Turner Fine Art | 6/15-7/31 | Jackson Hole, WY

Flowers Bloomed

Turner Fine Art’s new exhibition displays freshly created artwork featuring florals.

As people quieted and headed indoors during the global health crisis, the world outside was still stirring. Wildlife and nature awoke from the winter hibernation and brought forth new life, as it does season to season, year after year. In the new exhibition While We Were Still…Flowers Bloomed, Turner Fine Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, will pay tribute to the bountiful blossoms.Eric Jacobsen, Outdoor Still Life, oil, 24 x 30"

Participating in the show are gallery owner and artist Kathryn Mapes Turner, Sherrie McGraw, Quang Ho, Kathy Anderson, Daniel J. Keys, Kathleen Speranza, Eric Jacobsen, Stephanie Birdsall, Scott Conary, Shanna Kunz, John Felsing, Adrienne Stein and Paul Rhymer.

The gallery explains, “[F]or the months that we were all quarantined, these artists worked in their respective studios to paint images of flowers as symbols of health, vitality and hope.”Kathleen Speranza, White Rose for Rena, oil, 10 x 10"

McGraw’s Chinese Vase with Roses is expected to be on view in the exhibition. Explaining the work, she says, “Contrast appeals to me artistically. Even though so much is happening in the world right now, my artist friends are loving the uninterrupted, quiet time in the studio. This painting reflects that contrast—the quiet of the vase and background with the compelling light and color in the roses that get all the attention.”

Jacobsen found inspiration for his work Outdoor Still Life from his front yard in central Oregon. “We grow a lot of flowers, which I end up using in my still life paintings,” he shares. “Lilacs are a favorite subject for me. The ones in the painting are from our yard. I also built the table in the painting from old reclaimed barn wood.”Sherrie McGraw, Chinese Vase with Roses, oil, 12 x 16"

For her artwork, Speranza often names the paintings after the people who collect them. Such is the case for White Rose for Rena—an example of the work that she will have on view in this show—that was named for her friend Rena Nathanson, the CEO of Bananagrams. “Most of my paintings explore the poetic possibility of a given subject through light, space, color and form,” Speranza says. “This one has a feeling of fragility and tenderness and a slight melancholy. Many of my paintings are quite small. In some ways I am simply saying that one flower is enough. Enough beauty and presence to spend precious time on. Hopefully the viewer will feel the same way.”Kathy Anderson, Tulips and Warbler, oil, 10 x 20"

Tulips and Warbler is characteristic of the paintings Anderson will exhibit in the show. She says. “It makes me so happy when the tulips come around, I usually try to do at least one tulip painting a season. Adding a little warbler was something I thought would provide another part of nature to the painting, and will do more of in my paintings for this show.”

The exhibition is scheduled to open Monday, June 15, but if storefronts are closed, there will be an unveiling of the show virtually. A VIP reception to celebrate the artists and their work is slated for July 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. —

Turner Fine Art
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