Past and coming exhibitions – Exposiciones pasadas y próximas

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Next art exhibition in La Cala de Mijas!/
La próxima exposición de arte en La Cala de Mijas.

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What a busy art time I had! The Art Walk in Cómpeta in April, “Mini Cuadros” in Almuňécar in May, the International Festival of Art in Marbella in June and now showing till July ” We can do”, an exhibition of 13 lady artists, in Cala de Mijas in the Casa de Cultura.

Next exhibition: We can do it! in La Cala de Mijas!

The Inauguration will be Friday, 28th of June at 8 pm! I will participate with two or three paintings. Two of my fellow artists from Costa del Arte Collective will show there works too: Anouk Slegers and Lieuwke Loth! This exhibition was curated by Rafael Fernandez Pacheco, who is a great art lover and probably features every exhibition to be seen in Málaga. This is the third exhibition I am invited to participate!!! Would love to see you there!

The International Festival de Arte in Marbella, a review /
El Festival Internacional de Arte de Marbella, una reseña.

A real fascinating event took place last week in Marbella. The Festiarte, a great art show that featured more than 100 artists in 60 stalls by the organised by the town of Marbella and Javier Roman (Delegación Cultural del Ayuntamiento de Marbella (@delegacionculturamarbella) y por Marco Eventos Culturales). We stayed 4 days and evenings – opening times were till 11 pm! – on the beautiful place with the Dali statues and the view to the sea. It was a great community of artists and many many visitors, who had a lot of choice to see and buy interesting artworks of different kinds: pottery, statues, photography, painting and more.

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Costa del Arte Collective at FestiArte

Two tents of CdAC

Trying to install the exhibition

Wind was a challange…

“Smile for life” by Lieuwke Loth

View into the two stalls

by Anouk Slegers

Entrence table

“Freedom” by Lieuwke Loth

by Gerrit Oppelland-Hampel

Stall of Gerrit Oppelland-Hampel

by Sally Hirst

Mini Cuadro series 20x20x4

The four days were a great adventure and success. And a real challenge! We got the tents with a nice lightening system but no hanging system at all. But with some tools, a lot of phantasy how to manage and a lot of patience everybody worked it out. A huger challenger was the wind, some days it had to be called storm. Coming back from a break we found a lot of the paintings on the floor, luckily there was no damage at our art! I took the opportunity to show some larger works, which got some attention.

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Think big – dream in color 160×140 cm

Dreaming about Greenland 160×140 cm

Woodland 150×130 cm Acrylic on Canvas

A little memory to some other stalls….

Press

Very happy was the Costa del Arte Collective about a nice article in EuroWeekly, written by Nicole King! Thank you Nicole!

I see black – Ich seh schwarz – Veo negro

2019-06-082019-06-08 by artgerritoppellandhampelin Art Events, ART in General, From lthe artists workshop, My exhibitions, Painting on paper, Small formats/ kleine Formate1 Comment

Lately I started with a lot of experiments – time by time an artist needs some freshness in her/his head and new inspiration. Finding new ways, collect new experience, has to question and expand her/his style. See some of the experiments here.

I give me a rather hard time, as I try to prepare for quite some traveling lying ahead of us. To stay tuned in my painting praxis I decided to take a sketchbook. I am not a great friend of sketchbooks and do not really a praxis. I like big formats and acrylic paint – that is quite a dirty job and asks for a lot of material. My trial with water color nhttps://artgoppellandhampel.com/?p=3384&preview=trueever gave me any satisfaction. So now I try how works Gouache. Quite fine, I can say after my first trials.

I love the old farmhouses in Andalusia, with all there add-ons and partly deconstructions they seem to tell a story of live. So I was fascinated by this one near Tarifa. The dog I fall in love with on my walk at the Open Studios Gaucín. You will find a photo of her there. If you are interested in this art walk, read more here.

Old farmhouse on canvas

sketchbook 1

sketchbook 2

sketchbook 3

sketchbook 4 – on paper

My passion in painting is color. I could say: my painting is all about color. So now I went on a diet. A strong challenge to brake familiar habits. The sweet Lana, the dog above, belongs to this series.

Some of the paintings are on wooden board. It gives a lot of possibilities to be mal treated. You can cut it, scratch it, work with hard tools on it. It invites all kind of spatulas. Some of this treatments a canvas would not be so happy with. Other experiments are on paper DIN A 4. Somehow a much smoother process.

Beautiful dog, Acrylic, on wooden panel, 30x30cm

home sweet home - on on wooden panel, 30x30 cm

home sweet home – on on wooden panel, 30×30 cm

In my wonderful park - 30x30 cm on board

In my wonderful park – 30×30 cm on board

No title 2 on paper

no title 3 – on paper

sketchbook 4 – on paper

Normally I love to work with rather bold and vibrant colours. So the challenge lies in tamed colours. This ones are not quite tamed, the motto was more: Go wild….

Black and red

Black and blue

Black and yellow

This are my experiments with a very reduce color palette. A lot of interesting new experiences through diet! Sometimes I feel very hungry for my familiar food 🙂 Wonder what comes next.

20×20 cm on canvas

21×29 cm on paper

Next comes an exhibition in Marbella in which I and the members of Costa del Arte Collective will be taking part. More than 90 artists will show there work in the Avendida del Mar – that’s in the center down to the sea. Opening the 20th of June at 19:30 to 23:00 till 23rd of June, open from 16:30 to 23:00 hours.

Very much hoping to see you there!

If you are at the Costa del Sol, don’t miss it! Get more information here: www.festiarte.art

Carry your favorit art work on a tote bag! Come and see some of them at the ART WALK CÓMPETA!

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A custom made art tote bag from your chosen artwork!

Did you ever have the idea, that you could have a custom made tote bag….you know, plastic is out and tote bags are in! And you can use a much nicer one than those which you find in the grocer shop! You can be stylish and arty with an art tote bag!

Get a art tote bag with your new painting!

When you purchase an art work from my page there will be a Tote bag coming with it!!!! So you don’t need to invite people home (though an “art warming party” would be a nice idea too, wouldn’t it?) but you can take your newly acquired artwork out!!! Extra offer: when you purchase one of my paintings* at the Art Walk Cómpeta, you get a Tote bag with your painting on it!

* Painting over 200 €uro

TB Think big

TB Wonder flowers

TB play tine

TB Grey white pink

TB Thinking of Saint Tropez

TB black and white

TB Pleasure

TB Zärtliches Grau

TB birds

Beach bag Wood Land

Tote Bag Wood Land

A Tote bag with a printed painting on it

Beach bag Wonder world

Tote bag

Win an custom made art tote bag!

If you are at the moment not up for a tote bag but love some of my art work – you may have a chance to win a tote bag! I will make a lottery with the first 20 people who subscribe to my newsletter and then announce the winner on Facebook! Subscribe to the subscription form on my Homepage!

Art and Music in the Air!

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SALIDA DEL SOL: Festival of the Performing and Visual arts started today, 01.10. in La Cala de Mijas!

Art exhibition and Soirées every day till 08.10.18 in La Cala, Mijas, in the Avanto Restaurant. Come and see my paintings and the art exhibition with works of 12 international artists. Every evening there will be a great performance: Music, dance, opera, fashion show and more. Read all about it at the bottom of this page!

Review: Great day out in Cómpeta with Art & Food & Music!

Sunday, the 16th of September we celebrated the Finissage of the first exhibition of Costa del Arte Collective in the Galeria Luz de la Vida in Cómpeta. We had put together a program for the whole day, so people coming up from the coast could enjoy a day with Art, Food and Music. We had a fantastic press cover, both in the German and the English press and our visitors enjoyed the “lazy Sunday lunch” in the Finca de las Sierras and our Finissage with great art of the Costa del Arte Collective, talked to the artists and enjoyed the impressing music of Duo Masque! Just dip in and listen for a while to Russel and Chrissy !

Huge Press Attention

The Costa del Arte Collective got a lot of attention in the social media and the English and German press:

Costa del Sol Nachrichten

Galeria Luz de la Vida

Deutsche SUR

English SUR

Deutsche SUR

A very personal press attention I got in

SPANIEN AKTUELL!

Aktuell Spanien Oktober

Featured in Aktuell Spanien

Great thanks to Marga Lange, who got in touch with my art and my way of becoming an artist!

To read more just visit the online edition from SPANIEN AKTUELL!
Besuchen Sie die online Version von SPANIEN AKTUELL HIER

More Art and Music in the Air!
Next exhibition starting Monday, 1st of October at

“Salida del Sol” Festival of Music and Visual Arts!

The next event is already taking a lot of my attention and it is waiting for you! Together with two members of the Costa del Arte Collective, Anouk Slegers and Lieuwke Loth, I will exhibit in the Art and Music Festival Salida del Sol, taking place in the Avanto Theater from 01.-08.10.18 in Cala de Mijas! Don’t miss it! Is is a unique combination of different branches of art, dance, music and literature!

Last Monday we started with the installation of the art show. Works of the members of Costa del Arte Collective will be to be seen from 01.10. till 08.10.18 from 11:00 to 18:00 hours. Twelve international artists will present their art. The visit of the art exhibition is free. There is a special offer for coffee and cake from the Avanto Restaurant at 16:00 hours at the time, when also artists will be present.

Preparing for the exhibition: Works of the members of Costa del Arte Collective. Exhibiting Lieuwke Loth, Anouk Slegers and
Gerrit Oppelland-Hampel

Very interesting program every evening! Music and Art, Dance, Literature and more!

Check out the program here for detailed information about the evening events here on Salida del Sol,

scroll down to see the list of participating artists and click on their names to reach their websites !

Program Day 1 to3

Program Day 4 to 7

Salida del Sol

Hope to see you there!!! Freue mich, Sie dort zu sehen!

Information (German) you also find here: SPANIEN AKTUELL
SPANIEN AKTUELL finden Sie als Print Ausgabe an verschiedenen Verteilerstellen. Das Magazin ist kostenlos und erscheint monatlich. Der online Kalender informiert über viele Veranstaltungen an der Costa del Sol.

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Art with the Scent of Rum/Arte con el Aroma del Ron

2018-06-222018-12-02 by artgerritoppellandhampelin ART in GeneralLeave a Comment

Coming home from the USA we rushed and packed the car with paintings again. I am participating in a group exhibition in the east of Malága, in Salobreña. It takes place in a stunning venue, in a Sugar Factory, huge place with lots of barrels of rum….I am very happy that all members of our new founded artist groupCosta Del Arte Collective” – Annabel Keatley, Anouk Slegers and Lieuwke Loth- are exhibiting there as well! Thanks to SaloArte laFabrica for arranging this exhibition with 10 international artists!

Al llegar a casa desde EE. UU., Corrimos y empacamos el coche con pinturas nuevamente. Participo en una exposición colectiva en el este de Malága, en Salobreña. Se lleva a cabo en un lugar deslumbrante, en una fábrica de azúcar, un lugar enorme con muchos barriles de ron …. Estoy muy feliz de que todos los miembros de nuestro nuevo grupo de artistas fundados -Costa Del Arte Collective “- Annabel Keatley, Anouk Slegers y Lieuwke ¡Loth- están exhibiendo allí también! ¡Gracias a SaloArte laFabrica por organizar esta exposición con 10 artistas internacionales!