March 2023: Join Greg Decker as he explores art, culture, history, and music one letter at a time. This video looks at Ottororino Respighi and his beautiful music piece Ancient Airs and Dances as well as a beautiful painting demo and a poetry reading. View the first in his series on YouTube, here. 

March 2023: Callum Francis is an exciting and exceptionally gifted young Australian painter joining the gallery's roster in March. Despite his early love of drawing and painting, Callum only discovered abstraction while attending university in Brisbane. Its effect on him was immediate. He recalls, “I remember sitting in the first lecture on abstract expressionism and just being overwhelmed. The scale, the intensity, and the color resonated with me." For Callum, color is a personal experience, and his choice of color reflects his response to his environment or feelings evoked from his experience. Texture, layering, and the act of painting, itself, also play important roles. Stay tuned for more. His work is arriving soon. 

Feb 2023: GREG DECKER is widely acknowledged as an American master and a painter of rare abilities. A professional painter for decades, Greg was raised in the African country of Congo, an experience that still shows through in his work along with his extensive knowledge of European art, music, and literature. Greg has led classes at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter.  His work epitomizes the passion that comes from a deep love of art, poetry, and music. His paintings show how art is both the consolation for and the voice of a lifetime's experience.” 

—Julyan Davis

News from Artist Linda Mitchell

Atlanta artist Linda Mitchell recently had a residency at Moulin/Belle in Mareuil en Perigord in Southwest France. The residency provides a space for fine and performing artists to slow down and reconnect with themselves, nature, and creativity. Despite the restful atmosphere, Linda produced a body of work that she displayed at a reception for her work at end of her residency attended by friends old and new from the program and the village. "Thanks so much for hosting me and for your wonderful vision for a community of creatives from different disciplines. I will carry it with me always."

Terri Dilling is introducing the cyanotype process in a workshop for the Atlanta Printmakers Studio.

The cyanotype was one of the first photographic printing processes invented, 180 years ago. When light-sensitive paper is exposed to light, a blue-printed stain appears. The process is one that appeals to photographers, painters, and designers.
Dilling explores two techniques: The first technique involves using objects placed on light-sensitive paper, objects such as leaves, feathers, dried flowers, etc. The second process uses transparencies, which function like a photo negative. In her own work, Dilling uses various techniques to create one-of-a-kind "paintings" through her mastery of application and 

exposure to sunlight.  

One of the most outstanding European artists of his generation, Christopher Le Brun has devoted considerable energy to working on paper. We’re excited to offer a dozen pieces from the artist’s studio, which have come to us through our long personal association with the artist. We're presenting them in an online exhibition only, although the works are available for viewing at the gallery. All are framed. This summer Le Brun had an acclaimed solo exhibition in London, and he will exhibit in Los Angeles this fall.

"Le Brun employs a mastery of touch and color alongside a profound understanding of art history and a wide range of visual, musical, and literary sources. He has remained consistent in adhering to what he feels to be the essential poetry and pleasure of painting for its own sake, led by intuition and visual imagination and resistant to external justification."    --Lisson Gallery

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has just acquired three platinum/palladium prints for the museum's permanent collection of photography by photographer Frank Hunter.

The prints are Maple Branch, Sunflowers #52, and Tree Roots. Middleton Place Plantation (shown)