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Exhibition-While We Were Still
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While We Were Still... Flowers Bloomed
Online & In-Person

NOW OPEN

Reception: July 10, 2020 (Dates subject to change)
 
 

In a time when the whole world was asked to stop, it became clear that art and loveliness are especially necessary. This is why a select group of masterful artists have been working to create a special collection of paintings.  This artwork, created in the spirit of vibrancy, vitality, and hope, is our gift to you. 

This subject matter of flowers will uplift your spirits – connecting you with the healing element of nature and the inspiring aspect of beauty.

“In challenging times, there are few things that comfort us like beauty. And there are few things in all of Creation as beautiful as flowers. This exhibition by some of the finest interpreters of nature is not to be missed.” says Tim Newton, Guest Curator and former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the legendary Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, New York. 

 
 

Featured Artists

Select the artist below to be taken directly to their work. 

Kathy Anderson • Redding, CT

Stephanie Birdsall • Redding, CT

Scott Conary • Portland, OR

John Felsing • Mason, MI

Quang Ho • Hellam, PA

Eric Jacobsen • Prineville, OR

Daniel Keys • Fresno, CA

Shanna Kunz • Ogden, UT

Sherrie McGraw • Taos, NM

Paul Rhymer • Point of Rocks, MD

Kathleen Speranza • Lynn, MA

Adrienne Stein • Hellam, PA

Kathryn Mapes Turner • Jackson, WY

 

Guest Curator

Tim Newton, former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the legendary Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, New York

 
 

Experience the Exhibition

The gallery is open Monday-Friday 11am-6pm. The first and last hours are by appointment. To schedule a private viewing, please call us at 307-734-4444 or email info@turnerfineart.com.  

If you are not located in Jackson Hole, please explore the artists' work below. If you would like a personal consultation, please call or email us.

 
 

This masterful collection is painted in the spirit of vibrancy, vitality, and beauty as an offering to a global community that is experiencing a global pandemic. The artists believe that now more than ever, art is needed and valued.  They believe that this subject matter of flowers will uplift spirits because this artwork connects the viewer with the healing element of nature and the inspiring aspect of beauty.

“In challenging times, there are few things that comfort us like beauty. And there are few things in all of Creation as beautiful as flowers. This exhibition by some of the finest interpreters of nature is not to be missed.” says Tim Newton, Guest Curator and former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the legendary Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, New York. 

 

Featured Artists

Kathy Anderson • Redding, CT

Stephanie Birdsall • Redding, CT

Scott Conary • Portland, OR

John Felsing • Mason, MI

Quang Ho • Hellam, PA

Eric Jacobsen • Prineville, OR

Daniel Keys • Fresno, CA

Shanna Kunz • Ogden, UT

Sherrie McGraw • Taos, NM

Paul Rhymer • Point of Rocks, MD

Kathleen Speranza • Lynn, MA

Adrienne Stein • Hellam, PA

Kathryn Mapes Turner • Jackson, WY

 

Guest Curator

Tim Newton, former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the legendary Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, New York

 

Experience the Exhibition

The gallery is open Monday-Friday 11-6pm. To schedule a private viewing, please call us at 307-734-4444 or email info@turnerfineart.com. Please note that the gallery will be cleaned after each visit and the number of persons will be limited according to state and local recommendations. 

If you are not located in Jackson Hole, please explore the artists' work below. If you would like a personal consultation, please call or email us.

Kathy Anderson

I was very shy as a child and immersed myself in nature and with animals, spending a lot of time at my Grandmother’s house in what was then the country out East on Long Island, NY. From this, and my mother’s beautiful gardens that she tended with love, my lifelong passion for these subjects has evolved. Combining birds and flowers for this special show depicting a rebirth of the earth was a joy for me.

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The Poppy Garden | 30 x 24 inches | oil | Kathy Anderson | $6,000

Pansies with Chickadee | 12 × 20 inches | Oil on Russian Birch Panel | Kathy Anderson | $3,200

Tulips and Warbler | 10 × 20 inches | Oil on Russian Birch Panel | Kathy Anderson | SOLD

Rose Petals and Chickadee | 8 × 12 inches | Oil on Russian Birch Panel | Kathy Anderson | SOLD

Warbler with Roses and Quince | 15 × 16 inches | Oil on Russian Birch Panel | Kathy Anderson | $3,000

Stephanie Birdsall

“There has never really been anything I wanted to do, other than paint. I never travel without my supplies. There is so much beauty around us and I don’t want to miss an opportunity to capture a beautiful moment, be it a desert landscape or a glorious flower garden or simply light with its unique ability to transform whatever I am looking at. Painting is about seeing, each in our own individual way.”

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Lilac Spring | 10 x 20 inches | oil | Stephanie Birdsall | $3,000

Now and Forever | 14 × 11 inches | Oil on panel | Stephanie Birdsall | SOLD

The Earth Laughs in Flowers | 12 × 9 inches | Oil on canvas, mounted on panel | Stephanie Birdsall | SOLD

Scott Conary

I approach painting as a sculptural process as much as a consideration of light, color, mark, and so on. It’s a repeated gathering, building up, and tearing down of material. I use a brush, painting knife, old credit card, brayer, splash of solvent, my hand. Most anything. Whatever it takes to uncover and build that tenuous sense of weight, presence, and mystery that I’m looking for. This approach, as it strips down the subject and knits the painting together, can make it feel real in a way that a more deliberative, tidy, and accurate rendering may not.

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Golden Tulips | 11 × 12 inches | Oil on Panel | Scott Conary | SOLD

Narcissus Four | 9 × 6 inches | Oil on Panel | Scott Conary | SOLD

John Felsing

I never really look for a painting; I simply keep the channels open as I walk the fields near home. A painting is as much about calling tree frogs and a distant train, the fragrance of dying leaves, as it is about what is visible. I am not interested in reproducing what is visible, but in attempting to make things visible. Not until I visit a place repeatedly, do I feel enough intimacy to attempt a painting; only then does one realize that art grows out of love.

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Cathedral | 14 3/8 x 9 inches | graphite, oil & beeswax on paper mounted on board | John Felsing |SOLD

Quang Ho

The real essence of painting is the dialogue between shapes, tones, colors, textures, edges, and line. Everything else follows—including light, form, concepts, personal beliefs, and inspirations.

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Azaleas and Spring Cuttings | 20 × 20 inches | Oil on Linen | Quang Ho | SOLD

Spring Cuttings | 11 × 12 inches | Oil on Linen | Quang Ho | SOLD

Eric Jacobsen

My love of flowers started early on. It was nurtured by my mother’s keen eye and love for all things petalled. One of the things she liked to do was pick wildflowers on our walks and arrange them in a vase once she got home. She still does this and thanks to her, so do I. She keeps a bevy of unique smallish vases on her kitchen window sill and in her cupboard for the purpose of displaying her found treasures. Her vases are employed and full from February’s first offering….blossoming snowdrops from the base of a granite hillside nearby ‘till the seasons last gift of purple aster in October. My mom has maintained an extensive flower “picking” garden over the years which she cultivates and cares for with the help of my dad, also a flower lover. From it, she creates beautiful arrangements all summer long and well into the fall. Her bouquets include everything from peonies to zinnias and gladiolus to sunflowers, whatever happens, to be in bloom. Her arrangements are visually stimulating and bring warmth to the home. Simply put, I love flowers because my mom taught me to love flowers. Flowers remind me of my mom.

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Peonies | 18 x 24 | oil on board | Eric Jacobsen | $2,500

Lemons and Lilacs| 24 x 30 | oil on board | Eric Jacobsen | SOLD

Sunflowers and Apples | 16 × 24 inches | Oil on Board | Eric Jacobsen | SOLD

Daniel Keys

One of the things that I love in travel, going into mountains and national parks, is the little tiny flowers in fields. It is amazing to me the resilience of these tiny little, you know, organic matter. They have no regard for the time, they just grow, they have always existed and will continue to do so as far as we know. Whether anyone sees them or not, they just bloom.

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June Pansies | 8 × 10 inches | Oil on Linen | Daniel J. Keys | SOLD

Narcissus & Pansies | 8 × 16 inches | Oil on Linen | Daniel J. Keys | SOLD

Backlit Hollyhocks | 8.75 x 4 inches | oil on linen | Shanna Kunz | $1,200

Spring Pansies | 8 x 12 | oil on linen | Shanna Kunz | $1,200

 

Shanna Kunz

“I’m not interested in detailed realistic painting. Art is emotional for me. It isn’t about reality or making something look like a picture. It’s about the feelings behind the imagery.”

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Daffodils and Forsythia | 9 x 4 | oil on linen | Shanna Kunz | SOLD

Rhapsody in White | 12 x 12 | oil on linen | Shanna Kunz | SOLD

Sherrie McGraw

Abstract Realism applies to painting in oil, first and foremost. The painting is “real” because you can recognize an object, but it is “abstract” because the color, paint quality, value, edges, and composition are used in very abstract ways to affect the viewer visually and carry the eye through the painting. The concept comes first and is the result of conscious editing by the artist. Plain and simple, nothing goes in unless it furthers that idea. And a detail never goes in just because it is there.

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Roses in a Dutch Glass | 17 x 20 inches | oil on canvas | Sherrie McGraw | $21,000

Homage to Fantin-Latour | 15 x 13.5 | oil | Sherrie McGraw | $15,500

Chinese Vase with Roses | 12 x 16 | oil | Sherrie McGraw | SOLD

Paul Rhymer

When I decided to start painting again, last year, I picked up where I left off over 20 years ago. I hadn’t painted seriously since then. When I was painting back in the early days it was very illustrative, that’s why I feel like my painting style has a scientific illustration/sketchbook/studies feel to it. I like the watercolor…my grandmother, a member of the American Watercolor Association, sent me the paints I used in these works when I was living in Swaziland. I have supplemented these with Winsor Newton and whatever I can find.

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Dog | 11 x 14 | watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,700

Potomac Blue | 11 x 14 | watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,700

Spring Opener | 11 x 14 | watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,700

Dog | 11 x 14 | watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,700

Potomac Blue | 11 x 14 | watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,700

Spring Opener | 11 x 14 | watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,700

Red Rainbow | 14 x 11 | watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,700

Thinking of Columbine | 8 × 8 inches | Watercolor | Paul Rhymer | SOLD

Wyoming | 8 × 10 inches | Watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,100

Red Rainbow | 14 x 11 | watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,700

Thinking of Columbine | 8 × 8 inches | Watercolor | Paul Rhymer | SOLD

Wyoming | 8 × 10 inches | Watercolor | Paul Rhymer | $1,100

Kathleen Speranza

Since my flower paintings feel more like portraits than still lives I suddenly had a wealth subjects ready to pose. During the long weeks of lock down a few positive things were happening. The human world had suddenly slowed down enough for the natural world to take center stage. The unusual quiet and stillness allowed us the opportunity for a deeper meditation on our vital connection to nature. In some ways it felt like many other people were entering the silent and reverent world that painters inhabit all the time. It was a strange but very welcome development. I hope that these paintings will help the viewer connect for a while to that deeply satisfying and important state of mind.

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Narcissus and Daffodils | 14.5 × 10.5 inches | Oil on Panel | Kathleen Speranza | $6,000

Roses for Wyoming | 14 x 11 inches | oil on panel | Kathleen Speranza | SOLD

Single Daffodil | 12 × 9 inches | Oil on Panel | Kathleen Speranza | $5,000

Adrienne Stein

My work reanimates historical painting genres forming a bridge to the present with fresh insight and imagery. The worlds I paint are inhabited by figures, folklore, archetypes, and natural elements that are fueled by a sense of personal as well as universal myth. Subjects are reinterpreted in lush and magical environments that form the nexus between reality and fantasy, expressed through an unconscious world of symbolic imagery. 

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May Symphony I | 36 × 24 inches | Oil on Canvas | Adrienne Stein | $8,500

April Symphony I | 36 × 24 inches | Oil on Canvas | Adrienne Stein | $8,500

Kathryn Mapes Turner

My need to create flows from the privilege of participating in the miraculous nature of the creative process rather than rendering some notion of a perfect product. The creative process is a confluence of nature’s inspiration and my personal interpretation of what I am experiencing. I strive to create paintings that record my own experience of the subject's essential spirit and energy, not an imitation of a fixed surface reality. 

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Sage Bouquet | 10 × 8 inches | Oil on Canvas | Kathryn M. Turner | SOLD

To Ascend into Blossom | 8 × 6 inches | Oil on Linen | Kathryn M. Turner | SOLD

Together | 16 × 16 inches | Oil on Linen | Kathryn M. Turner | SOLD

Ever Wonderful | 11 × 11 inches | Oil on Board | Kathryn M. Turner | SOLD

News and Press

June 3, 2020
June 3, 2020

TURNER FINE ART PLANS BLOOMING EXHIBITION
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As the snow recedes off south-facing buttes and low-lying flats, Indian potatoes and sagebrush buttercups are starting to bloom. While the human residents of Jackson Hole are isolated and distressed, the ecological processes of spring are proceeding as normal, unaware of our plight. It is this sentiment that, in part, gave rise to Turner Fine Art’s coming exhibition, “While We Were Still … Flowers Bloomed.”
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