• Home
  • About
  • Contact and Social Media
  • Art Workshops
  • Gallery One – Lakes and Gardens
  • Gallery Two – Pond in Bloom
  • Gallery Three – Hats on Broadway
  • Gallery Six – A Murder of Crows
  • Gallery Four – Artist in Residence at Pepperwood Preserve
  • Gallery Five – Seasonal Paintings, A Pepperwood Sonata
  • Gallery Seven – Pastel Landscape and Still Life
  • MEET SONOMA COUNTY ARTIST MARSHA CONNELL by Satri Pencak

Marsha Connell Studio

Marsha Connell Studio

Tag Archives: Environment

New SebArts Virtual Open Studios, SAVOS

01 Tuesday Sep 2020

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art, Drawing, En plein air, Event, Exhibits, gallery, Landscape, Oils, Open Studios, Painting, Pastel, Slide Show, Sonoma county, Upstairs Art Gallery, Healdsburg, Watercolor

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

artists, California, community, Environment, flowers, gallery, garden, home, inspiration, journeys, joy, meditation, nature, originals, spirit, weekends

Aztec-Dahlia-Gardens.jpgAztec Dahlia Gardens, 36 x 36″, oil on canvas, SOLD, giclées available 

Art Collectors: you can now visit artists and buy art from the safety of your favorite armchair or get your mask and hand sanitizer to visit in person.

Please help test this virtual project by going to my online gallery https://sebartsvirtual.org/artists/connell/. 6 paintings at a time will be available directly from the SAVOS shop during September. Kindly share this news with friends who might enjoy the healing comfort of art, to visit online or to own, or who are simply curious. Let me know how this new site works for you.

My physical studio will not be open, but more images including oils, pastels, watercolors, drawings and giclée prints will be accessible via my website, Facebook, text, emails, phone, and Zoom. Please contact me any day this month (10 am – 5 pm) and I can help you navigate this virtual landscape. Links are at the bottom of the email.

Also my art is on the walls at Upstairs Art Gallery, Center Street next to Healdsburg Plaza, and Gallery at Corricks, 637 4th Street, Santa Rosa.

Limited outdoor appointments may be available to pick up art from my studio or to see a piece that calls to you in person. We will observe current Covid safety regulations as listed on the SAVOS website. Looking forward to in-person hugs in 2021!!

Each SAVOS artist’s page will show if their studio is open virtually or physically. There are about 137 of us! https://sebartsvirtual.org/

Check in on the website for virtual events, panel conversations, demos, videos. On Tuesday, Sept 15, at 1:00 pm, I  will be on a virtual panel with other SAVOS painters to talk about our artistic processes, motivations etc.  Please join us! You will need a zoom account. Join live

10-Marsha Connell-Wildflower Heaven 2-oil- -30x30"-2009Wildflower Heaven, 2, oil on canvas, 30 x 30″, available on SAVOS website

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

FOLLOW those BLUE Art Trails signs, NEW DATES October 21-22 & 28-29!

18 Wednesday Oct 2017

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art, Collage, Dream Vessels, En plein air, Event, Exhibits, Fundraiser, gallery, Healing art, Oils, Open Studios, Painting, Pastel, Sonoma County Art Trails

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

artists, California, community, conversations, Environment, gallery, home, inspiration, journeys, joy, life, love, meditation, nature, originals, spirit, support, weekends

 

Art Trails Open Studios rescheduled:

October 21-22 and October 28-29

Art Trails 2017 opening 018 copy.jpg

In the spirit of an offering, a gift to our community, about 130 Art Trails artists throughout Sonoma County, will open studios and hearts to the public, sharing beauty and hope. My studio, #24 on Art Trails map, 2180 Beverly Way, Santa Rosa, will be open both weekends, 10am – 5pm.

Just as music can be inspiring and soothing, light and dark, taking us on emotional journeys without words, seeing wonderful art can be uplifting, inspirational, moody and joyful, bringing comfort, solace, contemplation, refuge, and pleasure. I invite you to visit, and have a hug, share a story, tea and cookies, and travel through my plein air paintings to healing landscapes, places of memory, dreams and renewal.

Our hearts are breaking for those who have been devastated by fire. Several Art Trails artists have lost homes, studios and/or their entire art inventory. The Art Trails Artist Relief Fund has been established. Donations can be made directly at many Art Trails studios and exhibits, and on-line at www.SonomaCountyArtTrails.org or www.SebArts.org. Make checks payable to SCA, with a notation indicating Art Trails Artists Relief Fund; checks may also be mailed to Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High St., Sebastopol, CA 95472.

I will be donating a percentage of painting sales, and will also be offering my contemplative Dream Vessels collages and some hand held carved clay sculptures.

An updated list of artists and maps showing participating studios will be posted by the weekend on the www.SonomaCountyArtTrails.org home page. We encourage visitors to stay up to date on road conditions.

Thank you for supporting the arts!
Marsha Connell, Chair Art Trails Steering Committee

FullSizeRender.jpg

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

The Human Race: Support The Living Room

01 Monday May 2017

Posted by Marsha Connell in Fundraiser, Sonoma county

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

caring, children, community, donation, Environment, home, homeless, inspiration, Mother, non-profit, spirit, women

I’ve recently joined a business referral networking group (a stretch and an education for an artist!). We are supporting The Living Room here in Santa Rosa through Sonoma County’s outstanding annual Human Race, a truly creative and open-hearted event. Some of the fun takes place on the pavement through efforts by thousands of runners and walkers, and some of the fun and good works take place behind the scenes, for example right here. (In 2016 there were over 8,000 participants with almost $600,000 raised to date for over 225 nonprofits who will benefit from the event. The first Human Race in 1981 raised $1,800.) I invite you to learn about the important services that the Living Room provides for homeless and at-risk women and children and to make a contribution if you are so moved. $10, $20, $50, or an amount of your choice. This is a straight donation fundraiser. No Pledges. Thank you so much for caring and helping our community thrive. Follow link to donate:
humanracenow.org/Participation/BNIMidDayPowerPartners

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

I’m excited to be offering two plein air painting workshops in May

12 Wednesday Apr 2017

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art, Art workshops, Drawing, En plein air, Event, Landscape, Laufenburg Ranch, Oils, Painting, Pastel, Pepperwood Preserve, Sonoma county, Sonoma Land Trust, Watercolor, Workshops

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

barns, California, Environment, nature, spirit

These painting workshops will be held at stunning Sonoma County sites that are only accessible via the conservation groups that protect them from development, Pepperwood Preserve and Laufenburg Ranch. Painting in community, with guidance and support from an enthusiastic and practiced plein air painter, could be a great way to kick off your summer painting season or vacation time. You are welcome to join us for one or both sessions, whether you are an experienced painter or haven’t picked up a bush or pastel since childhood. Scientists, hikers, and students, painting and drawing deepen your powers of observation which translates to many disciplines.

IMG_1318.jpg

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

Two Landscape Painting Workshops

09 Sunday Apr 2017

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art, Art workshops, Drawing, En plein air, Event, Landscape, Laufenburg Ranch, Oils, Painting, Pastel, Pepperwood Preserve, Sonoma county, Sonoma Land Trust, Watercolor, Workshops

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

barns, bucolic, California, Calistoga, creeks, Environment, expressionist, hillsides, impressionist, inspiration, Mt. St. Helena, nature, orchards, realist, spirit, techniques, tonalist, wildflowers

Marsha Connell #PaintCamp - Version 2.jpg

Recording & Expressing “Spirit of Place”

Sunday, May 7, 2017, 9am – 3pm
Pepperwood Preserve
2130 Pepperwood Preserve Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Meet at the Bechtel House
$45 per participant ($40 for members)
For ages 13 and up

Explore plein air painting with artist and Santa Rosa Junior College instructor Marsha Connell. Deepen your naturalist and artist observational skills. Express your responses to Pepperwood’s verdant and blossoming spring landscape. Open to beginning painters, who will learn basics of working in the field, and experienced painters, who may expand their repertoire and enjoy support for finding their own voice. Demonstrations will be given in oil and pastel,  but students may use any drawing or painting media of their choice.

Marsha’s approach to landscape painting conveys the spirit of place and evokes the mood of the inner landscape. Marsha has also taught at Sonoma State University and at a variety of other venues in the US, Mexico and France.

A suggested materials list will be sent upon registration.

Reserve your spot

Painting Iconic Rural Landscapes

Saturday May 13, 2017, 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Class level: All levels
Class Size: 6-15

$60 per person, $45 per Sonoma Land Trust member

Learn how to convey the spirit of place and embody the rhythms and forms of the landscape in this plein air painting workshop at Sonoma Land Trusts’ legendary Laufenburg Ranch near Calistoga. Beginning and longtime artists alike can benefit from Marsha’s expertise and extensive history of teaching, which brings out the joy of the creative process.

Enjoy a day in the bucolic setting of Laufenburg Ranch in Knight’s Valley. Create a record of your experience, which might include the magnificent 1883 barn, native oaks, old orchards, creek and hillsides, even Mt St Helena, by painting in the field. Explore gesture, shape, composition, light and shadow. Beginning artists: learn the basics of using painting materials and composing images. Experienced painters: expand your repertoire of painting techniques and visual approaches, realist, tonalist, impressionist, expressionist. Demonstrations will be given in oil and pastel, but you may use any drawing or painting media of your choice.

Materials Required: You will be able to do this with simple minimal supplies, for example, just black and white or three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) of oil or acrylic, and one brush, or a basic small set of pastels, or any materials you may already have.

Sign up here

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

3 Art Receptions for 3 Great Events

18 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art, Drawing, En plein air, Event, Exhibits, gallery, Landscape, Museum, Oils, Painting, Watercolor, Winery

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

artists, California, community, Environment, flowers, gallery, garden, inspiration, joy, nature, originals, reflections, spirit, weekends

image007-768x579

Sunday, October 23, 2-5 pm, La Crema Estate at Saralee’s Vineyard

La Crema Estate at Saralee’s Vineyard, 3575 Slusser Road, Windsor, CA, is hosting an Artists’ Reception, welcoming collectors, aficionados and friends to view the Estate’s permanent collection of artwork, and a revolving exhibit changing seasonally, through our partnership with Healdsburg Center for the Arts. We are currently featuring fourteen large expressive landscape drawings and paintings by Marsha Connell. (Exhibit dates August 15-January 15) View and purchase the art online.

Our permanent collection highlights a diverse selection of local artists, including James Armstrong, Elaine Greenwood, Chris Henry, Cari Hernandez, Dusanka Kralj, Benjamin Owen, and Paula Strother.

We invite you to enjoy these fabulous artworks, and light hors d’oeuvres expertly paired with La Crema’s acclaimed wines, including selections only available at the Estate, in a panoramic vineyard setting.  

              RSVP appreciated: marsha@marshaconnell.com

AWS Meeting Photos September 2016 123a

Friday, October 21, 6-7:30 pm,  Sebastopol Center for the Arts

A Cabin Above a Lake
began as a demo for AWS (Art Workshop of Western Sonoma County), just last month, inspired by small plein air paintings from our recent East Coast annual summer sojourn. As Helen Frankenthaler once said, ” I had the landscape in my arms when I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.” After revisiting it in my studio, I entered the painting in this juried exhibit, and am pleased that juror Sukey Bryan selected it, (along with about 56 other works from a pool of almost 700 entries).  Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 High Street. Exhibit dates: Oct 21 – Nov 27, 2016. I’d be pleased if you joined me at the Artists’ reception for YOUR LANDSCAPE.  

Marsha Connell's Murder of Crows Painting in Peter Perez's altar for Day of the Dead, Sonoma county History Museum, 2016.jpg

Saturday, October 22,  6 pm – 8 pm, History Museum of Sonoma County

Reception for  Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Altars. This exhibition brings together altars created by community members, festive artwork and three-dimensional sculpture associated with the Day of the Dead celebration. I am honored that Peter Perez requested that my painting, Thinking About Bonnard, from my Murder of Crows series, be included in his altar against violence.

Exhibit runs October 18 – November 27.

The reception in the History Museum of Sonoma County is concurrent with a reception in the adjacent Art Museum of Sonoma County, for Faith Ringgold: An American Artist featuring storyquilts, works on paper, tankas, soft sculpture, and original illustrations.

Exhibit runs October 23 – January 29.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

Art Trails Open Studios – My Plein Air Suitcase

04 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art, Drawing, En plein air, Exhibits, Landscape, Oils, Open Studios, Painting, Pastel, Sonoma County Art Trails, Watercolor

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

artists, California, conversations, Environment, flowers, gallery, garden, home, inspiration, journeys, large works, map, mountain, nature, ocean, originals, small works, Sonoma county, studio, suitcase, weekends

It will be as easy as 1-2-3 to find my studio the next 2 weekends. It’s #123 on the Art Trails map. 10am-5pm. Come see what came out of my suitcase from my recent plein air painting journeys, West Coast to East, ocean to mountain, and back home in Sonoma county, and how it inspires studio work. Drawings, pastels, oils, watercolors. Small works to large. Hope to see you!

group-post-card

Here’s a great map of most of the artists in the Northeast Santa Rosa area participating in Art Trails. #123 is just about in the middle.

art-trails-group-postcard-back

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

Landscape Painting: Observation and Expression

04 Tuesday Mar 2014

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art workshops, En plein air, Landscape, Painting, Workshops

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

abstract sensibility, acrylics, artist in residence, brushstrokes, California, Calistoga, colorist, drawing, ecological, Environment, expression, Expressionism, Impressionism, landscapes, Marsha Connell, nature, observation, oils, painterly, pastels, Pepperwood Preserve, Realism, sanctuary, Santa Rosa, scientists, Sonoma county, Tonalism

Sunday, April 6, 9am – 3pm
A Daylong Workshop
at Pepperwood Preserve

located between the towns of Santa Rosa and Calistoga, CA

IMG_8224

 Enjoy an outing in a spectacular Sonoma County environment!
Explore the art of plein air painting with artist and Santa Rosa Junior College instructor Marsha Connell.Deepen your observational skills and express your visual responses to the verdant and blossoming spring landscape of Pepperwood Preserve.Beginning painters will learn basics of working in the field.

Experienced painters may expand their repertoire with elements of realism, impressionism, expressionism, and more, with support for finding their own voice.

Demonstrations will be given in oil paint.

Students may use any media. Oils, acrylics, or pastels recommended.

RESERVE NOW

FEES: $35 per participant
($30 for Pepperwood Preserve members)
Ages 14 and up are welcome.

Meet at the Bechtel House. Class will be held rain or shine. There is a grand view and shelter available.

A suggested supply list will be sent upon registration.

IMG_0332

About Pepperwood Preserve

The Pepperwood Foundation gave Marsha Connell an artist in residence grant to study the Preserve through the discipline of drawing and painting, and to share the process and the Preserve with the public.Pepperwood is a 3,120 acre nature preserve and an ecological institute dedicated to educating, engaging, and inspiring our community through habitat preservation, science-based conservation, leading-edge research, and interdisciplinary educational programs.  As one of the largest scientific preserves in Northern California, Pepperwood provides a sanctuary for wildlife and affords a native habitat for its flora and fauna to thrive.We welcome visitors to Pepperwood! In support of our mission, we are careful to control visitor access so Pepperwood may be enjoyed for generations to come. Please keep in mind that individual access to Pepperwood Preserve is offered primarily via our educational programs and posted special events. We invite you to join our community of life long learners and citizen scientists united through our passion for nature!
 DSCN2518

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

Marsha Connell Studio

  • About
  • Contact and Social Media
  • Gallery Five – Seasonal Paintings, A Pepperwood Sonata
  • Gallery Four – Artist in Residence at Pepperwood Preserve
  • Gallery One – Lakes and Gardens
  • Gallery Seven – Pastel Landscape and Still Life
  • Gallery Six – A Murder of Crows
  • Gallery Three – Hats on Broadway
  • MEET SONOMA COUNTY ARTIST MARSHA CONNELL by Satri Pencak
  • Gallery Two – Pond in Bloom
  • Art Workshops

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Follow via RSS

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments

Marsha Connell Studio

Marsha Connell Studio

Articles

  • Gathering Clouds Magazine past Issue #2 (3) "Color & Mood" Marsha Connell and others. . .”My paintings are a dance in color, a moving meditation in the landscape,” pages 4-9.

Artist Website

  • Sally Baker

Blogroll

  • WordPress.com
  • WordPress.org

Books

  • A Murder of Crows: Three Artists, Three Objects, Three Images Catalog of an exhibit by Sally Baker, Marsha Connell, Micah Schwaberow. This exhibit has traveled and is available to more venues! *Murder is the collective noun used to describe a group of crows.

Collections

  • Art Talk / The Doyle Collection / Santa Rosa Junior College Libraries Art Talk captures the inspirations and experiences of artists showcased in The Doyle Collection. Click on each artwork to see the full set of videos for each artist.
  • The Doyle Collection, Santa Rosa Junior College Library I am honored to have three paintings included in this permanent collection: “Dissolve – Three Tree Hill”, “Salmon Barn”, and “Dusk at Duncan’s Landing”. They can be viewed on the 4th floor of the Doyle Library.

Fundraising website

  • Amy's Healing Journey: A Fund- and Spirit- Raiser Fundraising website for Amy Connell

My Art Website

  • Marsha Connell Fine Art Expressive Landscape Paintings, Dream Vessels Collages, Workshops

Nature Preserve

  • Pepperwood Preserve

Archives

  • April 2021
  • September 2020
  • February 2019
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • October 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • October 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • October 2013
  • May 2013

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • Marsha Connell Studio
    • Join 59 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Marsha Connell Studio
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: