CAA's Art on Demand | Art Gallery Tours

art on demand is a production of the cultural arts alliance of walton county brought to you with support from alice beach 30a.com and florida department of state division of cultural affairs while these events are provided at no cost to you we do ask that you donate what you can by visiting our website culturalartsallians.com in order to help the caa continue to foster creativity employ artists and bring you entertainment education and engagement through art on demand we hope you love this virtual event hello and welcome to art on demand i'm rebecca kemp staff member at the cultural arts alliance and today we'll be focusing on some of the art galleries of walton county we're so blessed in this county to have many talented artists and many galleries but today we'll be highlighting three we're going to start with the foster gallery at grand boulevard town center founded in 2016 it's an artist collective by the cultural arts alliance the foster gallery was named for one of the cultural arts alliance's founders the late susan foster and she was an artist and she had a gallery in greyton beach and so it's a great way for us to honor the beginnings of the cultural arts alliance while also fostering artists fostering creativity and making sure that artists have a professional setting in which to sell and exhibit their work and also get experience working in a gallery the first artist we'll be seeing today will be melody bogle a resident of south walton let's go melody bogo finds inspiration from the beautiful area in which she lives the emerald coast she works mostly in oils and pastels and likes to work with the form as it moves with the light as a member artist of the cultural arts alliance melody often teaches classes at the bayou arts center and she was featured as the 2016 south walton artist of the year andrea chipser is one of our very talented multi-medium artists here her work is featured in resin our next artist is betsy latham her medium is oil and her works feature birds landscapes and abstracts kathy schumacher is our next artist originally from wisconsin she uses oil as her medium and uses the palette knife in order to create a dynamic final product our next artist sandra horn enjoys painting with classical realism and after using many different mediums she enjoys using oil as her main medium up next is william paulie his main medium is acrylic and he has a really interesting career trajectory first he was an artist and then he was a pilot for fedex and then he went back to being an artist moving on to jenna varney our south walton 2019 artist of the year she paints with photo realism and her medium is acrylic linda kurnick uses mixed medium to make vibrant energetic and unexpected pieces of art [Music] next up iva jazieri she's originally from the czech republic but has been a local since 2011. her medium is glass and resin and as you can see she's inspired by the beach and geodes featured next is jason lindblad he's an illustrator whose medium is pen and ink his works are very delicate and detailed and they will draw you in with their beauty donell clark has been an artist for over 35 years and she's one of our member artists at the cultural arts alliance of walton county she is a multimedia abstract artist who enjoys creating texture with gesso and collage mary redman is a swedish born artist who finds inspiration for her abstract waterscapes and marble creations through her travels gail campbell is a florida native she was featured in emerald coast magazine as one of seven emerald coast artists you need to know you're encouraged to try on her wearable art kim efrid sees the world in shape and mass he's one of our featured 3d artists at the foster gallery thank you so much for visiting us at the foster gallery all of our pieces are for purchase online at our website culturalartsalliance.com or you can call the gallery at 850-837-3037 if you have any questions and now we are at the fusion art glass gallery in grand boulevard town center i'm joined by sonali who has worked here for three years tell us a little bit about the gallery so fusion is a small business locally owned and operated by russ gilbert who's also one of our artists we've been in seaside for the past 25 years almost and now in grand boulevard for about 11. we represent about 150 different artists located all throughout the country including high-end jewelry designers some 15 local artists including doug fultz who's this year's visit south walton's artist of the year would you mind giving us a tour absolutely so we can start with some of russ's pieces he's very well known for flame working and he does gorgeous work with wildflowers sea oats some of the pieces you'll see here are russes including the sea oats which is one of our main center pieces we also represent many regional artists including orbix hot glass they're out of fort payne alabama some artists from california new england really coast to coast whether you're looking for jewelry a gift glass art you're going to find it at fusion your pieces are so beautiful can you give us some information and background on them absolutely i'd like to talk a little bit about one of our southern studios orbix hot glass out of fort payne alabama cal bridge is their main gaffer at that gallery and he creates beautiful pieces like this water bowl which can be decorative but also functional one of his assistants mark lupita makes really great functional as well mortars and pestles in addition to the kitchenware that you'll find here like our stemware we also have gorgeous lamps by a few different studios kinsig design is probably one of our most popular lamp designers they're based both on the east coast and west coast it's really neat collaboration between the artists so we really appreciate having their work in the gallery as well well here at the fusion art glass gallery we don't just have glass as our medium we also have this beautiful oil painting by doug fultz who just so happens to be a member of our board at the cultural arts alliance and is the 2020 artist of the year for south walton yeah that's right doug is really a phenomenal painter known for his regional landscapes mostly and his work is typified by these gorgeous big skies that really play off the light almost transporting you to that place where you see just amazing atmospheric conditions you can feel the warmth the temperature so it's wonderful to have doug's work in our gallery in addition to some paintings we also carry ceramic work and all of our ceramics are also locally made please tell us about the beautiful jewelry you have on display we represent quite a number of jewelry designers at all different price points dana and david are some of our really top higher-end jewelers who use 18 karat and 14 karat gold brilliant cut diamonds i'm wearing one of their gorgeous shadow cuffs today they're based out of new york and it's a team where you can really see where the artists take their background and architecture and graphic design and translated into these really beautiful pieces and of course you're also wearing one of their stellar necklaces as well so it's great when you come into fusion there's so much to see that between the jewelry and the glass art i mean you're always going to find something to buy yeah well sonnelli thank you so much for giving us a private tour of fusion art glass gallery my pleasure thank you if you can't make it to our grand boulevard location you can always find us at seaside or shop with us online and keep in touch via social media we really appreciate you coming out today and thank you for supporting our thriving artist community here in south walton and now we have an extra special behind the scenes look with artist justin gaffrey thank you so much for having us today absolutely glad you're here thank you we're here in your studio and you're going to do a live demonstration for us i am i'm going to paint a seascape painting great i'm going to ask you some questions off-camera so i'll let you get to it all right sounds good so yeah i was a chef for most of my life my mainly through my 20s and i just got kind of burned out on the restaurant business and started building furniture and one day i realized i wanted to paint on a piece of furniture and when i did that painting i realized i liked painting more than making furniture so i did a painting on just like a regular painting on a piece of wood and i haven't stopped since literally i'm still painting you have such a unique interesting style with so much texture can you give us a little bit of background about how you describe your style and what type of paint you use sure so when i taught myself how to paint um and i didn't really know how to use any of the materials so i kind of used them the way they made sense to me so i started painting actually with latex caulk and house paint and i would move it around with painting knives and i would get a knife in the mail like this i was like well i don't know how to use it so then when i used it i didn't i don't think i used it in a traditional way that you used it i used what made sense to me and i think through that of kind of not being trained and just self-taught i kind of developed my own style of painting through using materials that way that made sense to me cool do you use a specific type of paint i use a heavy body acrylic paint it's just a highly textured acrylic it's just super thick it it it when i make a peak like this like i'll show you when i actually start painting when i make peaks they hold their peaks but it's heavy body texture it's almost sculptural and i heard that you're making your own paint now i absolutely do i've always wanted to make my own paint i started it a long time ago and kind of gave it up because i was so busy and it was so labor intensive and then just a couple of years ago i started making my own paint and literally my paint machines are 10 feet away from here maybe 15. we'll have to have more information on that maybe in a later video because it really is amazing what you're doing in your studio not just the painting but also the creating of your own paint well i can see you're putting a lot of paint on the canvas how much paint do you normally use on this size painting i will probably use three to five gallons depending on you know like this painting right here has a flat bottom but obviously this painting here i'm gonna do it fully textured yeah four gallons it was when when i was teaching myself how to paint i would conserve paint because paint's expensive when i started not using latex caulk and using the house paint i was using real click real acrylic paints it's so expensive but and you say you're really careful about how much you put on there however the day that i realized i didn't care how much it cost i just had more fun and the painting just changed because i was just really loose with it and it just that kind of helped me develop my style as well by just being extremely liberal and painting whenever i want however much i wanted some of the paintings i have painted have had several hundred pounds of paint on them what's several hundred pounds of paint how long does it take to dry uh several months up to a year depending on how thick it is and those are like more sculptural paintings you know where i build up a lot of paint like i would never like obviously putting several hundred pounds of paint on this but i've probably put on this size canvas probably i've probably put about seven or eight gallons on this size before which is what is um about 65 pounds or so we're so lucky to live in a beautiful area and i see a lot of your paintings are landscapes where do you draw your inspiration from so i know the area pretty well like when i first moved out on 38 i remember walking all the dune lakes just walked the circumference of all the lakes and everything kind of starts to have repetitious style to it the way the trees are and the way they hit they you know lead into the water with the grasses and everything so i kind of for the most part make them all up out of my head now just based on all the scenes that i've seen over the years however i do like to go to different places still like uh last month we were up on the oscillator or down on the ocelo river which is south of tallahassee near the big bend and i was exploring that area and i love it it's so beautiful and so i do like explore new places but i've been pretty much everywhere around here you know so it's all in my head now as i'm sure viewers can see from the studio your style is a little messy um do you have a closet full of clothes that are covered in paint uh i do i have my closet actually is covered in paint because i my my studio used to be at the gallery which is my how i live on top so my closet is covered in paint right now but i mostly get clean before i go home now which is very nice but i have very few things that don't have paint on them so this studio is not your gallery you have a gallery on 38 where is that located i have a gallery in blue mountain beach right on 30a and this is really close i i just have to go to one stop sign about a half a mile from my house and head north and i'm in my studio so i like that so in your gallery on blue mountain road down on 38 do you ever commission private works for people i know you have a large selection of work for sale and on display in the gallery but can people commission a private piece uh but of course yeah people a lot of times people want sometimes they want a totally unique thing but a lot of times it's like oh i like that painting but i just need it bigger or smaller and that's most common what happens but then sometimes people want something like completely new so unique that you have them in the piping like that is this something that you normally use when you're painting you use the piping bags i do i i use them i use them a lot you can see my big pile of my my nearly spent ones but i don't like to throw them away it's it's just a very convenient way to get especially like when i started the painting i had a lot of paint on there it's not convenient to do it that way but when i'm doing smaller things especially as i get down into more of the the foreground i use the piping bag a lot it's just very convenient way to distribute the paint this is actually one of my favorite colors indian yellow is really one of my one of my favorite yellows this is really nice golden hue to it and so this right here i'm doing this sun is like one of the most iconic things that people love in the in the paintings that i do they like this nice swirling sun wow the texture is unbelievable it's just beautiful well we don't want to keep you we'll let you get back to your painting and we'll head on out to take a look at your gallery sounds good hey guys come on in welcome to the justin gaffrey gallery all right let's go let's check out the gallery so when you come into the main room ordinarily what we'll have displayed in this room is some of the more uh traditional coastal pieces that justin works in um you'll see the iconic sun like on this piece here with the iconic tree line that he likes to paint sometimes he'll get a little crazy and throw the road in there and put the sign on it like the 30a sign there more times than not though this is more of a typical coastal piece that justin will do just the gulf of mexico again those iconic trees he's gone through a cloud phase now where he's painting clouds instead of suns and moons i think he's running out of things in the sky to paint so i don't know what's going to be next here's another nice one with the 30a this is a big wave this one was displayed i believe at the pearl restaurant for a while um justin loves to paint waves he's a surfer he likes to surf every now and then and he's just really inspired by the gulf of mexico and all the pretty water so a lot of times you'll see these colors show up throughout his paintings that are very indicative of the gulf and that's just because that's where he draws so much of his inspiration from but let's go back this way and check this out let's go check out the new studio or the old studio my new office this is um where justin started out and when you come back here you can see all the paint on the walls that are left behind from the years of just build up basically from him slinging pain everywhere this is a cool little area over here the sink that's where justin stood for so many years just piling paint up off of his hip while he was washing his brushes out in the sink over here when we put this wood floor down in here um we jackhammered we used an actual jackhammer to get this floor pulled up so that people could still see this little island here of how many layers of paint just dry over time from the way the acrylics mound on top of each other and every other thing that gets dropped inside of them just makes a big mess we had this all along the walls in here and the ceiling we got it all off so we could put this floor down this room is going to be the uh it's actually really exciting this room is going to be our art supply company this is where we're going to have our little kiosk for that this is where you're going to be able to come in and actually buy justin's paints and purchase all of the tools that justin uses in his art studio and you'll be able to basically kind of recreate your own little justin studio at home with all of the same things he has and then you can do your own textured pieces of art wherever that may lead you this room this is the floral room justin is very popular for his floral works i would say his big yellow sunflowers are probably one of the things that really put him on the map as far as a local artist because people really fell in love with these big yellow flowers and these are actually all of the flowers on this wall are actually kind of a throwback to his early days people kept requesting flowers like he used to do so he just decided one day to do a whole bunch of flowers like he used to do and that's what we got out of him are these beautiful sunflowers and these beautiful blue bonnets and then over here on this wall you'll notice that some of these pieces have steel integrated into the piece um justin loves wood justin loves steel justin loves paint so it makes perfect sense that all three things would be integrated into his style and these pieces were kind of fun because they were different than most of all of the other pieces that he's done in the past as far as the integration of the wood the steel and the flowers all together it's kind of rustic and pretty all at the same time i call them guy flowers all right so the last room i wanted to show you guys is back here at the very back this is where we house a lot of our nests you could call this the nest room or the nest nest justin likes to make nests they're really fun to make in the studio because we'll use just about anything we can get our hands on this is where he's peeled up the uh plastic floor where all the paint gets thrown on the floor and then dries up he'll just peel up the floor and then use that kind of as a substrate for these nests it's just a way to turn something that was ugly into something beautiful which is one of his talents um these eggs are made of all paint so the the eggs are solid acrylic paint which is pretty cool and they don't hatch which is also pretty cool welcome to the backyard justin has a beautiful backyard again that's a bit of integrated steel into the paint this this piece was fun because he actually decided unlike the other pieces where he would put the steel on and then paint around it or put the paint on and then put the steel in this time he wanted to do it simultaneously at the same time so we had to figure out a way to weld steel and pour paint at the same time and not catch it on fire or melt it too much because the steel would get really hot and then the paint would want to melt or like melt you know seize tooth the metal so it was a lot of fun putting this thing together and not dying through the process so thanks for stopping by the justin gaffrey gallery everybody feel free to bring all of your friends and family by for a visit we're located at 2-1 blue gulf drive right here off of scenic 30a our hours are 10 a.m to 6 p.m monday through saturday and everyone's welcome just come on in and check out some art thank you for experiencing this episode of art on demand presented by the cultural arts alliance of walton county with support from alicebeach30a.com and florida department of state division of cultural affairs we hope you explored your creativity and learned something new today as the creative core of walton county the cultural arts alliance walton county offers support connection and access opportunities for all forms of art every variety of maker all levels of learners and especially art lovers through performance funding and educational programs the 501c3 organization directly connects the people of walton county with the broader view the critical exploration and the answers only the arts have the power to provide if you loved this episode please visit culturalartsalliance.com and click the donate button to give what you can to help the caa continue to bring you art on demand and stay tuned for our next virtual event coming soon [Music]

Channel: Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County

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Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: Art, Arts, Art Gallery, Gallery Tour, Virtual Gallery Tour, Art Gallery Tour, 30A, South Walton, Walton County, Florida, Florida Arts, Cultural Arts Alliance, Paint, Painting, Glass Art, Glass Works

Id: lKNZFZa5U44

Length: 24min 49sec (1489 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 05 2020