Our latest color-filled art show opens Thursday, August 30, 2018. It features the lively work of two stellar women artists. Rena Vanderwater is a legendary post-modern artist that is well known to Southwest art collectors.  Kat Thompson Paul spent years as the Art Director at Nordstroms in Seattle and now brings her vividly detailed paintings to the Gallery in a show that continues through September.

OPENING RECEPTION

Thursday, August 30, 2018

164 E State Street, Eagle Idaho

5:00pm – 8:00pm 

RENA VANDEWATER

My passion is color. The result is many oil/acrylic paintings I’ve created over the last 45 years. Most have been sold through galleries in Arizona,California and Idaho or through my web page – RenaVandewater.com. I’m included in many public and private collections across the United States and a few in Europe. I get my ideas from life: traveling, living on a farm and mainly from a vivid imagination. After my children were grown, I went back to school and earned a Masters of Fine Art degree. The educational process put me in touch with postmodernism and more importantly, the science of Quantum Mechanics. Quantum theory suggest a mysterious and positive way of looking at the world. In my most recent work, I use the oil/acrylic color medium to create a fresh and colorful painting to help to visualize this new world view. I like to think of Grant Wood and his happy contribution to the world during the depression years. It is my current belief that there is so much war, fear and uncertainty in our lives, I have no desire to add to it with bleak or didactic paintings. My work is harmonious and uplifting while having a strong presence of atmosphere and intensity.

K THOMPSON PAUL

I long to paint beauty and happiness; I find it in things rural and simple. The more I search, the more I find: vibrant colors, smiling eyes, thick swishy paint, animals that make me laugh—like perambulating bugs and hairy horse noses. Light is a miracle. Stars a wonder. Without art, I would not see these things. I am painting to find my new normal. I am experimenting with less detail to see if I can paint dangerously and more joyfully.

Here’s a how Kat describes her process for constructing a painting.

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