Waiting for Summer, by Sandy O'Connor. Watercolor. 23.25 x 30.5" in frame. Minimum bid $900.

Editor’s Note: Sandy O’Connor is one of the featured artists in the National Marine Life Center’s upcoming Art for the Seas event. The following biography is from her website, www.redhillsudio.com. ~kaz

“‘My best work is always inspired by what I have seen and experienced personally. I filter those experiences and try to capture the emotional connection that stirs my own senses when seeing something for the first time. I am constantly drawn to strong natural light and deep shadows no matter what the subject matter especially during dramatic, transitional moments of the day and seasons of the year.’

“Sandy O’Connor grew up on a small farm in northern New Jersey where changing seasons inspired a life-long passion to draw. She won her first art competition in second grade with a painting of a sunrise. Her love of the natural environment led instinctively to a degree in Landscape Architecture from Rutgers University. It is this combination of a naturalist’s eye, the discipline of a formal design education and years of professional practice as a graphic artist that shapes O’Connor’s style as a representational fine artist.

“With a meticulous attention to detail, the realism present in each one of her watercolor paintings has become the trademark for this award-winning artist. O’Connor was also selected by American Artist’s Watercolor magazine as one of 10 finalists in their 2007 and 2008 cover competitions. In 2009, she was juried as an Associate Artist member of the prestigious Copley Society of Art in Boston where she recently won a ‘Juror’s Choice’ award for her painting Pearl of Cotuit. The recipient of multiple awards from the Cape Cod Art Association, her painting titled The Wonder Years, which garnered a ‘Peoples Choice Award’ from the Association, appears in the North Light Books publication, Splash 11: New Directions, available May 2010. The same painting won the Ferdinand R. Petrie Memorial Prize in the prestigious Hudson Valley Art Association’s 78th Exhibition. This led to a formal invitation to join the Association. Her painting, Back to the Sea, will be featured in Splash 12: Celebrating Artistic Vision, available in May 2011. Her painting, Sitting Pretty, was recently chosen for the front cover of Medicine & Health Rhode Island, Publication of the Rhode Island Medical Society, August 2010.

“A resident of Cotuit, Massachusetts, O’Connor is a co-founder of the non-profit Art of the Cure for Juvenile Diabetes, an active volunteer at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit and a juried artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association where she garnered first place and the ‘People’s Choice Award’ in the 2009 All New England Exhibition for her work titled High and Dry. This same piece was accepted into the Transparent Watercolor Society’s 34th Annual National Exhibition last spring and has also been accepted for inclusion into the New England Watercolor Society’s 12th Biennial North American Open Show, which will take place at the North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, MA, from Sept. 24 – Oct 24, 2010.

“O’Connor trades under the banner of Red Hill Studio, named after her mother’s family home in Dunoon, Scotland. Her work is now part of several private collections in the United States, Germany and Great Britain.”

Rising Tide, by Kate Walls. Acrylic. 11x31". Minimum bid $200.

Editor’s Note: Kate Walls is one of the featured artists in the National Marine Life Center’s upcoming Art for the Seas event. The following biography is from her website, www.katewalls.com. ~kaz

“Kate Walls is a Cape Cod artist whose work reflects the beauty of her native surroundings. Her landscapes, floral and wildlife scenes are done in several mediums in a painterly realistic style.

“Kate is a juried artist member at the Cape Cod Art Association, Cape Cod Cultural Center, Yarmouth Art Guild and Cape Cod Waterworks. Her work is available in several galleries and through her studio. Commissions are accepted for all artwork.”

Time to set sail!

The Falmouth Young Professionals are sponsoring a sunset cruise to raise funds for the National Marine Life Center.  Eat, drink, and be merry aboard the beautiful Island Queen as you take a leisurely cruise around Falmouth harbor and Vineyard Sound.  There’ll be food, music, raffle prizes, and a cash bar.  Most of all, you’ll enjoy meeting other young professionals (and the young at heart) while helping a good cause!

Date: Thursday, 16 September 2010
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: Island Queen Dock, 75 Falmouth Heights Road, Falmouth, MA
Cost: $15

Click here to purchase tickets on-line.

Many thanks to the Island Queen, the Falmouth Young Professionals, and the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce for organizing this event!

There are many opportunities for your business to participate by donating food or raffle prizes.  By donating, your business will be recognized by a diverse group of local professionals.  Click here for sponsorship information.

The Falmouth Young Professionals‘ Mission is to help support and promote young professionals to live & work on Cape Cod. They accomplish this by creating a platform for their members to build relationships, develop professionally, and become civic and philanthropically active to enrich our community.

View from the Boardwalk, by Audrey Forge. Giclee print of original oil painting. Framed value $250.

Audrey Forge is local artist and long-time supporter of the National Marine Life Center.  When she heard about NMLC’s Art for the Seas, she quickly signed up to help organize the event.  To promote the auction, she donated a giclee print on view in NMLC’s Marine Animal Discovery Center.  Tickets to win the print are available in the Discovery Center and at the event, $2 each or 3 for $5.  The winner will be drawn at the Art for the Seas on September 26.  You need not be present to win.

From Audrey’s Artist Statement:  “My objective is to provide my viewer with a lyrical or poetic viewpoint of the visual world that will stimulate his own capacity to see not only Nature’s splendor, but also beauty in the ordinary.”  Audrey definitely achieves that objective in her painting “View from the Boardwalk” that evokes not only the view of a salt marsh but the indescribably wonderful feeling of a salt marsh.

Thank you, Audrey!

Tacking the Bend, by Ken Carson. Oil. 10 x 16". Minimum bid $125.

“Ken Carson received his BA Degree from Marietta College in 1972. He taught art in the Bourne school system for 35 years. During this time,1985-1998, he was the Assistant Director and the Director of the Market Barn Gallery located in Falmouth MA. Ken has studied with John Bruce, Beverly Edwards, Sig Purwin and Claude Croney. His paintings are included in private collections throughout the United States, as well as England, Spain, and Italy. His work is in the permanent collection of the Duxbury Art Complex, Falmouth Hospital, and the Cape Cod Hospital. Author Peter Koenig included Ken in his 1987 book, “Falmouth, A Visual Legacy-A Timeless Spirit”. Ken was also featured in the Cape Cod Life Summer 1990 issue. He is a member of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, the Falmouth Artist Guild, the Cataumet Arts Center and has shown in many regional juried shows. His recent shows have included Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, Gallery 333, and Cape Gallery Framer, Falmouth.

Fall Marsh, by Ken Carson. Oil on Panel. 11 x 9". Minimum bid $150.

“‘In my landscapes I try to show a sense of peaceful solitude. They are not about people or things, rather quiet space and time.  ~Ken Carson’”

Click here for details about Art for the Seas, and to purchase tickets.

By the Hour, by Kathryn Kleekamp. Oil on canvas. 12" square. Minimum bid $400.

“Before moving to Cape Cod, I enjoyed a 30-year career as a clinical microbiologist. I rather imagine all those years of looking through a microscope have given me the ability to paint the fine details most people seem to enjoy in my work.

“I’m primarily a realistic painter. My goal is to capture an image or moment in time and have the viewer experience his or her own special memories of that place.

Tethered Rainbow, by Kathryn Kleekamp. Oil on canvas. 12" square. Minimum bid $400.

“I’m self-guided, with no formal art training. However, I strongly believe my passion for painting and living in such a beautiful area has inspired my creativity.

“My original art and art prints may be purchased through this website or “My Sister’s Gallery,” 20 Jarves Street, Sandwich.

“Prints are also sold at the following Locations:
“Cape Cod Visitor Center (Eastham)
“Dan’l Webster Inn and Spa (Sandwich)
“Painted Daisies (East Sandwich)
“Snow’s Home and Garden(Orleans)
“Market Street Bookshop (Mashpee Commons)
“Deborah Ann’s Rainbow (Dennis Port)
“Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum (Provincetown)
“Nantucket Whaling Museum
“Kennedy Gallery, Vineyard Haven

“If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me. Thank you, Kathy [Kleekamp]”

Click here for details about Art for the Seas, and to purchase tickets.

Moonrise, Ft. Hill, by Robert K. Roark. Oil on canvas. 14 x 18". Minimum bid $750.

“Mr. Roark, a native of Mississippi, received his formal training at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design, and the Cape Cod School of Art under such noted artists as William Draper, Daniel Greene, and Henry Hensche. He has been the recipient of a Ford Foundation Scholarship and the Kunyoshi Memorial Scholarship. He has won numerous awards with pastels at such recognized shows as the National Pastel Show, including Best of Show, First Place (twice), and the Bee Paper Award. His miniature oil paintings, 5″ x 7″ and smaller, have won Mr. Roark as many as five national awards in a year, including First Place and Best of Show in the Montana Miniature Society Show. His larger oils have also won numerous awards, including the Best in Show Award in the Leo Diehl Exhibition.

“His nudes and portraits have received wide national and international recognition and have won many awards. Both the National Arts Club and Salmagundi Club have recognized his work with first place awards. Mr. Roark has also shown in the “Wet Art” and “Silent Art” exhibition at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts for several years. In 1996 he was asked to jury the Copley Society’s annual Group Show and in 1998 was invited to participate in a major event to raise funds for Boston’s Battered Women Clinic held at the Copley Society.

The Bay at Sunset, by Robert K. Roark. Oil on Panel. 12 x 14". Minimum bid $500.

“Mr. Roark has exhibited in New York City at the National Arts Club, the Wickersham Gallery, the Fox Gallery, the Flynn Gallery and the Salmagundi Club. He has also been shown in Taos, New Mexico; Columbus, Ohio; Vero Beach and Sarasota, Florida; and in Washington D.C. at the Smithsonian, in Naples, Florida at the Naples Museum of Art. His work can also be found in Hirschhorn’s permanent private collection, the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA and in 2009 his work will also be included in the permanent collection of the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA. Mr. Roark’s art work can also be found in many private and corporate collections worldwide.

“In 2001, Mr. Roark was the featured artist for the celebrated “Pops by the Sea” event held each year in Hyannis with the renowned Boston Pops orchestra to raise funds for the Cape Cod Arts Foundation. From November, 2001, to February, 2002, the Cape Cod Museum of Art held a retrospective exhibition of Mr. Roark’s work highlighting his artistic mastery. Mr. Roark has also been invited to take part in several exhibitions at The Cahoon Museum over the past several years. In 2006 Mr. Roark was accepted as a member of the prestigious International Guild of Realism and his work has been part of the both their 2006 and 2007 juried exhibitions.

“While in New York, Mr. Roark worked as a portrait painter and an illustrator for such periodicals as the “New York Times”. He has also done mural work for the Hotel Pierre and for the Pierre Cardin Resorts in Palm Springs, CA. Mr. Roark was the subject of recent articles in “Cape Cod Life” magazine and has been the featured artist for the “Cape Cod Times”, “Cape Cod Antiques and Arts Magazine”, “Cape Art Review” and “American Art Collector”.

“In 1987 Mr. Roark had his first one-man show at Tree’s Place, Orleans, MA and continued to hold one-man shows there until he and his wife Anita Winstanley-Roark, a photographer and art historian, open their own gallery, The Studio Gallery Robert K. Roark, Dennis, MA, in 1995.

“Mr. Roark’s paintings have been described as “a mastery of reflected light.” His landscapes and still lifes “invite tactile exploration” and his interior scenes have elicited references to Vermeer, “while still modern and completely Mr. Roark’s own, in style and subject.” Describing his work, Mr. Roark has said that he paints in “a simple and straightforward manner, choosing to define the landscape and other subjects in terms of light as opposed to color.” His approach transports the viewer into a beautiful world of varied subjects and entices one to linger and explore radiant textures and evocative light. Through his numerous subjects Mr. Roark has laid claim to an exquisite corner of the present Age of Enlightenment by creating mirror images of the passion which resides within him. Mr. Roark has recently reproduced several of these beautiful images in a limited edition format, capturing the essence of his original paintings and of timeless Cape Cod.”

Click here for details about Art for the Seas, and to purchase tickets.

Toni the Turtle, by Arnold Desmarais. Minimum bid $800.

Cape Cod painter Arnold Desmarais loves the sea.  His well-known seascapes reflect the beauty and diversity of the coast.

A strong believer in giving back to the community, Mr. Desmarais was the first artist to donate work to the National Marine Life Center’s “Art for the Seas” event.  Wanting to contribute something special to this first annual art auction to help stranded marine animals on Cape Cod, Mr. Desmarais painted a piece entitled “Toni the Turtle” just for the occasion.

Art lovers and turtle aficionados alike are invited to bid on this one-of-a-kind painting.  The work will be auctioned at Art for the Seas on September 26.  Minimum bid $800.  For event tickets and information, click here.

Register now for the 4th annual Douglas J. Fletcher Golf Tournament!  Once again all proceeds will benefit the National Marine Life Center in Buzzards Bay (a cause near and dear to Doug).

Date: Thursday, September 23
Time: 8 am shotgun start
Place: Brookside Club, 11 Brigadoon Road, Bourne
Cost: $125
Registration: Click here to register on-line.

Your tournament registration of only $125.00 includes our famous 19th Hole Festivities at the Brookside Club, prizes, raffles, a live auction and a cash bar! Thanks to the generous support of Nielsen Business Media and Convention Data Services, Inc., we will once again be hosting our four night trip raffle – only this year YOU get to pick the location of the trip at any Hilton Hotel worldwide!

With YOUR support, Convention Data Services has raised $45,000 since 2007 to help fund NMLC’s marine animal rehabilitation program and the construction of our new hospital. Sponsorships are an important part of this success, so please consider one of the many sponsorship opportunities that help support this worthwhile event. Click here for a sponsorship form or e-mail golf@cdsreg.com for additional information.

Click here to confirm your spot in what is sure to be another fun-filled day of golf, food and laughs to support the NMLC! If this link doesn’t work, copy and paste this URL into your browser to register: https://www.xpressreg.net/golf/start.asp. Even if you can’t play, please consider a general donation to help support the National Marine Life Center.

Don’t forget to check out our website for updates and photos from past tournaments at www.xpressreg.net/golf.

Be sure to invite friends, family and colleagues! We look forward to seeing you on September 23rd!

Fore!

This Sunday, August 8th, eat breakfast at Moonakis Café in East Falmouth and save stranded turtles, seals, and dolphins!

A portion of Moonakis Café proceeds will be donated to the National Marine Life Center, to help us open our new marine wildlife hospital in time for the fall stranding season. NMLC staff and volunteers will be available with displays and information about our rehabilitation, science, and education programs. With your donation of $25 or more, you will receive a free copy of Paul Rifkin’s “Back to the Wild” DVD featuring a sea turtle release on Cape Cod.

Date: Sunday, 8 August 2010
Time: 7 am – noon
Place: Moonakis Café, 460 Waquoit Highway, East Falmouth, MA‎

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