Plein Air Painting and Raku Ceramics Show

As I mentioned earlier, today is First Friday. If you are not familiar with this term – it is a day when all galleries in downtown (in many towns) are open and have something on display, and also there are some refreshments, such as cheese and grapes, and sometimes some wine.

The latter, not the wine, but cheese and grapes part, was a major argument when we were teaching our students to attend such events.

If you are familiar with First Friday events, and attended them in the past – no matter what city you live in, and no matter if it is a First Friday, or a Second Friday, or a Last Friday, or whatever – you will be happy that such events are coming back. Since COVID and lockdown started in 2020, we all were longing for such events, when artists are gathering together, when cheese and wine are in abundance and laughter and art go together hand in hand.

These events are coming back, as well as our freedom to travel and live our lives and I hope this progress will continue.

So, here! Please, come to the First Friday event in Chinatown Honolulu if you are around. If not, I am sorry, but hope you enjoy some photos I have taken while hanging my work.

The address of the new Downtown Art Center is: 1041 Nuuanu Ave, Honolulu. Exhibition is on the 2nd floor.

I promise I will take more photos at the event today, especially since I forgot to take photos of all my works while installation was in progress. But here are a few:

N1:

Composition with a Tree. Oil on canvas. 12″x12″.

This painting was done on plein air in Ho’omaluhia Botanical Gardens

N2:

Water-n-Rocks. Oil on Canvas. 9″x12′.

This painting was done on plein air at Makapu’u Beach

Now I have to show the photo of how it is hanging on the gallery wall. I was really excited how these two paintings fit with the raku ceramics. The ceramics artists was helping me to hang my pieces, and she was also really excited about the fact that our work was WORKING together!

We discussed the fact that we both use natural Hawaiian colors in our work – blue/green of the sky and water, browns of the trees and rocks. You can see my excited face here:

My excited face with N2 and N3 paintings plus Raku Ceramics.

And here is a photo showing you are truly beautiful space of this gallery:

Yes, as you can see on this photo – I have a special shoe on one foot – it was a foot surgery. Nothing serious, and I am recovering now.

The tree painting below N 4 was done in Foster Botanical garden in Honolulu. It is very special tree – it was presented to Mary Foster and it is a direct descendant of that very tree under which Siddhartha Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment in the sixth century B.C. I was very curious about this story and here is what I found: The story of how this tree appeared in Honolulu

This is a link to the video of how my tree painting looks with the ceramics in the gallery. I just give you a link to my instagram page since I want you to follow me there! I am not sure if you see it in the video very well, but the ceramics pieces not only match with the colors of my painting. They are also meditative ceramic lamps that glow with a soft flickering light. I think there cannot be a better match with my Buddha Tree painting!

This is all for now! I am very excited and happy and proud to be in this show!

Aloha to all of you, and I hope some of you can come to see the show in person!

Aloha!

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