Upcoming Shows & Appearances:

It has been a whirlwind year and it's hard to believe how fast time is moving! Seems I just returned to my Northeast home from Florida and now it is time to return again and start preparing for my upcoming show, which I am hoping will be my best yet. I restricted my traveling this year to places around the Northeast but did manage a few weeks back in Florida for those awesome summer skies and steeping heat! I traveled quite a bit playing music in several Blues Festivals and let those travels direct me to some new places to paint, such as Ontario, Alexandria Bay, Thousand Islands NY and Upstate NY.

I will continue to spend as much time as possible painting outdoors as I am convinced there is no better way to sharpen your skills as a designer and draftsman than to work from life. I actually hear other Artists talk of their work as if it were tedious, or boring and in almost every case, that is an Artist who works indoors. The answers to nearly everything in painting landscape is outdoors. There is no substitute to painting from life, and there is certainly no better Art Director than Mother Nature. The Artist's studio is a good place to ponder what you did outdoors. I have been and will continue to paint the bulk of my paintings from life. Not to mention that being outside is a heck of a lot more fun.

This past February marked my 12th one man show in Naples Florida with my next show coming up this February. This upcoming show will have some surprises including some non Florida work for the first time in these Florida shows.

Upcoming One Man Show

February 25th 2010
GARDNER COLBY GALLERY
Naples, Florida
239-403-7787