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.
Indian Rocks Beach Historic Museum Re-Opens
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Original oil painting of Indian Rocks Beach Historic Museum, gifted to the Museum by Mary Rose Holmes
Indian Rocks Beach's new wing and renovated Historic Museum is now officially open.
Architects Holmes & Holmes of Indian Shores designed the new wing which links and compliments the existing structure.
The museum is home to exhibits and displays that take guests on a
journey from Indian culture to the days of pioneer settlement and to the modern motel and condo eras. Museum features include a
pictorial timeline, Indian artifacts and a
historic cottages exhibit as well as great photos, artifacts and
interactive audio devices tied to exhibits bring history
alive.
GeorgeAnn Thompson, Donna Valery and Nancy Ayers
The Museum's gift store offers unique gifts and the original paintings of The Plein Aire Cottage Artists
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...
Beautiful works by talented painters...I wish that I lived closer so that I could see them in person. Have a wonderful week Helen!
ReplyDeleteHello Elizabeth
DeleteWe would love if you lived closer to us and know we would enjoy your company very much. Perhaps some day you will visit
I really like that first painting of the museum.
ReplyDeleteHello Cait
DeleteThank you for your kind compliment. The painting is by Mary Rose Holmes and hangs in the museum. Hope you visit Indian Rocks Beach one day soon