" 

 14 x 11 oil $450.00

"Pumpkins in My Garden"

14 x 11 oil $450.00

"Rooster in My Garden"

10 x 10 oil $350.00

"Tomatoes in My Garden"

10 x 10 oil $350.00

NUTRITION IN ART

 Your Garden Grows as You Think!
What we put in our thoughts  (or on our walls!)is as important as what we put in our mouths? or as what we look at. What does red taste like? blue sound like? yellow smell like? As artists we look for how to define light and shadow, texture, and composition, even as a gourmet cook sniffs for the right sprinkle of spice.

As art connoisseurs, you will be looking for pleasure in colors or in themes.  Color is a healthy way to stimulate your imagination.  These are happy kitchen catchers, each  in 10 x 10 original palette knife oils available for $340.00 plus tax and shipping. Contact me at RSummersB@aol.com and designate "Garden" with  grapes, cabbage, watermelon, strawberries, artichokes, as the paintings you would like to aquire.   beth

MEDITERRANEAN MOMENTS

"Saint Paul de Vence Street" 8 x 10 oil on canvas $325.00.00

Sailing on our clipper ship, Star Flyer in France and Italy, I found the views from our deck full of deep blue moments on the Mediterranean.  My palette knife was happy to sculpt citadel walls, city allies, and poppies. 

It was fun to have 18 families add my art to their collections.  The commissions are still on their way to completion.  You can order your own "moment" by commissioning one like these, if it is already sold, or sending me your own travel photo for a living breathing impressionistic oil painting. Just contact me at RSummersB@aol.com.

"Street in France" 8 x 10 oil on canvas $325.00

                                  
                                                         "Saint Paul de Vence, France"
                                                          8 x 10 oil on canvas $325.00

"Calvi, Corsica, Houses on the Cliff" 11 x 14 oil on canvas, SOLD

"Star Flyer Clipper Ship" SOLD

"Rome Window Flower Boxes" 5 x 7 oil on canvas $125.00

"Byron's Cove, Portovenere" 11 x 14 oil on canvas $395.00

"Bonafacio, Corsica Poppies" 11 x 14 oil on canvas $395.00

"Corsica Mountain Mysteries" 5 x 7 oil on canvas $125.00 SOLD

From France and Italy

Mediterranean Magic
moves in wide blue waves
citadel keeps watch
while we sail on winds of wish
made true in adventure's risks.....

"Bonafacio Citadel", 11 x 14 oil, $395.00  SOLD

"Bocalle Castle" 8 x 10 oil $395.00  SOLD

Perception Possibilities

Perception Possibilities

                                                                Parade of promises

Make up of the stars

Poppy spendor lipstick

  Wear this joy with love.

  "Parade of Possibilities" 24 x 36 mixed media, $895.00  SOLD

Shapes and colors of wide skies   
come together in the midst
of whatever you can see
Perception poses
joy of "Fire and Ice,"

"Fire and Ice", 20 x 20 mixed media, $650.00

    "Flight of Faith," 20 x 20 mixed media, $650.00