Congratulations to Barbara Coleman, new signature member of AIS.

AIS is pleased to announce our newest AIS Signature Members,

a distinction achieved by only 14% of our entire membership.

https://www.barbaracoleman.com/

Signature Members are eligible for additional awards in our exhibitions and to serve as exhibition jurors.  They may sign their work with AIS after their name.

AIS has 2,390 members and as of December 15, 2024 we now have 341 AIS Signature Members.  

The PAPNM is well represented:

Congratulations to Belliveau, Coleman, Handell, Lewis, Lindsey, MacLeod, Meyer,  all invited to the OPA show at the Phippen Museum.

For all painting Images and more details: 

https://www.oilpaintersofamerica.com/show-gallery/?show=96226

OPA’s 2024 Western Regional Exhibition is being hosted by Phippen Museum, located in Prescott, Arizona, October 12, 2024 through January 5, 2025. The Opening Reception will be held on Friday, October 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. with the awards presentation at 7:00 p.m.

Founded as a gold mining town, Prescott, AZ is surrounded by mountain ranges and offers a variety of activities for visitors. Horseback ride on trails ridden by Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp, hike or motor bike in the Prescott National Forest, or pan for gold. Consider visiting the Sharlot Hall Museum, with the Governor’s Mansion, built of Ponderosa Pines, other historic buildings and gardens. Or visit one of the museums devoted to Western art and life as well as Native American history or take a walking tour of one of
the Victorian-era neighborhoods.

Our goal is to assemble approximately 100 of the finest display of representational oil paintings. The focus in the jurying process will be to select paintings that show the highest quality in draftsmanship, color, and composition, emphasizing a diversity in representational style and subject matter.

Two Great Annual Holiday Small Works Shows! First Show: Manitou Galleries Annual Small Works Show - December 6-31, 2024 Manitou Galleries (Santa Fe) hosts its popular holiday Small Works show each December. These pieces are 12"x16" or smaller and are a great way to collect a piece from a favorite artist. Act quickly by contacting Manitou Galleries if you see something you like - they can go quickly! The  Manitou Galleries Small Works show can be viewed online now here.  You're invited!!!  The show reception is this  Friday, December 6 -I hope you can join us! Second Show: Legacy Gallery (Scottsdale) Small Works Show - December 12-31, 2024 Legacy Gallery (Scottsdale) also hosts its popular holiday Small Works show each December. Invited artists may submit up to three pieces that are 12"x16" or smaller. All pieces in this show are sold by fixed-price "draw auction". To put your name in the draw for a piece, or to understand how the draw auction works, contact Legacy Gallery - this show is very popular! The Legacy Gallery (Scottsdale) Small Works show can be viewed online now here.  You're invited!!!  The show reception and draw is Thursday, December 12 - I hope you can join us! The Manitou Galleries, 123 W. Palace Ave., Santa Fe, NM

PAPNM Members in the Karen Wray Gallery: Tom Blazier, Jaye Buros, Karen Halbert and Richard Prather

Holiday Show: Dec 6 , 2024 - Jan 4, 2025

Opening Reception: Dec 6, 4-6 pm

1247 Central Ave, Los Alamos

Across the Street from the Bradbury Museum

Convenient Parking in front of the Gallery

https://karenwrayfineart.com

Congratulations to PAPNM Members:

Damien Gonzales: BEST OF SHOW.

Congratulations Damien, http://www.damiengonzales.com second year in a row garnering the Best of Show Award!

Cynthia Rosen's, Judge of Awards Statement

"All three of this artist’s works are stand-outs. They all have an elegance rarely found in plein air painting and I could have awarded any of the three ‘Best in Show’.

I chose this work for its incredibly subtle shifts of color which gives the mountain an almost sensuous human feel, albeit in repose.

This particular palette reminds me of the muted colors that harken to Vuillard and Bonnard, an unusual sensibility for plein air.

The darks of the bushes gently weave us through the painting while the lighter ground plane provides for solid footing. This is an ultra-fine painting with almost melodic undertones is rarely seen in a subject of such might."

Lorenzo Chavez: THIRD PLACE

David Mayer: FIRST PLACE ASSOCIATE MEMBER

Michele Farrier: AWARD OF MERIT

Carolyn J Lindsey: AWARD OF MERIT

Michele Byrne: AWARD OF MERIT

Lee MacLeod: BOARD AWARD

View the paintings here:

https://showsubmit.com/gallery/paac-27th-annual-national-juried-fine-art-exhibition-and-sale

Congratulations to all the PAPNM members juried into this annual show.

Belliveau, Carole
Byrne, Michele
Chavez, Lorenzo
Churchley, Barbara
Farrier, Michele
Gonzales, Damien
Jenemann, Ann
Lindsey, Carolyn
MacLeod, Lee
Mayer, David
Reilly, Kathleen
Szkutnik, Richard
Unseld, Virginia

From Natasha: "Very honored to be invited to participate in Round Top En Plein Air 2024! Hey Texas peeps, patrons and friends, hope to see you in a couple weeks! Gallery open to the public on the 8th, 11-3!" 

Marilyn Wightman's painting, "Water Play" was one of twelve works selected for the Pastel Society of America's Landscape Showcase in the Associate Members Division/

Works by PAPNM Members in the other divisions:

Beautiful Dream - 36” x 24”
Katherine Irish PSA
Placitas, NM

Morning Light - 18" x 12"
Albert Handell PSA-MP
Santa Fe, NM

Tom Blazier: Misty Hills, FIRST PLACE 2024 Encantada! Rio Grande Art Association. Nov 9 - Dec 1.  Hispanic Art Gallery, ExpoNM 

Tom Blazier, Misty Hills, 30x40, Oil, Standard Works FIRST PLACE

PAPNM Signature Member, Carole Belliveau, was featured in a Plein Air Today's article on 17 Gorgeous Sky Paintings!!

Congratulations, Carole.

From Carole:

"I was surprised and happy to see my plein air painting, Chicoma Mountain under a Blue Sky, featured in Plein Air Today. The painting is available from Breckenridge Gallery in Breckenridge Colorado. "

https://ac.streamlinepublishing.com/p_v.php?l=2&c=15245&m=17906&s=d554ff561b935526291510d84055796b

. Chicoma Mountain Under a Blue Sky

A big congratulations to Natasha for her new status: IAPS Master Circle.

From Natasha:

"What an honor to wake up to this amazing news today! Thank you Richard McKinley and the IAPS (International Association of pastel Societies) team for this letter received this morning. I am now recognized as a Master Circle Member of IAPS!! I’m so happy I can hardly sit still!

I hope you’ll keep reading…..

It started with a nest. The evolution of an artist. The validation of following my heart, of Connecting my Eyes, Heart and Hand. This is what I teach my students. Stay true to your vision wherever it goes.

In 2017 this painting of an Oriole’s nest made it into the IAPS juried show. Crazy I thought, how did I manage that?? Since then, I got a few others accepted although I had backed off even entering. Why you ask? My voice as a contemporary realist seemed to leave my work unnoticed in the big, global organizations. I was fighting off the insecurity that all the “declines” were building and just stayed the course of following my heart and painting my bliss. “Good Neighbors” (the trailers) exemplifies pure raw feeling and honesty in my work. I decided I’d put them out there. I didn’t try to enter “straighter” work I thought the jurors might like, I simply believed in the piece and IT was the one I wanted representing me if I were fortunate enough to get in. As it turns out, it’s the painting that broke through.

I’ve not been counting to see if I was close to IAPS/MC. I was just painting. Entering when I had the work available. Just wanting to get work in and be a part. No drive toward an honor consciously.

The moral to the story is: paint what you love, love what you paint, and stand by it firmly. Believe in your passion and paint it. It WILL resonate and get you where you want to go.
PASSION PATIENCE PERSISTENCE "