Call for artwork

If I haven’t seen you yet this summer, I just want to say hello and share our summer news. Gallery 100 already is busy this season, creating a permanent exhibit for a business that has an ideal public space to showcase fine art. I’m looking for regional artists to include in the collection, which will be local. Specifically, I am looking for paintings, prints, and mixed media works that reflect the beautiful region where we live. If you have any pieces we can consider for this project, I encourage you to drop me an email and send a jpeg file to: gallery100ss@aol.com I look forward to your updates and to seeing your work.

Consulting Work at Last

I've just been hired to put together a collection of artwork -- they want local artists - meaning artist from Saratoga County, Washington County and vicinity. This is such good news that I can hardly believe my ears. Someone is actually interested in purchasing original artwork -- this must mean something. That maybe the economy is changing and getting better. I'm excited!!!

Recent Paintings

I am finally getting down to business and I've started a new series of St Thomas paintings. Working from photographs, which is an entirely new thing -- I am developing a cast of West Indian personas. People I would love to know better.

St Thomas Paintings

St Thomas Paintings

St Thomas Paintings

I just returned from a delightful trip to St Thomas. I spent 3 weeks enjoying island life and ended up painting a series of 9 oil paintings on board. Since I haven't painted in over a year, it was intimidating at first brush stroke. But, as I progressed and started experimenting with paint, Kunstler's famous wax medium, etc. everything started falling into place. I painted a series of some of the beautiful West Indians I met during my stay. I will post the work soon.

Life After Gallery 100

It's been almost four months since we closed our doors at Gallery 100 in Saratoga Springs. It was bitter sweet -- I loved the gallery but it was apparent at the time that we were in for tough economic times. So, the decision was made and we closed. Now we are ready for a new venture. My friend Lynda and I are starting Sterling Home Watch in Bonita Springs Florida. It is not exactly the most creative endeavor but it is something that is needed in southwest FLA. And it will leave time to paint -

Closing Gallery 100

Closing Gallery 100 is definitely a challenge. We are still shipping artwork to clients, still shipping artwork back to artists, and still shipping artwork to customers who paid via our gallery 100 lay-away plan. Paying bills, paying artists and paying shipping costs are still part of our program. It's a good thing we sold some major artwork before our grand closing last month.

Showcase House

Gallery 100 was invited at the last minute by Deborah Savage Interiors to install artwork in one of the Saratoga Builders Showcase Houses this year. We scrambled around and found a group of beautiful paintings by some of our wonderful gallery artists. William Brian Hibbard's Horse paintings and his Bird paintings were among our favorites. Incidentally, the owner of the house just had to have his two Bird paintings -- which looked just fabulous over her fireplace. It's one of those instances where the paintings made the interior of a house come alive.

Goodby Retail

We've been working at Gallery 100 like mad for the last week -- closing accounts, artists picking up unsold artwork, shipping artwork to buyers, shipping unsold artwork back to artists -- it's a long tiring list. Yesterday, we moved the last piece of Gallery 100 out of our space at 462 Broadway. It was both a relief and sad at the same time. A relief because of the terrible state of our economy -- artwork is not exactly a necessity for some. (for me it is but that's beside the point) It was sad to close our retail space because I loved Gallery 100 and our artists who put up with me for 8 years of exhibitions, parties, openings, sales, projects, etc. I will miss the excitment of the gallery and miss our artists. Most of all I will miss working with Nancy -- our gallery manager.