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Boothe, Taylor return with 11th annual art show |
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Saturday, 18 April 2009 |
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Register Staff
4-16-2009 Next weekend marks the 11th year that Jill Kinmont Boothe and Carol Taylor will have hosted the annual Spring Art Show and Sale for locals and visitors in town for the Eastern Sierra Fishing Season Opener. Mickey Short will join them with her beautiful watercolors for the second year.
The show will be held from 1-6 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the home of Jill Boothe, 310 Sunland Dr. in Bishop.
Taylor will again be showing her watercolor still life and landscapes. “I hope to convey a beauty and joy of life by invoking a nostalgic and pleasant feeling to the viewer through my paintings,” Taylor said.
This year she will feature paintings of gardens from different parts of the country.
Limited edition Giclee prints of Taylor’s work will be available at the show. The paintings offered in print are “Hollyhocks” and “Lupine at Division Creek.”
Taylor was a guest artist for the Altrusa Club Art Show in 1999, and won Best of Show at the Altrusa show in 2002. She has recently shown her work at the Lone Pine Film Museum, along with other students of the Henry Fukuhara workshop. She teaches watercolor and has taught for the Adult Education program in the Inyo County Schools. Taylor shows her work in her studio at home.
Short was introduced to watercolor by English watercolorist Bert Wright, president of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Short attended Ventura College and studied with Norman Kirk, and continued her studies attending workshops with Eric Weigardt, Dale Laitenin and Sally Miller.
Short comes from a family sprinkled with artists, one of whom was California impressionist Guy Rose. She has become an avid plein air painter. Plein air means painting outside rather than in a studio, from the French phrase en plein air or “in the open air.”
After retiring from careers in skiing and boating she moved to Bishop, where she established the Eastern Sierra Plein Air Painters.
Short was a Mammoth local from 1972-78 and worked for the Mammoth Mountain Ski School as a certified ski instructor. She then moved to June Lake and was ski school director for June Mountain until 1988.
A love of sailing took Short and her husband to Channel Islands Harbor where she was a marina manager for 10 years. While in the beach area she studied art at Ventura Community College and became an active member of the Buenaventura Art Association and the California Gold Coast Watercolor Society. She received the Ventura Community College Art Department Merit Award in 1999 and has since received many awards for her work.
She returned to the Eastern Sierra and made her home in Bishop in 1999. Short shares her studio garden on Shepard Lane with several hens who make appearances in many of her paintings. In 2006 she received the Best of Division, Professional Art at the Tri-County Fair for her watercolor “Virginia City.” Prints of this painting will be available at the show.
Short’s work can be seen at Twin Lakes Gallery in Mammoth Lakes, and at the Inyo Council for the Arts in Bishop.
Boothe has been dabbling in watercolor painting for as long as she can remember. She even recalls being awestruck by the easels on her first day in kindergarten. She was always selected as art chairman for any school project.
She and her brother, Bob, under the instruction of Bishop High School art teacher and watercolorist Aim Morhardt, began to enjoy the art of watercolor painting during high school. Boothe’s favorite subjects are of the Owens Valley, and the mountains, lakes and streams of the Eastern Sierra. She said she is always fascinated by the ever-changing light and seasonal differences found in the area, but trying to capture these subtleties in her watercolor painting is always challenging.
Boothe also enjoys creating ink drawings of old houses, barns and various early structures in the Owens Valley. This year she will offer a series of pieces featuring old barns of the area. Boothe will also be offering signed, limited-edition Giclee prints of some of her paintings.
Since retirement from teaching in 1996, Boothe devotes much of her time to painting in her studio from photos provided by her husband and friends. Her paintings and drawings are all matted and framed by her husband, John.
As a special feature, during the show this year the artists will set up their easels and demonstrate their watercolor painting techniques.
The show is open to all who wish to come and enjoy it. Refreshments will be served.
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