Tualatin resident and fine artist Anna Lancaster was accepted into the 2010 Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts - Arts & Crafts Fair, The 2010 Gresham Art Committee Juried Show & The Gresham Art Committee's "All That Jazz" - Music and the Artist.
At the 2010 Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts - Arts & Crafts Fair, Anna will be exhibiting a variety of her contemporary oils and mixed media as well as a variety of her fine art note cards.
The 2010 Gresham Art Committee Juried Show will be exhibiting Pocono Mountain Floral Gathering & Magnolia Choir. These two pieces were created using Anna's newest technique of contemporary pallet knife.
The Gresham Art Committee's "All That Jazz" - Music and the Artist will be exhibiting Anna's newest work O Se' BaBa. This painting is part of a series of contemporary works that are an amalgamation of Anna's contemporary & classical training, created with both pallet knife and brush.
Anna is honored to show her art at the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts - Arts & Crafts Fair and the two Gresham Art Committee's Exhibitions.
As a Tualatin resident, Anna has enjoyed the City of Tualatin's committment to promote the Arts. She has exhibited and demonstrated painting at Tualatin Art Splash since 2003 and is looking forward to being accepted in Artsplash 2010.
Anna was also a Tualatin Open Studio Artist for both 2008 and 2009.
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, The Gresham Art Committee along with Anna Lancaster invites you to come and enjoy every wonderful work of art that will be displayed.
NW Artists Who Teach Exhibition
In January and February of 2009 Anna Lancaster participated in the NW Artists Who Teach Exhibition at George Fox University in the Minthorne Gallery located at 414 N. Meridian Street, Newberg, Oregon 97132.
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| Mix It Up (left) Anna Lancaster (center) and Iris Whispering Secrets (right) |
Mirror Mirror Salon Fundraiser
In December of 2008, Mirror Mirror Salon located at the Tualatin Commons Commercial Space held a Christmas Open House benefiting families in need with children whom attended Byrom Elementary School.
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| Owner of Mirror Mirror Salon, Robin Melham |
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| Pieces of Display by Anna Lancaster |
2008 Tualatin Studio Tour
Anna Lancaster was located at Wine Styles at the Tualatin Nyberg Mall in November and December 2008.
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| Anna Lancaster at the Tualatin Studio Tour |
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| Work on display by Anna Lancaster |
Onda Oswego Gallery Group Show
In September 2008, the Onda Oswego Gallery located at 240 A Street, Suite 104, Lake Oswego, Oregon held a group show which displayed pieces by Anna Lancaster.
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| Anna Lancaster with Artist, Jean Marie Chapman (left) |
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| Amy Erikson, Artist and Curator of Onda Oswego Gallery |
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| (left) Artist Maurico Atedivino and artist friends. (center) Anna Lancaster with her piece, Iris Whispering Secrets (right) Niestro Canto-Geraldo Calderon and Nieda Reyes performing live. |
Onda Gallery Opening
In May of 2008, the Onda Gallery, located at 2215 NE Alberta Street, Portland, Oregon, opened with a two person show featuring Sculptor, Carol Murphy and Artist, Anna Lancaster.
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| Pieces on display by Anna Lancaster |
Award 'Best of Show' - October 2007
Anna Lancaster received the 1st runner up for Best of Show at the 2007 North Clackamas Arts Guild Art Exhibition and Sale. The award was given to Anna's oil on linen painting Children are a Blessed Heritage. This work was completed in 2007 and depicts families gathering for health care of their children at the Christus Specialists Hospital in Ibadan Nigeria. Anna's husband, Glenn, took photographs on a medical mission's trip with the Oregon based ministry Compassionate Hands International. Anna has plans for more works from these photographs.
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| Children Are a Blessed Heritage - Best of Show |
Award 'Most Promising Pastel Artist' - July 2007
Anna Lancaster received an award for Most Promising Pastel Artist at the 2007 Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. The award was issued by Art Media Supply Stores which issued Most Promising Artist Awards in the categories of Oil and Acrylic, Watercolor and Pastel. The award was given for the mixed media Sunset Shawl completed in 2007 by Mrs. Lancaster. It is a 30x24 mixed media piece combining watercolor, soft pastel and acrylic fixative. This particular work is from Anna's Decorative Contemporary series Wet, Dry, Warm Cool Fusion.
Anna Lancaster has been featured in Plein Air Magazine
Plein Air Magazine, November 2005 Vol. 2, No. 11
B Eric Rhoads, Chairman/Publisher
www.pleinairmagazine.com
The Caswell Gallery’s submitted photograph was taken of Anna Lancaster plein air painting at the Women's Forum Observatory overlooking Crown Point and the Vista House. It was taken by Bud Fields, an artist and the President of the North West Oil Painters Guild. The curators of the Caswell Gallery chose this photo for the Plein Air Magazine submission and future “Paint the Gorge” publicity because of the nice composition of the Columbia River Gorge landscape with an artist at work. It was picked from 90+ photos taken by Bud Fields of the 47 artist participants in the competition. For Anna Lancaster, this was truly a right place at the right time special gift from God. It happened just when the artist was thinking to herself, “What am I doing? What’s my name? Why am I doing this? Can I stand another moment of artist specific rejection?" Her response was, "Thank-you, God, for this hug from heaven.”
Canby Rodeo Court Receives Portraits
This year, at the end of the celebration an added special gift was provided for the 2005 Ambassador Queen Kirsten De Groen and 2006 Ambassador Queen Terri Rush by the Clackamas County Fair Ground Rodeo Committee. Anna Lancaster, professional portrait and equine artist, donated oil on linen portraits of the lovely Kirsten and Terri along with their majestic horses, Big and Stinger. The duos were painted during their 2005 reign.
Anna and Susan Rudberg have been kicking around the idea of Anna becoming the official Rodeo Court Painter. “Now that the cat’s out of the bag, it would be nice to proceed with the commissions in a more formal portraiture process where I would have the opportunity to do some live sittings with the Queen and Princess in order to produce portraits that the girls and their families would be able to cherish for generations,” states Anna.
Portraiture Workshop with Wanda Kemper
Jean Marie Koch, the ambassador for the Portland Chapter of the Portrait Society of America, scheduled professional portrait artist Wanda Kemper for a portraiture workshop. The workshop featured 2 live models, Rochelle Greenwell and Susan Fern, and was held at the art studio/gallery of the Oregon Society of Artists in SW Portland on Oct. 8th and 9th.
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| All photos taken by professional photographer and portrait artist, Fred K. Hahn. He is kneeling down in the far bottom left of the group photo. (bottom) Anna Lancaster working on a portrait at the workshop. |
Ms. Kemper is a former resident of Lake Oswego and now resides in California. You can visit her website at www.portraitartist.com/kemper
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| Wanda Kemper, Portrait Artist |
Oregon Chapter of Portrait Artists holds First Meeting
Following lunch, the group took turns showing paintings and portfolios and sharing personal stories about how they became interested in painting portraits. Many had the common history of drawing faces as children and dreaming of being an artist. Several spoke of the happiness and excitement of becoming a portrait artist following many years of working at other jobs. While some artists had been fulfilling their dream since childhood, some had started painting portraits as little as nine months ago.
The last part of the afternoon was spent in discussion of what the group wanted to do in the future. Everyone agreed they would meet at least twice a year and have various workshops, portrait demonstrations and programs with special speakers. They also wanted presentations on a variety of subjects including art reproductions, marketing, websites, life-drawing with draping, finding commissions and promoting portraiture in Oregon. One idea that was greeted with great enthusiasm was to organize and hold a portrait art show. The show would feature the works of the Oregon artists and would help to promote portraiture and figurative painting in the northwest. The group will be sharing information on future art festivals and shows as well and marketing and promotional techniques. All agreed that they we excited by the friendships and synergy being created by the organization of the group.
When asked to share their dreams and goals, some spoke of the becoming masters at their art and the desire to support themselves as highly successful artists. Others said they simply wished to continue to create beauty and enjoy their lives as artists. All of the artists expressed a deep love and appreciation for the gift of creating portraits. Two of the artists will be attending the conference in DC.
The next meeting of the Oregon Chapter is planned for October, at a place yet to be determined.
(top right) Cut Line for photo of Oregon Chapter of Portrait Artists (from top left): Trish Walsh, Fred Haun, Anna Lancaster, Cathleen Rehfeld, Jan Maitland, Clarke Berryman, David James, Stephen Koch, Ron Boyd. (seated from left): Jean-Marie Koch, Natalie Harris, Lynne Patton, Diane Russell, Naomi Deitz.
(middle and bottom right) Anna Lancaster speaking at the Oregon Chapter of Portrait Artists Meeting