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the biggest events of the art season is the "Best of Scottsdale" Art
Walk. Join us February 26 from 7 - 9 p.m. While in the
gallery, vote for your favorite Xanadu artist. Can't
make it in that night because you're not currently in Scottsdale? Send
an email to elaine@xanadugallery.com.
Put VOTE in the subject line, and then designate your favorite Xanadu
artist. Emails must be received no later than 9:00 p.m. Thursday,
February 26 to be counted. The "Best of
Xanadu" winner will be announced in our next edition
of the "Red Dot" newsletter.
Featured
artists include world-renowned gem carver Helen Serras-Herman, showing
her spectacular adornment art and gem sculptures; Tom Holdman, master
glass artist, showcasing exquisite stained and etched glass;
and Trevor Thomas, our Xanadu exclusive glass
artist, displaying new, exciting, wall-hanging fine
art glass and vessels. Xanadu's Best of Scottsdale will also feature
new desert landscapes and sunsets by oil artist John Horejs.
Many
of the works that will be shown are now on our website.
Preview and reserve your selections today! www.xanadugallery.com/artists. |  |
|  | The Spring season kicks off in earnest this week with the Best of Scottsdale
Artwalk. If you haven't had a chance to make it down to Main Street in a while
(and you know who you are), make plans to come down this Thursday. Fine Art,
Fine Wine and live music up and down Main Street. While in the gallery, vote
for your favorite artwork.
On
another note, I had the opportunity to
spend the weekend in Prescott where I presented a workshop for artists on marketing their work and preparing
to approach galleries. Over the last year, I have presented the
workshop in dozens of cities across the country and have met hundreds
of talented and exciting artists. While
in Prescott, I was able to visit with Dave and Donna Newman.
Dave Newman
has been showing his colorful, nostalgic and energetic collage work
with Xanadu for the last year. Dave and Donna have lived in Prescott
for the last 11-12 years. Eight years ago, they opened a small shop and
gallery on Whiskey Row. The Newman's have an amazing home, where they
have collected artifacts, antiques and landscape paintings from
throughout the country. If you get a chance to visit Prescott, be sure
and stop by the Newman Gallery and say hello.
I look
forward to seeing you soon!
Jason
J.
Jason Horejs
Owner
Xanadu
Gallery
P.S.
I've finally broken down and joined facebook. I have no idea what I'm
doing, but ask me to be your friend and I'll figure it out. I think you
can look me up by my e-mail jason@xanadugallery.com, but you probably
know better than I do. I heard a story on NPR that 175,000,000 people
are on Facebook and I didn't want to be the last one to join. As if I
wasn't busy enough already. |
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Geology X
| Scottsdale,
AZ Collector
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|  |  |  |  | Veronique
Jonas (nee Soriano) was born in Lubumbashi, Zaire, presently
the Republic of Congo. She received her education in Cape Town, South
Africa. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cape
Town.
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recently sat down with Veronique to discuss her work. Below are our
questions and Veronique's answers.
| | Xanadu: What inspires your
vibrant palette of colors? How do you describe your color palette?
When
I look at the world around me, the first thing I see is
color. I am in awe of what I think of as God's gift
to
humanity, his gift of beauty and color. My purpose
as an
artist, is to express that awe and that joy. And
often, in
order to do this, I have to grasp the colors that go beyond
reality. To me, colors have to sing their harmony,
they
have to jump out and express that joy.
X:
How did teaching art affect you personally as an artist?
I taught art to elementary and middle school children for
over 18
years. Now I teach senior citizens. Teaching art
has had a
profound effect on me as an artist. I have been inspired by
the
way children view the world. Their innocence and
their
honesty bring freshness and unparalleled beauty to their
art. I would say that a good teacher is one who
continues
to learn, and everyday, as a teacher and an artist, I learned
from my children and now from my seniors.
X:
Are you trying to communicate any particular messages with your
art? Perhaps with the figurative art?
My paintings are an expression of the beauty and mystery that I sense all around
in this world. I sense the hand of a more powerful being behind the physical
world that surrounds us. The mysterious landscapes of Monterey and the
jubilant sunflower fields of Umbria, though so different from each other, are
one and the same expression of this greater power.
The portraits are
representative of my portrait paintings of peoples of the world. Whether my
subject is from Asia, Africa, or America, they are each an expression of the
potential in each man to create a better world of peace and brotherhood.
X:
You have a diverse range of subject matter; what draws you to paint
what you do?
If I see something that excites me, I am
inspired to
paint it, to capture that excitement! Nature excites me, and
people fascinate me, especially people from different
lands. I have traveled extensively and I am
inspired by
different races and customs.
X:
Do you employ any interesting or unique techniques in your work?
In an art world that is fast becoming exclusively
abstract, the viewer sometimes needs a jolt of reality to face the
world that surrounds him. I feel that my paintings
do fall
under the category of realism, but much more than that, through the
psychology of color, I feel that my paintings speak volumes about my
outlook in life and my fairly constant "joie de vivre".
| | | | Do
you have a question you would like to ask Veronique? Email the
artist at veronique@ketubah-art.com | |  |
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| | Are
you an artist, or do you know an artist who would like to share art
with Xanadu Collectors? Xanadu Studios offers artists and collectors
and exciting new way to connect. Visit Xanadu
Studios for more information. |
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