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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.

Save Our Cottages Series 6

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December 21, 2008

Sunny days and bright blue skies have allowed the PleinAireCottageArtists to paint.Our show opens January 9th at Guppy's on the Beach.

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Angels Abide Here

January 01, 2012

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...

Triptychs - 101

February 19, 2012

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...

Mary Rose Holmes Welcomes You to her home

May 06, 2012

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...