Shown here is my painting entitled “Sisters”, an 11 x 14 Oil on canvas. It’s headed out to Memphis and Artreach Gallery in Germantown for their “Horse Country” art show. This event coincides with the Germantown Charity Horse Show and celebrates not only equine subjects, but the country landscape as well. “Alias”, “Just an Itch”, and “Heels Down” will also be making the trip to west Tennessee. The show will be hanging through most of the month of June.
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Last night was the opening for my Solo Show at Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville.
Considering the fact that we are experiencing the devastation of a “1000″ year flood….well….some die hard people showed up and it was a very pleasant evening shared with old friends and new!
Belle Meade Plantation itself was very lucky to be on high enough ground that it did not suffer terrible damage. Yes, the basement was flooded a bit but I was told that it is a manageable problem and they are thankful because it could have been so much worse. The roads surrounding the Plantation left it like an island last weekend. So many are suffering in the area from the aftermath of last week’s storm. Nashville is an awesome community and we are coming together to help those of us who really lost so very much. Personally, our home was spared, but many friends homes were not. It is overwhelming….. but it just takes one step at a time….. Nasvhille could really use your prayers for quite a while.
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Okay….for anyone who might read my blog today….You get a sneak peak !
My solo exhibition will run at Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville , TN from May 1 – May 30, 2010. The opening reception / wine tasting is on May 6th, 5:30 – 7:30 at the Art Gallery in the Visitor Center. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided by Belle Restaurant and there will be
wine from Spain provided by West Meade Wines. If you live in or near Nashville, you know where Belle Meade is…..but just in case….. here’s the address: 5025 Harding Pike, Nashville, TN 37205
The history of Belle Meade is a rich and important story in the development of the Thoroughbred Industry in the United States. As an Equine artist, that’s why I am so happy and honored to have an exhibition here at such an historic place.
Here is the link to Belle Meade’s “horse history”.
http://www.bellemeadeplantation.com/Horses/Horses/
I have added 7 new works to my collection specifically for this show and I have posted one of them here….. “Alias” 22 x 28 Oil on canvas.
If you are in town….I’d love to see you at the opening !
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This afternoon my hubby and I went to see the Lipizzaner Stallions at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. I think this is my 4th time seeing them and I still get a lump in my throat and teary eyes at sometime during the show, never fail ! I remember my Dad taking me to Philadelphia to see them when I was a teenager so many years ago. It will NOT be the last time I see them either because they are living history. I’ll never get tired of watching them. Their beauty is just manifested on so many levels…it’s really hard to put into words. We got floor seats for the first time and I am thrilled to have gotten the chance to watch the show from that position. Looking UP at those majestic horses just 6 feet away…. WOW. So, if they come to your town please support their show by attending and cheering them on …loudly !
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This weekend is the annual Art in Bloom Art Show and Sale presented by the Gallatin Junior Service League. This show benefits women’s and children’s charities of the greater Gallatin, Sumner Co. TN area. I’m bringing along some more small wildlife paintings to add to the horses this year. For example, shown here is “Red Fox Backlight” , a 5 x 7 oil on canvas, $160. Our local fox has no idea how many images he has inspired ! I haven’t seen him for a while but hope he survived this winter, which for Tennessee , was a cold one.
Spring can’t be far away……makes me want to paint foals, baby goats,sheep and birds etc !
Come on out to the Bluegrass Country Club on Johnny Cash Parkway this weekend on Saturday and see what 40 local artists have to show ! It’ll be an eclectic mix of styles….. something for everyone.
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This past weekend was spent at the David Lipscomb Campus School in Nashville at their annual
Art Event. This shot is of my space at the show. It was a great weekend full of meeting many friendly art show attendees and some new area artists. One of my favorite perks of doing these shows is getting to know the artists that are set up around you. It’s a great way to connect considering that artists spend a lot of solitary time in the studio and the shows are a great way to catch up with each other. The people running the show at Lipscomb could not have been more kind or more helpful to the artists….that is so appreciated!
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We’ve been hit with a winter storm here in Tennessee and everything has come to a screeching halt! We don’t have enough plows and such to clear away all the snow , so what is normal everyday weather for much of the US…..isn’t so normal for us. It is such a treat to see the snow covering everything because it just doesn’t happen that much around here, so we appreciate it and we are intimidated by it. So, everybody stays home. We’ve had a great day cocooning inside except for venturing out for a winter time photo shoot to gather references. I can see the tracks of my fox friend that lives outside of our fence line. I put some leftover turkey out for him tonight. I know my canadian friends are laughing at me right now….but hey….this snow is big news for us 
!
I’ve also attached a shot of a corner of my studio and you can see the twilight snowy evening out of the window. You can also see my nice new taboret that just arrived a few weeks ago and it really helped my organization in the studio. It is a “Todd Reifers” workstation and so far I really like it. It looks all clean now but I’ll probably have it all paint splotched before long. It has storage and a generous sized top for paint mixing. It also has a cover that you can pull up and over your paint overnight and I find that it helps keep the paint from drying out quite so much.
So, looks like tomorrow I can enjoy painting and looking out at this winter wonderland….. what a treat.
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I felt like a kid at Christmas …… that might describe my feeling when I went to the mailbox yesterday and found a package from the Chronicle of the Horse Magazine letting me know that one of my paintings (Beech Grove Blessing) had been chosen for their Dec. 11, 2009 issue. I remember reading the magazine back in the 70′s (cover to cover and when it was in black and white) during my riding years. I suppose that’s why I am particularly happy about making the cover now. Heck, I still read the magazine cover to cover ! I think of my Dad and how happy he would be for me that I am having the opportunity to pursue my dream as an artist…….
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My husband loves Italy. He has opened that world to me and now I love it too.
We joke about the fact that I don’t see enough horses when we go there. Lots of wonderful olive groves and vineyards stretching to the horizon, but not a lot of horses. So, I found inspiration in the beautiful horses in the fountains of Rome. I plan on another painting of the Trevi fountain soon, but this year I finished a painting of one of the fountains in the Villa Borghese Park.
The sparkling Italian sun on the water trickling over the edge was beautiful to me and I loved the colors that reflected all over the gray stone sculpture. I couldn’t wait to paint it and so here it is….”the Fountain of the Sea Horses”.
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From time to time I’ll post a small painting that I don’t normally post on my website.
In the future I may make a website page for small works, but until then…here’s an example of my latest, entitled “Lucky Saddle”. It is a 5 x 7 . My small works often are studies for larger paintings. Some turn out to be little gems in and of themselves. Good thing is, they are affordable original oil paintings that fit into many budgets, especially in these days of the economic pinch. The next one is “Jockey Study” also a 5 x 7. The third is sold, entitled “Mini Amigos”, 5 x 7.
Contact me at jpj@lakehillstudio.com if you are interested in prices. Just put “small works inquiry” in the email title.
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The last three weeks have been an adventure and great time as my hubby and I drove around
Italy. He drove, I navigated. Good thing because you’ve got to be an aggressive driver to keep up over there and I would have probably had a meltdown trying to just leave the rental car area at the Rome airport !
Anyway…. I’m always on the lookout for horses of course and let me tell you, they are few and far between in Italy as far as I can tell. I will look through and see what I can find and post those later. But for now….I’ll mention our two days in Amsterdam (because of a layover on the way home) and our museum packed 48 hours in that city. I was surprised at how much I liked Amsterdam. I think I had a preconception about certain negative aspects of the city that I had heard about, but realized that it is largely a beautiful place and the Van Gogh and Ryks ( Rembrandt) museum is worth the visit all by themselves.
Apart from those museums…there is also the actual home of Rembrandt that has been
preserved and the contents carefully reconstructed. So here are some shots of Rembrandt’s studio and it’s contents. The shots are not so sharp because I had to be a little fast to get them without other tourists walking through and also, there was no flash allowed within the house.
( there…my excuses for my lackluster photos !) Still, the feeling of standing in the same spot where Rembrandt worked and lived…… In the words of Van Gogh…”we artists are all but links in a chain” we all learn from the ones who came before…….. standing where you know that the great masters had been…… I think any artist would feel that connection.
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It’s August 1st and this is the month where I am the featured artist on the website for “The Judges Choice Equine Classifieds”. It was nice of them to ask and I was happy to oblige .
Here’s the link: www.thejudgeschoice.com
I have shown here my painting entitled “Breaktime” which is one of the images that they show on the website. I painted this one because I was really attracted by the rider in shadow and the horse in the light. They also show that common activity between classes…..just taking a break and resting up for the next activity. The way the rider kept her hand on the horses muzzle just reminded me of that special bond between these two teamates. This painting is in the collection of Ms. Ellen Johnson of New Jersey.
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Had a great time this week doing some studies of wolves. After painting a few smaller studies I came up with this 8 x 10 called “Edge of The Woods”. I think I’d like to do a larger much more detailed painting of wolves sometime soon…they are really beautiful animals with the greys,warm browns and whites, not to mention gorgeous eyes! Back to my horses next week….a dressage painting is calling my name.
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This horse seemed dressed appropriately for the 4th of July Closing weekend at Churchill Downs.
My family all made the three hour drive to Louisville for a day at the races. No , I didn’t win anything…..but that hardly matters because the photo ops were fantastic. We all had a great day full of a lot of laughs and beautiful horses. We were happy to have the chance to see Calvin Borel that day and my impression of him as being a genuinely nice person is only reinforced after seeing him interact with his fans after the races. When the day was done and he wasn’t in a hurry to get on to preparing for the next race, he stopped and gave all of his goggles to some kids awaiting a chance for an autograph….. they were thrilled. It was just one of those great days all around.
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Here’s “You Go First”…the last painting that I finished a few weeks ago. These two Montana paint horses were happily grazing away near Anaconda, Montana last summer when I interrupted their privacy with my skulking around the fence line. Hubby was endlessly finding places to pull the car over every time I spotted horses grazing in that beautiful Montana scenery.
I’d never been out there until last summer when we made a whirlwind trip to a friend’s wedding. It was incredible. I totally understand why people fall in love with the west. We live in a beautiful country and to travel around experiencing the nuances of all the regions…..it’s a blessing.
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Sometimes good news comes right when you need it. The Canadian Warmblood Association has chosen “First Class Flight” as it’s 2009 poster art , brochure and advertising image for their Fall Breeder’s Classic. I almost didn’t submit this painting because of it being a horizontal image and most all of the past images have been vertical. But obviously I submitted anyway and I’m glad I did. I can be pretty good at talking myself OUT of things …….but I’m working on it.
The painting itself is a 24 x 36 oil on canvas. They will auction the original off to start the Breeder’s auction in Alberta this fall.
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This weekend is “The Best is Yet to Come Art show and Sale” benefiting the Pets of Putnam County Humane Society in Cookeville, Tn. I’ll be there with some of my work and hoping for a good turnout for a worthy cause. The patron party is on Saturday evening June 6th and the show continues on Sunday 2 p.m. thru 6 p.m.
call 931-858-2228 for ticket information.
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I am so glad to have gotten the chance to go up to Lexington this past weekend to revel in the wonderful world that is the Rolex CCI**** Kentucky 3 day event ! I almost missed going this year and I know that I just can’t let that happen again. Seeing the olympic caliber horses and riders who you know have worked so hard to make it to this level of the sport…it’s just exhilarating to say the least. Following the Eventing USA blog has helped me keep up with who was going to be competing this year…and only added to the excitement and anticipation. The photo that I posted here is of Syd Kent, ridden by Jan Byyny from the USA.
I certainly filled up my flash cards full of references for future artwork for sure. Each year my photography skills get just a little better and more and more of the photos are keepers. I never claimed to be a sports photographer, I really have to respect the work that those people do! I work from my own reference shots and so between all of them…I can get the info that I need.
My husband went with me for the first time and he was enthusiastic learning about the sport. To see him also appreciate something that I feel so passionate about warmed my heart . We had a great time enjoying the crystal clear spring days. 364 days and counting until next year’s Rolex……. .
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