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Texas Parks Centennial show
Slippery Step 40”x18” 2020.
Slippery Step is a sunset image of Balmorhea state park, in Balmorhea, Texas. This was painted for the upcoming Texas State Parks Centennial show and celebration.
Tree Lined Path, 12” x 20” 2020, oil on panel
Tree Lined Path is inspired by a trail in Fort Richardson state park, Jacksboro Texas. The trail parallels the upper side of a stream. In the background you can see the trees on the opposite side of the stream lit by the setting sun.
Both paintings will be included in the 2023 Centennial Texas State Parks Project and publication by Texas A&M University Press. Currently on view at Foltz Fine Art through August 31, 2022.
A Fort Worth Treasure Returns
After a spring cancellation, Gallery Night is now a social distancing-friendly weeklong event.
Greeting gallerygoers is Pat Gabriel’s “Immanent Domain,” a large rendering of a flowering tree that swallows up much of the foreground. A lightly cloudy steel-blue background and photorealistic barren landscape do little to detract from the white-flowered tree that burns with radiance. The reverence given to the placement and treatment of the tree elevates the large plant (and presumably the Earth) to godlike stature similarly to how Medieval iconography deified martyrs and saints on artistic pedestals.
an excerpt from A Fort Worth Treasure Returns
By Edward Brown September 16, 2020
Cactus heaven at the Grace
The Grace museum now owns my 2015 painting Cactus heaven.
The painting was originally in the collection of the late Jim Stuart and was bequest to the Grace.
High quality prints available
An edition of 50 numbered and signed prints of the painting West Berry Street are available at Artspace111
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BLK EYE Vodka pairs perfectly with Texas Art
GCG Marketing’s client, BlackEyed Distilling Co. product BLK EYE Vodka – the first vodka made using black-eyed peas in the distilling process. Has now added a second label featuring the art of Nancy Lamb. Better get a bottle with the debut label by Pat Gabriel while they last. The inside lables will continue to feature original artwork by Texas artists. The outer portion of the label will stay the same.
The bottles make a nice pair, Golden girl by Nancy Lamb at left, Farmfield at dusk by Pat Gabriel at right.
Fragile Spring selected for show poster
I was honored to be a finalist all four years I entered the art prize contest. And in 2011 was given further recognition by having my painting Fragile Spring chosen for the 2011 Hunting poster image.
About the Hunting Art Prize
The competition came into being through a chance coming together of interests. In the late 1970s the former Chairman of Hunting, Clive Hunting, was having his portrait painted by William Narraway when the subject of support for the arts in general was raised and industry backing in particular. Narraway, who was a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, told him that the visual arts was the poor relation of theatre and music and deserved its share of the sponsorship cake. Clive was impressed with this idea and realised that Hunting could make a significant contribution to British cultural life by sponsoring contemporary artists through a competition. Thus one of the UK's most important art competitions was born, with the first exhibition being staged in January 1981 at the Mall Galleries in London.
Subsequent years saw the exhibition transfer to a larger space at the Royal College of Art where it remained until its 25th anniversary in 2005. In 2006 the competition transferred to Houston, Texas and the tradition of a blend of figurative and abstract art continues to feature in the annual exhibition which is held on the eve of the Offshore Technology Conference. Houston celebrated 30 years of the Prize in 2010.
The standing of the Hunting Art prize grew year on year and was reflected in the willingness of leading figures in the art world to judge the competition. It was last awarded in 2016.
“The great strength of the prize remains its commitment to the drawn or painted image, abstract or figurative, objective or invented on a plane surface. This means that there are rich pickings to be had by the discriminating collector, for almost all the works are for sale”.
William Packer – former Art Critic, Financial Times