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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

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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

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Petits Bijoux Small Painting Jewels

10 Thursday May 2018

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art, En plein air, Exhibits, gallery, Healdsburg Plaza, Landscape, Oils, Painting, Pastel, Upstairs Art Gallery, Healdsburg

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Upstairs Art Gallery, 306 Center Street, Healdsburg

Please join May’s featured artists
MARSHA CONNELL and DAN SCANNELL
Saturday May 12, 2-5 pm for our artist reception

Petits Bijoux  Small Painting Jewels  by Marsha Connell

Plein air painter, Marsha Connell, is exhibiting a collection of Petits Bijoux, Intimate Scale Paintings from France to California, in the Upstairs Gallery’s Small Works Showcase. The Showcase is uniquely situated to be viewed as you climb up and down the staircase.

These “Small Jewels” celebrate encounters with wild and domestic landscapes, and traveled home in suitcases to tell the story. Marsha’s expressive and rhythmic brushstrokes are a dance of color, in oil and pastel.

Reaching the top of the stairs, you can meander in Marsha’s larger scale garden paintings, from the coast to tabletop bouquets.

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Creek at Bowling Ball Beach by Marsha Connell, oil, 12 x 12″

Upstairs Art Gallery is on the Mezzanine above Levin Books on the Healdsburg Plaza, across from the Gazebo.

Stop in anytime to view this month-long show, open daily 11-6, hosted warmly by the dozen plus artist/owners.

PictureSnow and Wildflowers 1 by Marsha Connell, oil on canvas, 12″x12″

I’m a new partner and will be hosting the gallery:
Saturday May 19, 3-6; Sunday May 20, 2-6; Sunday May 27, 11-6.

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Renoir’s Bridge 1 by Marsha Connell, oil on canvas, 7 ½”x 9 ½”

Flora and Fauna in Silver and Gold  by Dan Scannell

Dan Scannell’s new series was inspired by Japanese screens from the 19th century.

He became interested in the highly stylized nature scenes, and thought it would be interesting to create paintings based on Sonoma county flora and fauna. He then finished the backgrounds of these paintings using gold and silver leaf as Japanese artists did when making screens.

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Gold Magnolia by Dan Scannell

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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!

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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.

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Open Studio: Sonoma County ART Trails

06 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by Marsha Connell in Art, Art workshops, Landscape, Oils, Open Studios, Painting, Sonoma County Art Trails, Still Life, Watercolor, Workshops

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appointment, art, cards, Cloverdale, collages, Corrick's, crows, Dream Vessels, fields, flowers, Fulton Xrossing, gallery, hats, Icehouse Gallery, landscapes, Marsha Connell, Mt. St. Helena, Murder of Crows, music, October, oils, open studios, originals, paintings, Pepperwood Preserve, Petaluma, prints, Sally Baker, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma county, still life, studio, Vanitas, watercolor, weekends

August-Afternoon-for-emailIf you’re nearby, please do stop in! Map. If far, please enjoy a virtual visit by clicking links below. I’ll be delighted to see you or hear from you!

Journey with me through landscape and still life in oil and watercolor. . . enter the inner worlds of Dream Vessels Collages.

The upstairs studio is featuring skies and waterways,
downstairs is a gallery of fields and flowers.
Hats and a Murder of Crows may appear in surprising locations.

Originals grande and petite, prints, and cards. Many new small works and an opportunity to discover “specials” in all sizes. (I’m reducing studio inventory in preparation for a move. . . details yet to be revealed. . .)

You may also view paintings year round, by appointment,
at the studio, in your home or office, and at
ART Trails Gallery at Corrick’s  637 4th Street, Santa Rosa
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Follow my new blog Marsha Connell Studio, where you can also register for our November watercolor workshop at Pepperwood Preserve.

My paintings are in these current Sonoma County ART Trails exhibitions:
Sebastopol Center for the Arts (our new program sponsor), Corrick’s, Fulton Xrossing Gallery, Cloverdale Arts Alliance, Icehouse Gallery Petaluma.
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The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life.

Dream Vessels collage created for Take Five project of the 2014 Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival.

On exhibit at Corrick’s in October and at the Rialto Theater, Sebastopol, Tuesday, October 14, during the two screenings of award-winning film, The Lady in Number 6.

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  • 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.

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