High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks! extends a huge thank you to Central Oregon Artist and painter, Janice Druian! Janice has contributed four wonderful original paintings with proceeds going to "My Own Two Hands" charity. Not only do we love Janice's work we also truly appreciate her support of one of our favorite Central Oregon non profit groups -- The Americana Project / My Own Two Hands an outreach program of the Sisters Folk Festival.
Plan on attending the Bend Gallery Association First Friday Art Gallery Walk on Friday, December 4, 2009 from 5-9pm and bid on or choose the "buy-it-now" option and walk away with one or more wonderfully custom framed Greeting Cards (really they're original painting 4" x 6") by Janice.
Here's the show information so you can Mark Your Calendar: High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning custom picture framing studio for High Desert Gallery is pleased to announce their first annual Holiday Greeting Card Charity Sale and Auction, The event kicks off at High Desert Gallery in Bend Oregon during the Bend Gallery Association First Friday Art Walk on Friday, December 4, 2009 from 5-9pm. A select group of professional Central Oregon artists have created 4”x 6” and 5” x 7” holiday greeting cards. High Desert Frameworks has custom framed each greeting card and will offer the works of art for a “Buy-It-Now” price or the works can be purchased through a silent auction bidding process. At least thirty percent of the sales goes to a Central Oregon not-for-profit charity of the artist's choice.
One Night Only -- Event Kick Off and Reception: Friday, December 4, 2009 5-9pm. Bend Gallery Association First Friday Art Walk
Kick Off Event location: High Desert Gallery, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at the Oxford Hotel.
Join us for great art, lively conversation, live music by Bellavia and Holiday Cheer -- All for a good cause!
About Janice Druian: Vita brevis est, ars longa. … life is brief; art is long With this famous Latin phrase in mind, my goal is to spend as much time painting as possible. Living in the high desert, I am fortunate to not only be surrounded by traditional beauty--vast skies, distant mountain ranges, and the subtle colors of sage, sand and juniper, but also some tattered beauty--abandoned sheds, rail yards, old ranches, etc. Whether I am working with stunning natural beauty, or abandoned beauty, I think that being a painter is the most rewarding life of all!
Janice Macarthy Druian, lives above the Deschutes River in Central Oregon. From her studio there is an unimpeded view of the Cascade Mountains to the west and the high desert and Ochoco Mountains to the east.
An undergraduate minor in Fine Art (University of California at San Francisco) was followed by a Masters degree in Art Education at the University of Oregon. There she studied with Laverne Krauss, Tom Fawkes and Frank Okada. As a graduate student her work was primarily figurative. Upon moving to Central Oregon, the beauty of the high desert was so compelling that she moved to landscape, and particularly plein air painting.
Learning to be a plein air painter was a lot more difficult than "just going out there and doing it." It has been a humbling journey from being strictly a studio painter to also working in plein air ...dealing with changing light, trying to approximate the values seen in nature, learning to edit and finally dealing with nature itself--the heat, cold, wind and rain. But in the end it is worth it. Janice believes that behind most great landscapes, even detailed ones executed solely in the studio lies a Plein Air painting.
An important part of this journey has been learning from other painters--members of Plein Air Painters of Oregon, and fine teachers like Jean LeGassick, Richard McKinley, Bob Rohm and Morgan Samuel Price. She is also influenced by her art hero, the late Maynard Dixon and current painters, William Wray, Ken Auster, and Jennifer McChristian.
Janice's work is displayed at several galleries in the region. She has also participated in invitational and juried shows in many galleries, colleges and museums.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, Redmond and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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