Monday, June 22, 2009

The Bluez Tones

Commencing this Friday on Jun 26th I will be participating in the 'Blues' themed art show occuring across the city of Long Beach. The 'blues' themed show is a joint show with collections displayed from Long Beach Art League, Artists in Partnership and WEA.

One of my blue's themed works will be exhibited at Evers Place Gallery at 949 West Beech Street with the gallery opening being this Friday Wed Jun 24th between 6-9pm. A cheese and wine reception will be held this Friday to commence the event, so hope to see you there!
The show will continue through to July 10 (gallery closed on Wednesday)

Almost opposite Evers Place gallery on Beech St, I have some more oil and watercolors paintings in the display window of Beach West Realty who are kindly showing my artwork throughout the busy summer months (thank you Megan!)...

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

www.jasonpritchardart.com

My new web url has been set-up this month under http://www.jasonpritchardart.com/. Although not yet fully finished, check back regularly for new updates.

On the show side of things, after a successful gallery opening earlier this month, the exhibit at the Jackson Hotel @ 405 East Broadway, Long Beach continues through to the 20th of May.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Manhattan Mutts

The next art show that features my work is scheduled to go up tomorrow at the Jackson Hotel, 405 East Broadway, Long Beach. The display arranged by West End Arts will be up for public viewing until May 20th and will feature a couple of my paintings. The reception will be held April 5th between 3-6 pm.

Meanwhile in the studio, I’ve just finished a recent painting from my ‘commuter life’ series called ‘The Dogwalker’. This guy I often see on my way to work, walking a pack of Manhattan mutts that are assorted shapes and sizes.

Coming next month (hopefully) will be the launch of my new website (version 2.0) which is currently being crafted. Link to follow…

Monday, February 2, 2009

Upscale Fish Market


My recent oil painting of Pike’s Place Fish Market, Seattle, is now finished and will be freshly displayed in the Art Students League of New York, class Concours show all this week. The reception night is this Friday and the work will feature alongside two other of my larger oil paintings which are on display until Saturday morning. The event is in the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery on the second floor of the Art Students League building at 215 West 57th Street, Manhattan.

Some great turn outs for the recent January shows last month despite the freezing weather. The Postcards From The Edge exhibit was very well attended in Manhattan with a wine opening reception held on 9th Jan . Some pictures below (The Flatiron Watercolor in the top left of the picture below was my submission);


Friday, January 2, 2009

Happy Good Year!

Happy Good Year !

A new year and a new show - two of my paintings will be form part of the West End Arts Show that commences this weekend on the 2nd floor of the Long Beach Public Library.

Also this month, I have artwork in the Postcards from the Edge exhibition which is being held at Metro Pictures gallery at 519 West 24th St in Manhattan. The preview party will be held 6-8pm on Friday 9th Jan with admission costing $75 which includes one raffle ticket. The event continues on Saturday with a suggested admission of $5, however, make sure you get there early Saturday morning to guarantee being at the front of the line!

My current painting that I'm developing is a scene form my recent trip from Seattle...



An oil painting of Pike’s Place Market which I visited back in November. I'm finally satisfied with the values of the painting, so am now working on the finer details of the signs and clock - hopefully to have this completed as my first painting of 2009.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Last month I got my first painting in American Artist Magazine publication. Below is the link to a critique of one of my rare attempts with Acrylics (Acadia National Park) that I had completed back in 2006.

http://forums.myamericanartist.com/blogs/critique/archive/2008/11/12/acrylic-critique-quot-acadia-national-park-maine-usa-quot.aspx

This month has been a busy time in the gallery space – on Dec 6th the below piece I painted of the Long Beach life guard chair was donated and sold in the ‘Picture Clean Oceans’ benefit sale for the Long Beach High School Surf Club – helping support the great conservation efforts of our local beaches.

I also participated in my third ‘The Colors of Long Beach’ event, which was held at the Long Beach Community Center on Dec 13th. As per prior years - I performed several water color demonstrations to the public and displayed some of my current and previous work.

Meanwhile, Evers Place Gallery is now exhibiting some new works from my collection in the ‘All That Glitters’ exhibition which begun on December 7th.

Overall a busy month which somewhat reflects a busy and successful year of exhibiting my artwork with the completion of over 10 shows in the Manhattan / New York state area, plus my first ever successful solo show completed back in July.

The next event will be in Manhattan at the Metro Pictures Gallery for the 11th Annual Postcards From the Edge benefit sale, where I have one of my postcard sized artworks in amongst 1,500 others! The gallery is located on 519 West 24th Street in Chelsea, for more details click here.

Happy Holidays and have a wonderful new year.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Foregone in Oregon

No updates from last month as I was on my travels through the scenic states of Washington and Oregon. This means two new landscape paintings which will come to form part of my 'across the states' series - inspired from some of my ideas, sketches and photo's that I collated on the West coast trip.

Washington was spent mostly taking in the sights, sounds and smells of the wonderful city of Seattle - from the flying fish atmosphere of the famous Pike Place Market to admiring the views on the top of the Space Needle.

Oregon itself, involved a scenic tour down the jagged coastline before veering back inland into the city of Portland. One of the most beautiful stops along the way was Canon Beach, where I painted the below postcard watercolor. Along the scenic highway, miles of pounding coastline can be seen against the backdrop of Haystack rock.

On the gallery news - still showing are three of my paintings at the 'Sun, Sand and Sensuality' exhibit down at Evers Place gallery which continues until Dec 5th. There are some impressive pieces on show with a wide range of styles and mediums -worth checking out if you haven't already done so.