Come See Us This Weekend in One of the Best Art Shows in the US, September 8-9

The 10th Alexandria Festival of the Arts on King Street from the waterfront to the Washington Blvd will take place this coming weekend, from 10 to 7 Saturday and 10 to 5 Sunday, September 8 and 9. This will feature artists from around the country in what has been rated in art magazines as one of the very top art shows in the U.S.

I will be displaying my new cave art as part of the show, near Lee Street in the 100 block of King Street, booth number 181.  I  am  happy to have been in all ten Alexandria Art Festivals.  

As one of the show events, the Art Festival committee will have a drawing on Sunday afternoon for one of my small cave paintings.  So, please drop by and sign up for the drawing.

You can also stop by our gallery, where partner Lelia Beall will hold open our B&B 215 King Street Art Gallery during the Art Festival, a block up King Street from my booth.  And my husband Bob will have a table at the building entrance offering gallery works for sale.  

Hoping to see you this weekend,  Martha

www.beallandbrumbaugh215.com

B&B 215 King Street Art Gallery in Old Town Alexandria

As we approach the start of our Gallery's second year, we welcome you to enjoy the art displayed on our 2nd floor gallery.  In the past few months, my partner, Lelia Beall, and I have welcomed new artists to the gallery, including Vera Gridasova, born in southern Russia, who does exciting colorful abstract paintings in acrylic with carandash on paper.  And we have enthusiastically welcomed the arrival of many paintings of Old Town doorways and Washington monuments by my former studio mate, Jane Andrle Gillette, who now lives in Port Aransas, TX.   You can see some of these works and others on our gallery website -.www.beallandbrumbaugh215.com

Update: Beall And Brumbaugh 215 King Street Gallery

Our opening is now set for Friday, October 28. Among the artists my gallery partner--Lelia Beall--and I expect to join us for our opening exhibit are Ron Flemmings, Elizabeth Mechling, Gale McBrien, Patricia Uchello, Cindi Lewis, Phyllis Sidorsky, Janice Connally, Charles Kolb, and Jane Andrle.

Gallery Hours for the opening weekend:

Friday 11am - 7pm

Saturday 11am - 7pm

Alexandria Art Festival 2011 Saturday

The Art Festival opened yesterday to a most welcome and beautiful weather day. Our art booth number is 181 in the 100 block of King Street. We saw many friends who stopped by and made many new art friends! All this in addition to a very eagerly anticipated opening of our art gallery and studio at 215 King Street, to open in October. More about this very soon. Today is 10-years since 9-11.

Susan Troup stopped by to visit us.

Bob and Wayne Beall enjoying the day at leisure.

Manayunk Art Festival along Schuylkill River

We thoroughly enjoyed our first year at the Manayunk Art Festival upstream from downtown Philadelphia. We come from Old Town Alexandria, but found out that Manayunk was founded around 60 years earlier. Thanks to all who stopped by the booth.

The photos display the panels at the early show set up.

Boardwalk Art Show, Virginia Beach

We dodged afternoon thunderstorms except for final two hours--a most pleasant show with hordes of visitors.

Preparing for Virginia Beach Boardwalk & Manayunk Shows

Come visit me in the Virginia Beach Boardwalk Show, booth 1819 (between 18th & 19th Streets), June 16-19.

Basement studio midst painting for June art shows.

This will be my first show featuring cave paintings since Werner Herzog's film "The Cave of Forgotten Dreams" has been released, which featured the cave at Chauvet in the Ardeche, France.

Stockley Gardens Art Festival, Norfolk

We returned to the Stockley Gardens Spring Show in Norfolk. This a truly fine show in a great neighborhood--Ghent. That plus it is run for charity by Hope House Foundation, making it a unique art show!

At the Stockley Gardens Art Shows, I show my flower paintings, mostly watercolor, plus landscapes, some abstracted in watercolor

and/or

acrylic.

Photo of me is courtesy of Stuart Kerner, photographer and fellow exhibitor at Stockley.

Basement Studio, Spring 2011

Getting ready for Cave Art Shows at Virginia Beach Boardwalk Show and Manayunk Art Festival in Philadelphia, early Summer

Building Sells

Notice has been given to move my studio out by 31 January.

A final walk through of my art gallery.

We are now searching for a new gallery location and will let you know when we are relocated.

Alexandria Festival of the Arts

Once again, the Alexandria Festival of the Arts was a rousing success....large and enthusiastic crowds, perfect weather Saturday and drizzly day-turned beautiful by afternoon Sunday. Some booth and crowd shots.

Alexandria Festival of the Arts

Booth locations have been announced for the 8th Annual Festival, one of the largest and best ranked art shows in the nation--we are in the 100 block of King Street, close to Lee Street and opposite the Wharf Restaurant. Watercolor paintings are featured. Abstracted cave paintings using techniques capturing a dynamic energy specific to the art of the respective caves. The symbols and drawings known from a certain cave are arranged in a dynamic featuring not how it appears, but how it is noticed. Other watercolors are also abstracted using a very strucutred technique producing a strongly contrasting color array. Others are just fun interpretations. Among the large watercolor paintings are small 8x10 canvas paintings highlighting typical cave art animal sketches. There will also be a variety of canvas paintings in the "sale bin".

Return to Baltimore's ARTSCAPE extravaganza!!!

I returned to ARTSCAPE in late July after several years.

Many of the 350,000attendance (yes 350K) came by the booth, despite the hot weekend. My booth was in the center of the Maryland Institute College of the Arts complex. This booth featured only acrylics, no watercolors.This is one of the longest shows around (28 hours) as well as maybe the largest in the country, lasting from noon until late in the evening two of the three nights.

Please take a "walk" around my booth.

Cave Art Alive 56x44" $2500

Cave Art Fancy 48x48" $2400

Fun was had by all with a “New Orleans-like parade

Show Season Continues

I very much enjoyed my return in May to Stockley Gardens in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk, where I featured non-cave art.

In early June at the Frederick Art Festival, I returned to showing my cave art. The photo was taken by photographer Taverlee Laskauskas (Naha Fine Photography).

National Harbor International Art Festival 1-2 May

At National Harbor, I'm featuring cave paintings a la rouge. Red ochres were used in cave paintings and Martha has featured the color as if there had been plentiful suppliers to paint in red. I'll be in Booth 35. This shows is a few miles distant from my studio in Old Town Alexandria, just across the Potomac. Who knows...may even take a ferry to the show?

How different from the actual cave settings!

Red Rouge 30x36

Pech Merle a la Rouge 24x48

Font de Gaume Rouge

34x40