Celebrating the Portrait as Fine Art

I'm so pleased to have work showing at Haynes Galleries, in their Thomaston, Maine location. The show includes many artists who's work I admire, respect and drool over. The Celebrating the Portrait as Fine Art  exhibit will be up through July 26, 2014.

Haynes Galleries, Thomaston, Maine

Enlightenment, 24x24, oil on panel, Building a Life Series

Click read more to see details, and an article about the show.

Ode to Melancholy, 24x36, oil

There was a beautiful article in American Art Collector 's May 2014 issue about the show, which has traveled to Maine from Haynes Galleries' Nashville location. I was lucky enough to be at the opening of the Nashville show and it was a wonderful blend of skillful execution and thoughtful contemplation. 

From the article: Strickland's "Ode to Melancholy" is an emotional painting of the artist’s daughter. "In the painting, she becomes a stand-in for our universal and human experience of melancholia. Painting her and her sadness reminded me that to appreciate joy, one must fully experience melancholy," shares Strickland. "There is a sweetness in experiencing life fully and John Keats describes this so eloquently in his poem, that I borrowed his title for the title of my painting of Carly."

You may read more about the show on the Haynes website. If you get a chance to get by the gallery, tell them I said hello from Birmingham!