Thanks to everyone who attended my show at Adams Bistro this past weekend! It was a lovely afternoon spending time with friends and meeting new clients. We enjoyed cold drinks, chocolate covered strawberries, and gourmet cupcakes, courtesy of the restaurant.
My personal thanks extended to each and every one of you who came out to the show. If means so much to know that other people are enjoying my work. What would my art be for if not to bless other people?
my thanks
Art Renewal Center
Fellow artists and those who simply appreciate good art, don’t miss this amazing website: http://www.artrenewal.org/
It’s easy to get lost in the online galleries linked to this site…every artist’s work is unique yet spectacular in its own way, and all the paintings are technically excellent. Also, I really enjoy and agree with much of thier worldview on art:
“We have painstakingly unraveled an understanding of how and why great traditional art nearly perished. For the sake of our children, our culture, and posterity, the Art Renewal Center is dedicated to traditional humanist art, which is essential to the health and welfare of mankind, and to a critical and truthful analysis of the modernist onslaught by which it was nearly consumed.”
While I personally enjoy well-executed modern art (sometimes a mood or emotion can be expressed in a fascinating way through non-representational work), there is something timeless and enduring in the representational work of the masters. Below are some of my favorite images I found on the site:
Gaston Bussiere
Joan of Arc
1908
Oil on canvas
The colors, ethereal mood and atmosphere of this piece are just breathtaking.
Shane Wolf (age 31)
Shane in the Grand Manner
Oil on Canvas 2008
I love that the artist is so young yet so accomplished here. There is something very striking to me about self-portraits of other artists: maybe it’s the eyes that look out from the canvas that say, I know myself better than any other person I’m going to paint. You can get a depth with the self-portrait that is fascinating. Also, you can be honest with yourself without worrying that you’ll be offending anyone. While in Scotland this summer I visited a portrait museum, and remember being in a huge room full of portraits, from floor to ceiling. I kept coming back to one portrait because it had a drama and strength to it that the others lacked; the eyes and expression pulled you in. It was one of the only self-portraits in the room.
Fine Art Exhibition at Adams Bistro
Come for an elegant afternoon of fine art and dining, with light refreshments provided. Enjoy over thirty of Jessica Libor’s original pieces on
Saturday, January 24th from 3:00-6:00PM
at Adams Bistro, 221 Pelham Road, Greenville.
Pages from the Imagination
Once in a while I believe it’s an excellent idea to draw strictly from your mind, looking at nothing as reference material. For me, this helps me to free my mind to think more creatively. Good music helps. While many times the drawings that emerge from these sessions are not technically as correct as drawings from life or reference photos, they exhibit a spontaneity and freshness that sometimes the more carefully planned works lack. I never plan what I will draw during these times; there is an excitement to just letting it flow out on paper. Oftentimes what I am listening to will have a direct connection to what comes out in my sketchbook.
Wings, angels, a small phoenix and anatomy of a back
Scotland
Sailing in a river of clouds
