I just returned from yet another wonderful visit down south .  It was pretty nippy this year. My first stop was in Virginia for a photo shoot of a client's dog. There was more snow on the ground than where we live in Maine!  We even had a couple of inches of snow in Charleston.  It was entertaining seeing so many people snapping photos of the snow with their cameras. 

I was fortunate to have the time to take in a few of the sights and went on a plantation tour and visited the aquarium.  What a disappointment the otters were sound asleep during my visit. I'll try again next year.

 

I was so fortunate to meet so many interesting and kind people at my reception.  The new Dog & Horse Fine Art Gallery on 106 Church Street in Charleston is so attractive.  Jaynie Milligan-Spector and her staff did a lovely job hanging the show.  It was fun to be a guest in more beautifully decorated historic southern homes and plantations.  The people are so friendly and the food is too good.  So back to the gym tomorrow.

I came home to warm temperatures, by the State of Maine standards, with very little snow on the ground.  I may have to start training my new four year old horse in order to make him tired.  He's thinking up more ways to get in trouble this winter.  Between him and the load of commission work I've accumulated, I ought to remain busy through the summer months. 
 

Beresford Gallery Announces
6th annual Sporting Life...Art Show and Sale at the Aiken Center for the Arts (Downtown Aiken, S.C.), February 18-20, 2010

In partnership with the Aiken Center for the Arts & the Beresford Gallery of Saratoga  Springs, N.Y. and Unionville, Pa.  Featuring all media of sporting art, including: oils, watercolors, drawing, sculptures and photography by international, nationally and locally recognized artists.

I will have two paintings in this exhibit.

My painting, Get Well Soon, made it on The Chronicle of the Horse cover for the Jan. 29, 2010 edition!

We had 23" of snow the past few days.  Here's a photo looking at the river from our upstairs window

Sleigh Ride
18x24 oil on masonite
available

 

BETH CARLSON

“Fall Flush”

Fifth Anniversary

Sporting Exhibition

February 11^th – March 13^th, 2009

Artist’s Reception: Thursday, February 11^th, 5:00 – 8:00 PM

 

At our NEW location

DOG & HORSE

Fine Art and Portraiture

102 Church Street, Charleston, SC 29401

(two doors down at Elliott Street)

www.dogartdealer.com

Monday-Friday 10:00-5:00 PM, Saturday 10 -5:00 PM

Press Contact: Jaynie Spector Phone: 843-577-5500

 

                   Dog & Horse Fine Art is thrilled to announce Beth Carlson’s fifth anniversary exhibition of her coveted sporting paintings. The excitement of the flush, the beauty of the hunting dogs, the prize at the end of the day; Beth Carlson's paintings have soul and capture the excitement of the hunt for both the hunter and dog.  Her landscapes are as always breathtaking with the natural beauty of the countryside. Sportsmen, collectors, men and women alike are in line to purchase and commission her paintings.

          Beth Carlson has five paintings in museums; two paintings in the permanent collection at the Brittany Hall of Fame in The Field Trial Museum in Tennessee and three paintings have been bequeathed to the prestigious Museum of the Dog in St. Louis, Missouri.   

Carlson’s sporting paintings have gained such notoriety to have graced the covers of numerous publications including Gray’s Sporting Journal, The American Brittany, The Field Trial Magazine, The Pointing Dog Journal, and The Chronicle of the Horse.   She is also a member of the nationally recognized organizations, Oil Painters Society of America and Women Artists of the West.  

 Currently, the artist lives on a farm on the coast of Maine with her husband, Peter, and her dogs and horses.   Dog & Horse, Fine Art & Portraiture, is a specialized source for paintings by top quality artists, specializing in dog and/or equine paintings, sculptures and portraiture. 

Moonlight Romance, 11x14 oil on masonite


Gray cantering, 6x6 oil on masonite

 We went away for a few days over Christmas and I got to go dog sledding. Lots of fun! 

I have been invited to exhibit my work along with a few other Maine artists in an Invitational Equine Art Show at the Northeast Horseman's Conference and Trade Show Invitational Art Show (can you say that quickly five times ?) , January 16th and 17th, 2010 in Augusta, Maine.  I'm hoping to get a few small paintings done for that show.  I'm presently dabbling with "tonalism" for my show in Charleston this winter and hope to get one or two painted for this show.  "Tonalism" lends itself to increased luminosity in paintings, which I adore.  So come take a look in January!

Below is a photo I took about a month or two ago of the horses heading out of the barn in the morning.  The first thing they do is go to the apple trees to eat what apples have fallen overnight.  Gracy, the dark bay, is always particularly eager to beat the others in getting there as witnessed in the following photo. 



Gracy has been boarding here for close to ten years and will be leaving soon to a  new barn her owner had built on her property for Gracy and her friend, Periwinkle, the gray pony on the left. We're going to miss Gracy!  She's been a (bossy) part of the family for a very long time.
These two photos might be incentive for a painting for the show in Augusta!

 

Here is one of the artists that participated in the workshop this past week.  We were painting trees at a wonderful apple tree farm.  I lived on their homemade apple cider doughnuts and hot spiced cider all week.  It was cold standing outside painting last week.


I had to drive through the longest covered bridge in Vermont on the way to paint at Stickney Falls.


Part of the falls.  A very typical sight in Vermont, babbling brooks and falls along the country roads.  Just gorgeous countryside.



Fog lifting in the mountains directly behind the Village Arts Center in Putney, Vt., where I painted all week.

Now back to work in the studio hopefully incorporating everything I learned on my Christmas commission work.