July 27 through Aug.11, 2012, I’ll have four paintings for sale at the Finnegan’s Farm Reunion Show at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. This is a show for students at the Lyme Academy that stayed at the Weekend house of Patricia O’Shaughnessy and Tom during our schooling. Fremont, Australia Town Square, Oil onContinueContinue reading “Finnegan’s Farm Reunion Show”
Author Archives: Stephan Giannini
New London Plein Air Competition
July 7 and 8th, 2012, I participated in my first outdoor painting competition, this one to coincide with New London, Ct.’s Op-Sail event; an annual tall ship and street festival. I was pleased to win one of the prizes for one of the paintings I submitted for the gallery show. It was sponsored by theContinueContinue reading “New London Plein Air Competition”
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St. Francis De Sales Completed Church Restoration, Paducah, KY.
The summer of 2011 I worked on a church restoration at St. Francis De Sales Catholic church in Paducah, Kentucky. On this project I worked for Tony Kartsonas of Historic Surfaces. Also on the project were Susie Buchholz, Nick Pavlos and Jeff Wolfe. The project was about 5 months long and I was there forContinueContinue reading “St. Francis De Sales Completed Church Restoration, Paducah, KY.”
RedBall Project, Perth, Australia
February 8 through March 5, I am in Perth Australia assisting Kurt Perschke on his RedBall Project, which is simply a 15 ft. diameter Inflatable red ball which we site and install in architectural spaces. This is a project he has been working on for about 10 years and has done for public art programsContinueContinue reading “RedBall Project, Perth, Australia”
Smith College Museum of Art Decorated Restrooms
I visited the Smith College Museum of Art this fall.There were many great paintings and Northhampton, MA. is a terrific town. But the funnest part was their restrooms, which are beautifully decorated by two artists who did residencies at the Kohler plant in Wisconsin, Ellen Driscoll and Sandy Skoglund. Skoglund is responsible for the blackContinueContinue reading “Smith College Museum of Art Decorated Restrooms”
Some Recent Figure Studies
I stayed in Chicago for a month this November and did some studies at The Palette and Chisel Academy:
Some Recent Paintings – 2011
I stayed busy this spring and summer with restoration work, but I did paint a little and here are some of my better sketches:
Old South Church Restoration on Nantucket Island
This past spring I spent 6 weeks working on beautiful Nantucket Island helping restore the Old South Church in Nantucket Island. Today it is the oldest of the large church buildings still standing in the town. Nantucket is about 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and was the setting for the whalers from HermanContinueContinue reading “Old South Church Restoration on Nantucket Island”