3 Members/3 Friends/1 Vision to capture on canvas our history. Helen Tilston, Mary Rose Holmes and Violetta Chandler have been painting together for the past 20 years. All three represented the USA at the juried invitational Florence Biennale in Firenze, Italy. Florida Trust for Historic Preservaton award. a Victoria Magazine, 2019 Two documentary Save Our Cottages Artists with a cause and a second Canvas with a Cause aired on PBS 2020.
The Summer Wind and Painting Commissioned work
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The days in which all three of us paint plein aire are special.This summer day is hot and the gentle breeze from the ocean is co-operating. It is perfumed by the roses that grow in this cottage garden. One of us started humming the song The Summer Wind and before we knew it we were in full chorus.We are all working on commissioned pieces. Violetta's client is adding this to the entrance way. It will join a trip tych, painted by us (one panel by each artist, when when hung forms one cohesive view)
Violetta painting a scene in a bespoke size which will be displayed in clients tropical home
The words of Summer Wind by Shirley Bassey is being sung by us as we paint outdoors. All three artists are working on commissioned pieces. That view, image which needs to be preserved in the hearts of the owner.
This view will be painted for a yearly guest who holds strong connections to this cottage
This view has been requested, the large umbrella hosts many parties and gatherings by the family
This is one of our favourite lunch spots
Mary Rose is painted this beloved view which will hang in the clients home in a Northern State
Thank you for stopping by and visiting us and for you compliment. We are grateful and count our blessings to be living in this little corner of paradise and also to be blessed by the gift of friendship and our love of painting and now we are more blessed to have your kind words. Violetta, Mary Rose and Helen xxx
I found you at Karen Valentine's blog & came to visit. I ADORE your art & the idea of being able to paint outstide with firends is wonderful. ENJOY! Charlene
Thank you for stopping by and for your kind words. They have made our day. I hope you will stop by soon again and I will be over to see you too. Helen xx
Thanks for stopping by and your comment most welcome. Coincidentally all three of us have worked in fashion and interior design. We all love to dress up and we love to paint. Have a great week Helen
What happy, civilized lives you lead, not alone surrounded by beauty but dedicated to depicting it. I can imagine you all sitting with a champagne beneath those red parasols, sharing merry stories. We'll all sing along with you.
Hello Mise It is a good life and how did you know we do share some merry stories and laughter. We jokingly call ourselves the I.R.A (Helen born in Ireland, Violetta in Russia and Mary Rose is American born). Our weapon is the paintbrush and song. Thanks for your visit Mise Helen, Mary Rose and Violetta
Helen Tilston painting Guppy's Indian Rocks Beach A favourite expression of my mother's is: "if a job is worth doing; it is worth doing well" and "no one will ask how long it took to complete a job but they will ask who did it" words of Kathleen Bohannon Glynn. As you will recall from a previous post RCS Helps The Gift of Food selected us as the artist for their fundraising card. Thank you to all who have generously donated, including followers and one specifically namely Carolynn Cecilia who blogs under The Anchor and the Bird . Imagine my surprise to open her blog and note she carried my posting on RCS Helps. Carolynn Cecilia began her "Days of Deeds" this past May and planned to do one good deed daily for 31 days and to her surprise she could not stop here. Carolyn Cecilia and I have not met but have become friends through blogging and I am always happy to see her new post. Carolyn Cecilia you are person of such integrity and h...
Mary Rose Holmes at the entrance to her beach cottage with Artist Violetta Mary Rose painting en plein air Violetta and Mary Rose painting en plein air Hello Again, Please step inside my home, have some iced tea and pecan pie and I shall tell you a story. Mary Rose Holmes majored in Fine Art. During her time at college the emphasis and style was certainly modern. Students were encouraged to used bold slashes of colour in a minimal fashion, which Mary Rose did. Returning home during college break, she would boldly present her modern ideas to her father (a collector of original realistic and impressionistic art) and imply that he should move along with the times. Her father Algenon Speer, a Fifth generation Floridian defence attorney living in a small town in Florida had his own ideas about art. He tried cases in various areas and during his travels back in the 50's he stumbled upon some black artists who sold their paintings on the roadside, out...
Violetta, Mary Rose and Helen paint a triptych (The Plein Aire Cottage Artists - Mary Rose Holmes, Helen Tilston and Violetta (Shtumeyzen Chandler) - we have been painting together for eleven years. Recently they got into creating triptychs, (pronounced trip' ticks) or three-paneled paintings. Each artist paints a third of the scene and when they put the three finished pieces together, they create a cohesive and colorful whole. It's a special kind of teamwork for artists. "Starting in the 1980s, a lot of artists learned to work collaboratively, so there's a precedent," said Lynn Whitelaw, director of the Leepa-Ratner Museum in Largo, who is familiar with the Plein Aire artists. "But I don't know of three artists that have worked together like these three do." There is a certain harmony among them that transcends style. "They share the same aesthetic," Whitelaw observed. "Their styles are complementary, but each i...
3 beautiful women living in a beautiful place doing beautiful work,how lucky you are.
ReplyDeleteHello Dolldoll
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by and visiting us and for you compliment. We are grateful and count our blessings to be living in this little corner of paradise and also to be blessed by the gift of friendship and our love of painting and now we are more blessed to have your kind words.
Violetta, Mary Rose and Helen xxx
I found you at Karen Valentine's blog & came to visit. I ADORE your art & the idea of being able to paint outstide with firends is wonderful. ENJOY!
ReplyDeleteCharlene
Hello Charlene
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by and for your kind words. They have made our day. I hope you will stop by soon again and I will be over to see you too.
Helen xx
Mmmm, I want to eat at your favourite lunch spot. I also love that shot of the water with the billowing skirt and great hat!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Katie
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and your comment most welcome.
Coincidentally all three of us have worked in fashion and interior design.
We all love to dress up and we love to paint.
Have a great week
Helen
What happy, civilized lives you lead, not alone surrounded by beauty but dedicated to depicting it. I can imagine you all sitting with a champagne beneath those red parasols, sharing merry stories. We'll all sing along with you.
ReplyDeleteHello Mise
ReplyDeleteIt is a good life and how did you know we do share some merry stories and laughter. We jokingly call ourselves the I.R.A (Helen born in Ireland, Violetta in Russia and Mary Rose is American born). Our weapon is the paintbrush and song.
Thanks for your visit Mise
Helen, Mary Rose and Violetta