Excited to receive "We're pleased that you will be our first featured photographer..." for the Friends of Loxahatchee Refuge "Instagram Takeover". It starts July 1! I couldn't be more grateful to share the splendor and wonder of one of my favorite places. Stay tuned. @loxahatcheefriends
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The rest of the story...   On March 11 received invite letter to national juried art exhibition at Tubac Center of the Arts. How could I not enter "Milky Way Over the Keys" into the "Starry Starry Night" call. Will be showing in AZ next month, about 40 miles from Tucsan. 30x30 inches on metal ready to hang. Check-out exhibit and my piece.
 From all the possibilities, honored to have "Whiteout" selected as the gift given to the 300 plus volunteers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park for National Volunteers Week 2021. It was printed on lens cloth to use on glasses and camera lenses. Sized 6.5 x 6.5 inches. Along with the cloth they received my interpretative statement:
Sometimes the weather forecasts get it right. It said that starting at Noon on Friday a front would roll into the Great Smoky Mountains area. They predicted a 100 percent chance of rain for the next 36+ hours. Like clockwork, the rain came. It started pouring just as I arrived at the top of Grotto Falls! The rain continued for several days. With this being the last weekend of my Artist Residency at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, I decided to brave the constant rain and return that Sunday to a place I had visited often for sunrise and sunset. The camera, the tripod, and I all wore rain gear. For an hour I watched and waited, as "smoke" slowly drifted lower and lower across the valley at Morton's Overlook, to capture this decisive moment of clouds, mist and fog over the Smokies. Phoenix, GRSM Artist-In-Resident October/November 2019   It's an honor ever time I'm asked to show original works photographed at this historic home and Fort Lauderdale treasure, Bonnet House Museum and Gardens. On July 5, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places." The former winter home of artist Frederic Clay and Evelyn Bartlett.
Pictured above: Top - "Bonnet House Brazilian Spider Monkey". Bottom - "Path to Bonnet House". Evelyn Bartlett had a pet monkey and bought 30 to 40 monkeys to live in the trees of the estate. When a local bar, LeClub, that featured monkeys closed they fled to the Bonnet House. Perhaps three survive there today. If interested, visit or contact Bonnet House directly: 900 N Birch Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, 954-563-5393 or feel free to contact me and I'll do it for you and make the arrangement to pick up.  Honored to be selected for Pinecrest Gardens' online store, http://shop.pinecrestgardens.org/.../photographs-by-phoenix. Pictured is "Pretty in Pink," 16x24 inches on metal, one of the pieces in the collection.
For those of you who are local or perhaps visited as a tourist, today's Pinecrest Gardens is a botanical garden located in what was the original location of the Parrot Jungle, a theme park started in 1936 until they relocated to the city of Miami's Watson Island in 2003. So many happy memories here.  First weekend in May started with wonderful coverage in The Mountain Press. Thanks Juli Neil and TMP for running article on story behind the "Disappearing Hemlock" photograph taken during my Artist in Residence at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Biggest TY goes to GSMNP forester Jesse Webster for working so hard to save these trees and the eco-systems they support.
So honored that one of my images inspired a reporter to research this conservation story.  Give the gift of simmering nature. All new Acrylic Prints for your loved one and even yourself. Only one available of each design. Each is 6 x 6 inches and signed by Phoenix. Click here to learn more and how to order.
Call me a National Parks geek. I've loved our national treasures since the first time I camped over night at Everglades National Park as a Girl Scout... a few years back. My love affair with national parks has continued. To date I've been privileged to visit 22 national parks, seven national refuges, one national preserve, seven national monuments and three US military parks. I am humbled with the rich beauty and American history preserved by our National Park System.
Through my photography I am inspired to expand the visual story that artists--painters and photographers-- started more than a hundred years ago that helped inspire the creation of our national parks to excite new generations of people, build awareness and foster stewardship of these beautiful public lands and historic sites to ensure their continued preservation. See more in the National Parks Collection Pictured above: Yosemite Daybreak, Whiteout-Great Smokey Mountains NP and Reflections-Everglades NP. All are available 12 x 12 inches on metal or ask about custom sizes. I love showing at this Fort Lauderdale treasure. "Purple Lotus" and "Purple Lip Orchid" are showing at the Bonnet House Museum and Gardens' Welcome Center. This sacred lotus is the national flower of India symbolizing life, ever-renewing youth, eternity, purity and divinity. The "Purple Lip Orchid" is so delicate, fragrant and simply lovely. Both are 8"x10" on metal ready to hang or put on a table easel.
If interested, visit or contact Bonnet House directly: 900 N Birch Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, 954-563-5393 or feel free to contact me and I'll do it for your and make the arrangement to pick up. |
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