Next Meeting - Larry Jon Davis
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:00 pm
FCCJ South Campus, Building G, Room 101
April 28, 2009 - Larry Jon Davis - Since his childhood in Clinton, Iowa, where he was born in 1944, the arts have always remained the chief interest for Larry Jon Davis. After a BA in Fine Art at the University of Iowa and four years with the USAF in England, Davis returned to the Midwest and began his professional arts career. Since his 1986 appointment at Florida Community College at Jacksonville he has continued artistic production and exhibition exposure as well as finishing Masters level study. He currently teaches FigureDrawing and Painting at FCCJ’s South Campus. In 1996 he was first included in the “Art in America” index of artists. In Jacksonville his works may be viewed at Stellers Gallery in Ponte Vedra. He is also represented in Charleston, SC by Allison Sprock Fine Art.

Davis’ aesthetic approach blends both realistic and abstract expression influenced by four decades of figure drawing. Likewise, his enduring emphasis on landscape subjects results from years of travel within in the US, Canada, Japan and Western Europe.

Larry Davis discusses his upcoming visit to JWS: “My presentation to the April, 2009 meeting of the Jacksonville Watercolor Society involves a mixed media process that makes use of the same subtractive, aquarelle techniques that are found in most traditional watercolor styles. I hope to broaden the spectrum slightly by utilizing both the bamboo pen and brush as well as watercolor pencils to create a range of works that rely heavily on the gestural approach to image making. By that I mean that the emphasis will be on starting in a very loose and generalized way to capture the subject and then gradually arriving at a more specific finished work. Because, like most good juicy watercolor, there is room for a lot of happy accidents and discoveries based on wet into wet technique, I intend to show how free and expressive one can work and still produce an accurate and provoking final product.”

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear Members,

Did you make it to our Spring Show reception? What a great crowd! David Daniels, our judge, had a very hard time with the quality of work that our members brought in. The show was displayed nicely at Sweet Magnolia’s and the refreshments were delicious. A special thanks to Carolyn Kelso, Dee Roberts, Lisa Cederberg, Verna Urbanski and Debbie Gollhofer. The Florida Times had a great article about us in the Arlington Sun section on Saturday, April 4th. We took up the whole front page and an additional page inside. Thank you Joyce Gabiou for making that happen. I am looking forward to our next demonstration with Larry Davis. Our Nominating Committee has been working hard to find willing persons to represent our board. I am also working on an outreach program at the University Branch Library to begin in September. Please contact me if you can help. May you all have a blessed Easter and look forward to seeing you April 28th.

Sincerely, Terese Muller

Nominations for 2009-2010 Officers

  • President: Terese Marie Muller
  • Vice President Shows/Exhibitions: Carolyn Kelso
  • Vice President Education/Programs: Karen Zelenkov
  • Vice President Membership: Fran Grandy
  • Vice President Communications: Ted Head
  • Vice President Workshops: Joan Dorill
  • Secretary: Verna Urbanski
  • Treasurer: Lois Peacock

The slate of officers will be voted on at our April 28th meeting. Officers will be sworn in at our potluck on May 26th.

SPRING SHOW MARCH 29- APRIL 24

Congratulations to all of the Jacksonville Watercolor Society members who took the time and the energy to enter the  2009 Spring Show at SWEET MAGNOLIA’S GALLERY at  8250 Arlington Expressway in Jacksonville.  If you missed the opening, you missed a very exciting art experience. We had the finest of  artists , David Daniels, as our judge and the most congenial and cooperative hostess, Debbie Gollhofer, owner of Sweet Magnolia’s Gallery. She hung the Show with Dee Roberts who was Co-chair of the event. The show will run through April 24th and, if I do say so myself, it’s worth taking another trip to the gallery - to see it again! Sweet Magnolia’s is open Monday – Friday 10AM to 6 PM, Saturday 10AM to 4PM and closed Sundays.

Congratulations to all who were juried into the show and to the Award Winners on their beautiful entries.

  • GOLD AWARD -- Richard French for “Lilies and Lines”
  •  SILVER AWARD -- Kathleen Maling for “Alligator”       
  • BRONZE AWARD -- Carolyn Hayes Kelso for “Sundown”       
  • PAST PRESIDENT’S AWARD -- Miles Batt 2 for “Backyard Bullying”       
  • PAST PRESIDENT’S AWARD -- Nancy Chenoweth Bain for “Provence”       
  • SWEET MAGNOLIA’S AWARD -- Margaret Pelton for “Red Palm Fruit”       
  • MERIT AWARDS -- Barbara Berlin for “First Snow”;
  • Carol DeHate for “The Dow”; and Ted Head for “Sweeet”       
  • HONORABLE MENTION -- Jeannie Brockhausen for “Resurrection”; Mary Ann Miller for “French Flower Market”; and  Hercel Stallard for “ Historical Springfield”  

Thank you to Verna Urbanski who did a wonderful job with the refreshments, Charles Stratmann who brought the wine, Debbie who provided us with a delightfully congenial bartender which added another touch of elegance. Thanks to Fran Grandy who made all our lists, all our volunteers who did the take-ins, the dropoff- destination people, and to those who, so willingly, filled in the glitches when things went off track, so that no entrant was disappointed. Thanks to Archway Gallery, Great Hangups, Charles Stratmann, and  Amelia SanJon Gallery for being our drop-off depots; to Bruce Hinton who delivered the drop-offs after he closed the gallery; the eight Past Presidents who sponsored the Past President’s Awards; and, last but not least, our co-chairs, Dee Roberts and Lisa Cederberg — Thank you, Ladies, for a memorable, beautiful show!  

Jacksonville Watercolor Society BLOG

JWS now has its own BLOG for current happenings for and about members -- thanks to Terese Muller. http://jacksonvillewatercolorsociety.blogspot.com/

This blog has been created as an extension of the Jacksonville Watercolor Society's website. Its purpose is to keep members informed and entertained about the society's events and our members individual events. To place an event (with pictures, text or both) send your information to Terese Muller at ypsitdo@comcast.net. If you would like to be added as an author to this blog and post your own events contact Terese and she will email your invite. You must be a member of JWS to post your own information.

JWS Workshops: Joan Dorrill will start taking deposits for the George James workshop now.   Call her at 904-471-3439 or send $100.00 deposit to Joan Dorrill, 144 Marshside Dr. , St. Augustine, FL 32080.

More info at the next meeting. Fall 2009—George James, Oct 28-30 Professor of Art Emeritus at California State University Fullerton. He rejected traditional methods and began working on yupo and discovered a unique mode of expression. Strong sense of composition, abstract yet realistic.

Spring 2010, Pat Weaver, March 24,25,26

Fall 2010, Cheng-Khee Chee, October 27,28,29

Spring 2011, Ted Nuttall, March 23,24,25