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by Natalie Guess

hat purpose does artwork serve, besides just adding artist composed and hoped to share their sincere emotion with those
an accent of color, in an otherwise drab environment that may recognize it. Through the years, that’s what lives on in art.
W that we live in? As I sit here in this gallery This is why we NEED art!
surrounded by a variety of artwork, I feel happy and content. I scan Come in and find your new, inspiring painting to take home
from painting to painting and see various styles and interpretations and excite your life!
of water scenes and landscapes that are familiar to me. It’s Starting out the new year, we are featuring a show titled "Beach
interesting how each artist, with their own style, picks up on Breezes” that opens January 3 and focuses on favorite views of
details that create a composition that coaxes the viewer forward for the beach painted by artists: Phil Fisher, Natalie Guess, Jan Ellen
a closer look and portrays an idyllic world, yet a moment in time Atkielski, Greg Biolchini, Kevin Barton, Larissa Flynn and
that brings forth comfort. I’m offered to escape into the painting, Morgan Samuel Price.
that takes me away from any awareness of negative, to a place January 18 and 19, Jan Ellen is instructing a workshop:
where I can feel the joy and warmth of the scene I’m experiencing Expressive Palette Knife in Oil. Space is limited.
in the way that the artist was feeling at the time of creating it. Guess-Fisher Gallery, 985 Central Avenue, in the heart of the
Journeying into this visual exercise inspires in me, beyond the Naples Design District in downtown Naples. 239-659-2787.
commonplace and routine, into a creative passion, one that the We are open Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m.

Guess-Fisher Gallery, 985 Central Ave. 239-403-8393 www.PhilFisherFineArt.com www.Guess-FisherGallery.com

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