Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake City has included me in its summer group show as an invited artist. The opening is this Friday, July 20, and if you are in the area I hope to see you there between 6:00 and 9:00 pm. The gallery is located at 444 East 200 South.
Phillips has taken three of my Salt Lake based architectural landscapes. Come by and have a look! The show will be up from July 20 to September 14. If you cannot make it in person, my work is up on their site.
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Come Home, 24" X 18," oil on linen mounted on birch
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There are more architectural landscapes in the works. It’s prime plein air time
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Work in progress at Robin's
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Volga River, Russia
In June, I had the privilege of being Arrangements Abroad’s first Artist Afloat. For ten days we cruised from Moscow to St. Peterstburg, in Russia. I painted along the way, saw impressive Russian cities, towns, and architectural marvels, and had adventures aplenty. The Russian people are generous and warm.
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Svirstroy, Russia
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Here’s a lady who watched me paint for a while in a little town called Svirstroy. It became evident that it was going to rain and that this was not going to deter me.
She clucked, muttered a few sentences in Russian and disappeared for a few minutes. She reappeared with an umbrella and held it over me for a good ten minutes until the shower passed. My Russian is basic, to be charitable, and I just repeated khorosho, ochin khorosho, spasibo! (good, very good!, thank you!) She beamed and I beamed and she let me take her picture before she and her umbrella disappeared back into the town.
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View from a Nevsky Prosekt Street Bridge in St. Petersburg
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I spent an afternoon painting the Church of the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg from a busy bridge on Nevsky Prospekt Street. My companion and I lost track of time and then lost track of where we were in relationship to the tour’s bus. After a good hour of wandering through one of the city's big, pretty parks, we realized we were lost. We found a formidable looking park guard. With the aid of a passerby who volunteered to translate we enlisted his help to get a taxi. He ran off to get his own cell phone, called the taxi company for us, air-wrote the sum we should be charged, and bundled us into the taxi when it arrived. He waved a cheerful “dasvidaniya!”
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Russian park guard in action.
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We arrived back at the boat happy and impressed with Russian hospitality once again. Here's the completed painting.
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View from Nevsky Prospect Bridge, 10" x 8," oil on panel
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Click here to see a collection of twelve paintings from the Volga trip. Many thanks to the professional guides from Academic Arrangements and our Russian crew on the Volga Dream that took us along the river and through St. Petersburg. It was a trip of a lifetime.
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At work in Draper, UT
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It’s going to be hard to top June’s adventures, but July and August provide perfect weather for painting outdoors. It’s time to stock up plein air work to be transformed into bigger paintings in the winter months.
Stay cool. Come visit Phillips Gallery between now and September 14 . I hope to see you at the show’s opening reception this Friday from 6:00pm to 9:00pm!
All the best, Elise
P.S. If you are interested in any of these paintings, or anything else on my site, drop me an email for a price list. All the Russian plein air sketches are $300.
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The Northern Port in Moscow, 8" x 10," oil on panel
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