“Conversation Peace”

Oil on canvas

40 x 66 in.

Available through the artist

‘This painting was made after we finished an early morning paddle. My wife and I spent the early part of the day together watching out for wildlife in the interior of Algonquin Park in northern Ontario. Tracey called out to me “you are just in time for coffee” as I was painting a small study of this painting. We love to watch the sunrise together.

This made for time for reconnecting and catching up with the things that are important with each other. Hence the name ‘Conversation Peace’.

A few weeks ago, I was informed that Ducks Unlimited chose my painting for the 2017 Portfolio. I am so blessed. Thank you Lord.’

Biography

Olaf Schneider (b.1964) is a husband, father of two, and grandfather of six. He studied at the Ontario College of Art as well as Sheridan College. In 1986, while painting large scale outdoor advertising billboards for Mediacom, he acquired a strong practical foundation that would become integral to his work today.

He is greatly inspired by mentor Ron Grieg and Norman Rockwell.

For Olaf each piece represents an intense exploration and refinement of his personal pictorial sensitivities, especially as they relate to beauty, form, light, and shade. Composition, color, and craftsmanship are all elements that become the building blocks of his work. Olaf is a prolific painter who is inspired by the power and diversity of the northern landscape, and anything that needs a “second look”. An explorer by nature, he travels across North America and Europe to gain inspiration.

 “Each dab I make is stimulated by the details that I observe. I hope to see what others miss and then make it compelling. I push and alter the colors to suit my ravenous needs and I love to improvise on the spot.” 
Olaf has a passion for a variety of subjects. Through his art, he expresses his love for life and his affinity with vibrant colour.

“I like to use expressive and thick impasto brushstrokes or soft blended strokes to render a sense of movement and texture giving the painting a life of its own. My interpretation of colour also sets the dynamic mood. The tones often range from the darkest to the lightest in an effort to achieve maximum drama. This creative combination is spontaneous and intuitive.”

To keep his mind clear and focused he limits his exposure to all the media ‘noise’ we generally are pummelled with daily. He does not watch TV and restricts his time on the computer. He starts his day with God in prayer and meditation. Painting six to ten hours a day is common practice. Equally important to Olaf is continued growth and learning.

 
“I want to always have an open mind so that new ideas may come in. In the mind of an expert, there are few possibilities, but in the mind of an amateur they become endless. This is a God given gift and I value it greatly. If I am able to bring emotion, understanding, comfort, or joy into another’s life then I am using it wisely in His glory.”

Philosophy

Art is a celebration of life, and the making of art is an expression of the sacred spiritual discipline. If a painting could, for a moment, capture the attention and awareness of the viewer through visual harmony, carry on a dialogue, bring the viewer further than the call of the senses, beyond a momentary concern for the past or future, to a timeless state free from thought and self consciousness. Then the work has approached the realm of art, the realm of life. Art and money don’t mix.

View more of Olaf’s work at http://www.olaf.ca.

Solo Exhibitions

2016 – Tilting at Windmills Gallery, Vermont

2016 – Broadway Galleries, Virginia

2015 – Westmount Gallery, Ontario

2015 – Woodbine Raceway

2015 – International Artist Magazine June issue

2014 – Cannes France

2005–2013 – Westmount Gallery, Toronto

2011 – Royal Gallery, Rhode Island

2009 – Mercedes Benz, Ontario

2009 – Homer Watson Gallery

2008 – Gallery DeLisle

2005 – Hummingbird Centre

2004 – McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg

2003–2006 – International Artists Magazine

1998–2004 – Formula 1, Montreal & Indianapolis

Group Exhibitions

2014 – Chapel St. Bernardin, France

2014 – Le Cannet, France

2008–2013 – Westmount Gallery, Toronto

2013 – The Louvre, SNBA Salon, France

2009–2013 – Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Wisconsin

2013 – Galerie Demante, California

2012 – The Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists

2012 – Portrait Society of America

2011 – Thornwood Art Gallery, Texas

2011 – Canadian Heritage Art Gallery

2010–2013 – Toronto International Art Fair

2010 – Canadian Heritage Art Gallery, Toronto

2010 – Thornwood Art Gallery , Texas

2009 – Boston International Art Fair

2007–2011 – Miller Gallery, Ohio

2007 – Scottsdale Art Gallery, Arizona

2006 – Kipling Gallery Woodbridge, Ontario

2006 – Manitou Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2006 – Latino America International

2004–2006 – Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum

2002–2005 – Hummingbird Centre, Toronto

2000 – Living Arts Centre, Mississauga

1998–2002 – Molson Indy, Toronto & Vancouver

Publications

American Art Collector Magazine

Arabella Magazine

Houston Lifestyles and Homes

Ducks Unlimited 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011

Etobicoke Guardian

Scarborough Mirror

Vaughan Weekly

George Chuvalo Fight Against Drugs

International Artist

Art Fix

WPBS Television

Algonquin Park news

The Huntsville Forrester

24 Hours

Toronto Life

2004–2006 Magazin’art Biennial Guide

Creative Source 1989, 2004

Corporate and Private Collections

Ripley’s Aquarium Canada, Toronto

PCO – Construction Ltd.

The Haven on the Queensway, Toronto

The Good Shepard, Toronto

Mackenzie Financial, Toronto

Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto

Ducks Unlimited 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

Make a Wish Foundation

George Chuvalo Fight Against Drugs Foundation, Canada

Paul Smith’s College, New York

Make a Wish Foundation, Toronto

Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto & Montreal

Jessie Centre for Teenagers, Toronto

Ontario Provincial Police, Canada

Labatt Breweries Ltd. Ontario, Canada

Evian Canada

Gilles Villeneuve Museum, Quebec

Chapters Indigo Canada

Mercedes-Benz, Toronto

Ford Ontario

Ferrari North America

Apple Canada

Governor General of Madrid, Spain

L.L.C.B.O.

Art Gallery of Ontario

Centennial College

Van Moorehem Barristers, Ontario

Block Parents Foundation,  Canada

Current Gallery Representation

Chloe Gallery, San Francisco CA  415.531.5748

Eclipse Gallery, Huntsville ON  705.783.2579

Emma Butler, St. John’s NFLD  709.739.7111

Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa OK  918.664.4732

MountainMist Gallery, Cashiers NC  407.620.2685

Palm Avenue Fine Art, Sarasota FL  941.388.7526

Rendezvous Gallery, Vancouver BC  604.687.7466

Spa Fine Art Gallery, Saratoga NY  203.226.6934

Tilting Windmills Gallery, Manchester VT  802.362.3022

Westmount Gallery, Toronto ONT  416.239.5427

Westport Gallery, Westport CT  203.226.6934

“Shoreline Walk”

Oil

11 x 14 in

About the Artist:

“Her evocative plein air paintings express an intense response to observed nature, while her dynamic abstractions reflect a passionate energy and masterful sense of form.”

– From Dennis Wepman, Art Curator of Karpeles Museum.

Linda Richichi was born in Montgomery, New York. Richichi’s extensive plein air work since 1998 has given her a basis for creating studio pieces that are filled with nature’s energy.

Educational background:

– Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from SUNY New Paltz

– Art Students League in 1999 on Scholarship from the Pastel Society of America

– Years of study with modern masters including John P. Osborne at the Ridgewood Art

Institute.

Publications:

    –   The New York Times wrote about one of Linda’s workshops at the

Wainwright House in Rye, NY in 2015.

–   International Artist Magazine, Master Painters of the World, Pastel

    –   The American Artist Magazine

    –   Art Times Journal– solo exhibit critiqued favorably

by art critic and editor, Raymond J. Steiner.

Top Awards:

–    Ft. Myers, Paint the Beach, 2015 HMs, 2016 Third Place

• Voted national Best Intuitive Artist from About.com (then a NY Times company) Readers Choice award in 2012
• Best of Show Ontario Purchase Award, at the International Plein

Air Painters (I.P.A.P.) Fourth Worldwide Paint Out at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 2006.

Major commissions:

• Rowley Family Birthing Center at Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown, NY for an entire healing art collection and continues to collect her work.
• Mini Cooper in Ramsey, NJ.
• Mercedes Benz in NJ.
• Harness Racing Museum, Goshen, NY,  annual portrait 1996–present

Her landscape paintings traveled with the World Tour Exhibition titled “Far and Near Horizons” which included work of 20 Contemporary Landscape Artists selected from the International Plein Air Painters and the Landscape Artists InternationaI organizations.

Richichi was the first artist-in-residence at the SUNY Orange at the Newburgh Extension in 2008.

Richichi conducts workshops in the US, Italy, and on cruise ships.

Her work has been found in galleries around the North America including NYC, NY, PA, FL, WI, NJ, CO, and both coasts of Canada. She regularly showed in various galleries in the Hudson Valley Region and in NYC.  Richichi now lives permanently in Sarasota, FL. She is represented by 530 Burns Gallery in Sarasota, FL and Nikki Sedacca Gallery, Edgartown, MA.

Past/ Present Memberships Include:

* Oil Painters of America

* Pastel Society of America (PSA)- Juried Associate member

* International Plein Air Painters (IPAP)- Signature Status

* New York Plein Air Painters (NYPAP)- Signature Status

* Portrait Society of America- Founding member (past)

* Landscape Artists International – Charter member

* Plein Air Florida

* Light Chasers

“Winter Whites”

Oil on linen

16 x 20 in

www.barbarajaenicke.com

About the Artist:

Barbara Jaenicke has had a fascination with snow since childhood. She’s always loved the look, sound and feel of snow, and even the smell in the air when it snowed. She grew up in New Jersey where she experienced occasional snow, but lived in Atlanta, Georgia when her painting career began. In the late ‘90s she began traveling with her husband to visit his family in Minnesota each winter, and the snowy landscape called to her. In May 2015, Barbara and her family relocated to Bend, Oregon, where snow is also plentiful, if not right in town, a short drive away in the mountains. “Winter Whites” is from a spot located near her home in Bend.

Barbara’s work is represented at Mockingbird Gallery in Bend, Oregon; The Artful Deposit in Bordentown, New Jersey; Stoneheart Gallery in Evergreen, Colorado and Weilerhouse Fine Art Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas.

Barbara’s instructional video series, which includes snow scenes, is available at www.paintingthepoeticlandscape.com.

Art from The Religious Academy’s “Southern Tour.” will be on display at the Blair Caldwell Library in Downtown Denver through the middle of January. Don’t miss your chance to see this historic show’s final location.

Artwork from Artists around the nation are featured in “Done it Unto The Least of These.” – A Tour taken through Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana as it relates to the Civil Rights. Stop’s included The Emmett Till Museum, South Carolina State Capital, Alabama State Capital, the front Lawn of the White House, Lexington KY Library, and many other places.

Artists from around the nation showed with us including Paul Grass, Marge Zylla, John Stadler, Eugene Hamilton, Dahne Anne, Dana Wood, Christine Fontenot, David Weaver, and many more. Visit www.livvnart.org to preview show and www.thereligiousacademy.com to see future shows today!

“Fall Treasures”

2016

Oil on linen

20 x 16 in.

Available through the artist

770.366.1448

About the Artist:

At the age of 12, Katherine Galbraith began her career as an artist with the sale of a

portrait painting. Now in addition to figurative work and commissioned portraiture, she also paints in studio and plein air landscapes and still lifes.

Katherine has had numerous one-woman shows in Atlanta, GA, Boston, MA, St. Simons Island and Sea Island, GA, Bronxsville, NY and Pittsburgh, PA.  In May 2013 Katherine opened The Station Art Gallery & Studio of Katherine Galbraith to showcase her work and offer classes. It is located in the restored NY Central Passenger Depot in Westfield, NY.

Portraiture clients have included corporation executives, leaders of religious and academic institutions and athletes. Many clients have later commissioned Katherine to paint members of their families

Her work can be found in private collections all over the world.  First favorably compared to John Singer Sargent’s in a review of her one-woman show in Raleigh, NC, Katherine’s work has appeared in national magazines, including International Artists Magazine, Art of the Portrait,

Fine Art Connoisseur, Veranda, Southern Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Where: Boston, Coastal Living and Coastal Illustrated.

Recent Awards & Notable Juried Shows:

2016    American Women Artists Annual Juried Exhibition, Bennington, VT: Finalist

2016    Portrait Society of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA: Finalist and Honorable Mention,

2016    Oil Painters of America 25th National Juried Exhibition, Dallas, TX

2016    Castine Plein Air Festival, Castine, ME

2015    Portrait Society of America Annual Members Only Competition: 3rd Place,

Outside the Box

2015    Oil Painters of America Salon Show, Birmingham, AL: Finalist

2014    Portrait Society of America Annual Members Only Competition:  1st Place,

Commissioned Portrait

2014    Bath County Plein Air Festival, Bath County, VA: Honorable Mention, Quick Paint

2014    Wayne Plein Air Festival, Wayne, PA:  Honorable Mention

2014    Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH

2013    Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition, Annapolis, MD

2012    Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, Fredericksburg, TX

2012    Gettysburg Plein Air Festival, Gettysburg, PA:  1st Place, Quick Paint

2009    Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM

Organizations:

Portrait Society of America

Oil Painters of America

American Women Artists

Galleries:

The Station Art Gallery & Studio of Katherine Galbraith, LLC – Westfield, NY

A Stroke of Genius / PortraitArtist.com

JDanielPortraits.com

The Art Loft – Mayville, NY

To view more of Katherine’s work, visit http://katherinegalbraithfineart.com/collections/75021