Hot off the Easel

 

 A new favorite from our artist Nancy Franke, White Sunday 24 x 24

 While some of us have been sweltering, mildewing and generally suffering from this summer of extreme weather discontent,  it seems like others among us – namely our gallery artists – have been using the time creatively to paint up a storm (which is a bad metaphor considering the weather we’ve had in Atlanta!).  But lucky for us, it feels like Christmas in July at the gallery, with boxes arriving daily from our various artists, each one revealing a wonderfully unique surprise.

 

Linda handling Christmas in July at Huff Harrington Fine Art

 It’s been so much that Linda enlisted Emily to come over and help wrestle with some of the boxes today … which (happily)  just keep coming.

 Although we loved hosting our annual Bastille Day bash, and had a gorgeous show with our guest artists’ particularly beautiful paintings this year (and a fun opening with Pascal Bouterin’s fabulous jazz band), it does feel good once again to be turning the gallery back to our artists who have spoiled us with their perenially spectacular new work.  Here are some of our new arrivals:

 Bonnie Beauchamp Cooke, Lady 1, 40×40

Bonnie Cooke’s Lady 2, 40 x 40

 Nancy Franke’s inspiration of Maine (Late Light, 12 x 9, after spending a week at the beautiful Rock Gardens Inn)

 And Nancy Franke’s Before the Rain, with a whole new palette that she discovered in Maine.

 Andrea Costa’s Grassy Meadows is just one of several new works by the artist.

 We love the leaps this artist takes, from abstract to figurative to highly contrasted and luminous landscapes. Here is her abstracted, “Blinding Rain” 48 x 48.

 

 Pascal Bouterin never disappoints, and this work, inspired by 19th century artists Boudin and Corot, is just one of many new works that is stamped with this artist’s unique and unmistakable signature.

 Martini Grey, 8 x 8 by Amy Dixon

 

 So vivid is this series, by Amy Dixon, that I told Linda today, “This just makes me want a martini” which is a little dangerous and naughty … and so fun, just like the painting!

 Every time we get a Lorraine Christie (not often enough, as she only has two arms), we revel in the painting and love to watch people’s reactions as they discover it too. Priceless (almost).  Always known for her enigmatic titles, the artist named her latest, “Not for you”  — which may actually be the one … for you!

 Rick Reinert’s Afternoon Glow, capturing all the warmth and light of a South Carolina late afternoon.

 

 And Reiner’t Morning Glow, which is what we’d all love to wake up to, every day.

And we are also particularly excited to add the work of a new artist, OPA (Oil Painters of America) member, Kevin LePrince to our family of gallery artists.   LePrince, who is from Charleston, came to us shortly after we discovered and signed up his friend and fellow artist, Rick Reinert, whose work has absolutely mesmerized us (and our clients) since we first started representing him a few months ago.

LePrince, who also works in oils and enjoys a very limited palette that focuses on the warm, sun drenched hues of his southeastern city, is quoted in American Art Collector Magazine, talking about his favorite city:    “[Charleston] has a never-ending source of inspiration with all its quaint restaurant interiors, streets rich with architecture reminiscent of old European cities, lush gardens, seasonal shifts that illuminate the sunset differently depending on the time of year. Wildlife is abundant here as well. I often find the creatures in the Lowcountry to be full of personality. The marshes here are full of life and mystery.”

 Kevin LePrince, Kiawah Sun, 30 x 40

 

 Night Moods II, 16 x 8 (one of a pair of beautiful paintings that evoke that amazing coastal sunset) in the artist’s loose and confident brush strokes.

 And one of our favorite paintings of all, a little jewel (9 x 12) by Kevin LePrince, that is “Looking West” and says it all.

We find that LePrince’s work, much like Reinert’s, evokes a wonderful nostalgic feeling that allows us to get transported back to a place or time that is both vivid and striking and, because of the shifting light, completely ephemeral.

We’re completely hooked.  Hope you will be too.

Ta ta,

HH