James Ratliff Gallery Presents "Using Landscapes As Windows"

SEDONA, Ariz. - Dec. 13, 2015 - PRLog -- James Ratliff Gallery will present a show of landscape paintings by  four different artists each of whom is a master in his/her style and media.  The opening reception is Friday, Jan. 1, 2016.   “Using Landscape Paintings as Windows”  exhibits  the personal selection of James Ratliff from the gallery's collection of landscape paintings, as Ratliff views the potential of landscape art works to  enhance, widen, alter, or bring what's outside inside, thereby creating a personalized interior space for home or office.  The result?  The space comes alive through landscapes that brighten, add interest, provoke thought, engage memories, become yours! That wall whose window reveals a look at the neighbor's wall or an unusable niche are some opportunities to personalize the interior of home or office by hanging a landscape painting over it!    Change your space at will with the landscape of your choice!

Greg Heil  is a young artist who specializes in Arizona landscapes and  travels to the locations he paints to memorialize these areas .  He often sketches and/or takes photos and then returns to his studio to do the actual oil painting which  is interpreted through his  artistic sensibilities.   Heil’s color choices are magical and his paintings can only be called “magic realism” and make wonderful “landscape windows”.

Another way of bringing  landscape into a home in place of a window is through a more abstract painting  as created by Judy Choate.  Choate’s work is also inspired by her travels through various kinds of scenery.   She is very influenced by the skies’ moving clouds and the changes which have happened  to mountains and rock formations through the movement of wind and water .    Vivid colors    brilliant light,  billowing clouds   portend change.

And different yet is the inspired painting of Bruce Marion.  Marion works in series of paintings one of which is titled “Vista”.   Consider this selection from Marion's Vista series,  Shimmering Stillness.     As can be imagined, this painting is quiet in feeling, quite abstract and there’s a sense of almost losing the boundary between water and sky.     An Impressionist,  Marion also paints with texture created through underpainting most canvases.  He uses a palette knife to add even more texture and feeling of depth to his works.

Cary Henrie paints landscapes which often have a wonderful sort of old world charm to them.  Many also have a unique frame painted on the canvas itself which adds to the feeling of peering through a window or aged wall in a European village.   These landscapes are elegant, timeless and Universal is feeling.

James Ratliff Gallery, in its desire to have very happy clients, provides on site consulting services to collaborate with clients.  Ratliff is very willing to accommodate the client by delivering any art work to a Sedona, Flagstaff  or Phoenix area home so any doubt about how it will look can be directly addressed.   James Ratliff Gallery encourages people to take advantage of this opportunity if it would be helpful.  This service  of James Ratliff Gallery and is free of charge, and if the piece isn’t quite the one, it just comes back to the gallery to be sold to someone else.

“Using Landscape Paintings as Windows” will open with a public reception on Friday, January 1, 2016 and run through January 31st.  The address is 671 State Route 179, Suites A1 & A2, Hillside Sedona.   Phone:  928-282-1404, e-mail:  FineArt@jamesratliffgallery.com, web site:  www.jamesratliffgallery.com