Do something for your community and be rewarded with art! Receive a “Desert Trip Print” in your mail box*. In real. A proper 25×32 cm Fine Art Print from my works. I start this initiative to support people who support the community through donation.
What is it all about?
This is another wonderful initiative worth to be copied.
For each donation over 100 € that you do to a foodbank or food service or animal shelter I will reward you with one of my 6 prints from my “Desert Trip Print Series”, a Fine Art Giclee print with signature of the artist.
Great thanks to my fellow artist Anne Bedrick in Palm Springs, California who inspired me with her initiative!
Anne and I in her Palm Springs Studio October 2019
What’s your part?
Sent me a copy of your donation receipt to a food bank or service or an animal shelter and inscribe to my blog – thats it. I will donate one of these prints to you! First come first! Very simple. The timing though depends on the regulations here in Spain. We don’t know, when we are allowed to go out again – we are to stay at home till end of April. And we are in a very strict Log-down. Just going out for food, medicine, doctor. Maybe following will be special instructions for the “endangered species” which we are a part off.
*Free shipping in the European Union.
Here is your puzzle of the day….maybe one day in your mailbox?
This is one of the Desert Prints which I offer – start to get familiar with it! Get to know each little piece! Click onto the painting or the caption!
I am very excited: The show is up! And I am in! Till 20th of Februar you can see this in the gallery!
NEW YORK
Saphira & Ventura Gallery till 21th of February!
6 of my paintings 12“x12“ ( 30×30 cm) are sitting in this mid-town New York gallery and are finally on the stage! Here it is: 5th of February to 21th of February you can see my paintings in this lovely group show having their debut in the center of New York. Wish I were there! ( The planning to do it in January has been postponed).
Read about my first exciting visit in the New York Gallery Saphira & Ventura, where I arrived with a huge suitcase of paintings…..Click here!
And here you see some photos from the great opening!
Saphira & Ventura 2
Saphira & Ventura 4
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Saphira & Ventura 5
Saphira & Ventura 6
In front of the blue paintings
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End of the year 2019 my schedule was still rather blank – only a few days into the new year it already gets a bit crowded with exhibitions!
NEW YORK
Saphira & Ventura Gallery 04th of February 2020
Date has been changed!!!! see below!
12 of my paintings 12“x12“ ( 30×30 cm) are sitting in this mid-town New York gallery and are waiting for their stage call! Here it is: 4th of February to 20th of February my paintings will have their New York debut in a group show – wish I were there! ( The planning to do it in January has been postponed). The gallery has not yet announced it in public – seem to be a secret still – so I will keep you posted!
Read about my first exciting visit in the New York Gallery Saphira & Ventura, where I arrived with a huge suitcase of paintings…..Click here!
COSTA DEL SOL
Las Lagunas, Mijas 24th of January 2020
More on the sunny side of the world the the never tired great art lover Raphael Fernandez Pacheco has organized a new exhibition in the beautiful exhibition room in Las Lagunas, Mijas. My artist fellow from Costa del Arte Collective , Sally Hirst and I will take part in this interesting group show of Spanish and International artists.
If you happen to be at the Costa del Sol, safe this date: 24th of January 2020. The exhibition is open till 10th of February. Inauguration 24th of January at 8 pm. You are very welcome!
Get a short impression from December 2018 exhibition in the beautiful rooms of the Casa Cultura, Las Lagunas, Mijas Costa
WORLDWIDE RELEASE. An experiment.
“THE DESERT TRIP PRINTS” Release date for Subscribers 17.01.2020, Public release 25.01.2020
The Internet offers incredible possibilities! 2019 was definitely my Internet-Work-Shop-Fan year! During one of these beautiful internet workshops – in this case “ The small art challenge” of Sergio Gomez, an artist and curator from Chicago I used my holidays in Palm Springs and the surrounding deserts to create a lovely digital series of my desert trip.
This in itself was an experiment. Finding a printer who is specialized in Fine Art Prints needed a lot of time, many trial and errors and test prints. This was another adventure. But that is done!!! Now I hold the prints in my hands, beautiful colors, wonderful paper, nice look and nice feel, printed by a very professional print shop. Offering my art worldwide with an online release now is the next experiment I am going to go for.
Special offer for my newsletter readers
A I have a special offer for my newsletter subscribers: a preview for some 4 days, to be the the first to see “The desert trip prints” and choose from this series of 11 prints, which will be published as a Limited Edition of 10 prints each painting, all hand signed and numbered by the artist. The release date for subscribers is 17th of Januarytill the 20th of January 2020.
Saturday the 25th oh January the series will be released via my website, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn worldwide. This special offer will be available for two weeks.
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And if you want to eat in Mijas….see my paintings there!
Paintings in Alboca Gastro, Mijas
Till end of March you will be able to enjoy “Dine and Vine” with view on my paintings in “Alboca Gastro” a charming small restaurant just near the large plaza of Mijas. Thanks to Rafael Fernandez Pacheco who is a great ambassador of the arts I have the opportunity to show some of my larger paintings to “the world”. As the restaurant will be closed from 20th of January to 4th February . My paintings will be to be seen through February and probably March too.
I am very much attracted to deserts. For me driving or walking in these untouched and so surprising landscape is always stunning, sometimes frightening, always touching. My deepest amazement is to be in such an inhospitable and in part intoxicatingly beautiful landscape in which its for any creature an incredible art to survive.
An artist journey
Here I share some impressions from our journey to Death Valley and the surrounding desert AND at the bottom of this page some news of my artist journey!!!!!
The photos cannot reflect the real impression but may be give an idea about what can be experienced in the desert. (All photos made with my iPhone camera) and the paintings hopefully reflect my personal experience of the desert! Enjoy!
Desert Roads – Roads to no where?
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Amazing Colors and Landscape in Death Valley and surrounding
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Death Valley
Weather – Sandstorm in the desert
When we headed towards Death Valley we had to pass near areas of Los Angles which had terrible fires and a lot of smoke. The view of the landscape was partly blurred and we didn’t know if this was smoke, fog or a sandstorm. It was a sandstorm which offered most amazing and beautiful views and transformed the landscape from second to second.
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Abandoned houses in Californian desert
Many tried to make a living in the desert, following the gold or other hopes.
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at the railway
Indian Canyon
abandoned truck
old post office
at the railway
Indian Canyon
The “Desert Trip Prints”
Our stay in the desert was deeply impressive and I started to create a series of digital paintings. So I am walking on a new and quite exciting artist paths. As soon as I feel my Desert Trip Series is competed I will publish it and offer prints. I have never before offered prints, so finding the right format and paper and especially an experienced Fine Art Printer was a journey in itself. But now I am happy with the one I finally found – the first prints look beautiful!!! I assume I will be able to release this edition, which will be a limited edition about mid of January.
Painting #11 Death Valleys Colors
Painting #4 “The abandoned house”
“The little pink house” Greenland prints
Last year I painted a series inspired by our journey to Greenland. As some of the original acrylic paintings are already gone, I decided to release at the same date as well a limited edition of the “The little pink house” Greenland prints so they are available to an affordable price for those who love them. See the development of the original Greenland paintings here. If you want to be one of the first to get to see the full edition and first special offer, join my newsletter here. Have a little preview here:
2019GL Red house
2018GL05 Pink house in the habour
“The little pink house” Greenland prints
And one of my other adventures:
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