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June 6, 2008
Autumn Mist, my pastel painting, won First Prize in Painting at Art
in the Barn; a juried regional show in the Museum Barn at Hillside
Farms, Shavertown, PA. I am pleased to be accepted into the show and
delighted to win! The exhibit contains some very fine "barn-inspired"
art, much of it on paper, so if you love quality watercolors this would
be the place for you...only through June 15...and the show contains
drawings, oils, etchings and sculpture, too....and it all stinks! Yes,
there are cows nearby...it's a real farm!
May 1, 2008
I am the Art Chair for the Auction of Locally-Made Art to benefit
Habitat for Humanity of Susquehanna County on May 10th. Over
thirty artists from ours and surrounding counties are represented by
their paintings, woodworking, ceramics...we even have a woodcut and
two quilts. Tickets are $25, which includes dinner. Art preview &
cash bar begins at 5:30pm at The Summit Tea Room, routes 11 & 706
in New Milford. Call 570-278-4102 to reserve your tickets. I've seen
the art and we're going to have some very special pieces at prices for
all budgets. Come out for this evening...help put a local family in
their own home..help keep artists working in Susquehanna County.
April 9, 2008
I've been chosen to participate in the Wayne
Plein Air Festival May 14 through 17...that's Wayne, PA. It's a
lovely area outside of Philadelphia and I look forward to doing some
spring blooms and stately architecture.
February 28, 2007
In a fit of nostalgia, while anticipating yet another Pennsylvania snow/ice
event, I've put the Arizona paintings
in their own gallery...go soak up some sun...not an icicle to be
had.
February 20, 2008
Thirteen Recent Landscapes & Wishful
Thinking paintings are hung at The Buttenut Gallery. The Opening
is Saturday, Feb 23; 2-5pm, 42 Maple Street, Montrose, 570-278-4011.
The show will hang until April 19, Thu, Fri & Sat 11-5. The whole
story is at http://rodricatilley.blogspot.com/
including the part about the ER!
February 2, 2008
New, updated improved print page.
Make your gift selection here and use paypal if you wish! It can be
sent right to your sweetheart.
January 28, 2008
I have updated the recently sold gallery
and exhibitions and events page for 2008.
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December 26, 2007
I'm posting paintings as they are made on my blog.
Check it out and let me know what you think. I'd especially like to
know how to gain a little more graceful control over photo placement
on the blog!!!
December 4, 2007
We enjoyed having many visitors and shoppers over the recent two weekends,
but we still have plenty to choose from in paintings, prints and claywork.
Our prices range from $8 to $1400 with plenty of good choices in the
low ranges.
I'm looking ahead to 2008. I've finally joined the blogosphere.
I'm replacing Painting of the Month with rodricatilley.blogspot.com.
It is a place to show new paintings and talk about them and the process
of making them. I welcome your comments.
November 16, 2007
Ten new autumn paintings! Three here
and seven here...top of the galleries.
Come see what's new during my Two Winter Weekends Art Exhibit: Nov.
23, 24, 25 & 30. Dec.1 & 2. (Fridays 4-7, Saturdays & Sundays
11-5.) Clay work by Zoë Poster, too! We'll have some holiday cheer
to share with you and yours. P E A C E
October 9, 2007
The Artists' Open House Weekend,
was again a great success. Many new and returning visitors to the studio...three
days of unseasonably warm, but beautiful weather...a lot of fun and
ART! My Monday demos went reasonably well; watercolor bouquetin the
morning and an outdoor pastel in the afternoon. It is a joy for me to
have an interested audience asking questions and engaging with me and
the process. Such a fun weekend...and 18 paintings off to new homes.
This will free up some wall space for me to fill over the next few months.
Thanks to all who came.
September
30, 2007
Around the Barn opens today in Tunkhannock at EMCA. 2-5pm.
Fall foliage here is predicted to be at it's peak next weekend...just
on schedule for the 11th Annual Artists'
Open House Weekend; Studio Tours in Susquehanna County. Hope to
see you at my studio...Ken Ely will be here rebuilding another section
of wall along the driveway!
 September
25, 2007
Eight new paintings here and here.
September 7, 2007
I've posted some new paintings on the plein
air gallery. Some are from a new series I've been working on this
summer; Fig Street.
August 17, 2007
During October, some of my barn paintings will be hanging in the same
exhibit with those of other artists, most notably, Wolf Kahn, (ahem!)at
The Endless Mountains Council of the Arts building on Rte 6 just west
of Tunkhannock...302 West Tioga Street...570-836-EMCA. "Wolf Kahn
is widely considered the premier landscape painter in America today.
His chromatic renderings of barns, fields and trees are unmistakable.
He works mainly in oil and pastel." The exhibit is called Around
the Barn and is in Tunkhannock from October 5 through 28.
July 31, 2007
This Friday and Saturday (August 3rd & 4th-9amto 4pm) is big doin's
in my hometown, Montrose, PA. It's Blueberry
Festival!!! This is the annual fundraiser that the community puts
on to benefit the Susquehanna County Free Library Association &
Historical Society: quilt raffle, pancake breakfast (8-10:30am), lunch,
snacks, bake sale, blueberry everything, silent auction, huge book sale,
band concert, kids' games, and more. This is small town America at it's
best. Stop by my studio on you way to or from the town square. The studio
will be open 10-4 both days and I will be donating 5% of all sales to
the Library & Historical Society; prints, paintings, cards, bud
vases.
July 17, 2007
I have posted 5 brand new pastels in the plein
air gallery...all gardens.
July 10, 2007
A big thank you to everyone who came to the studio last week; browsers
and purchasers alike. Fifteen paintings found new homes and all but
six of the foxes took their boxes off to new dens.Thirteen plein air
painters enjoyed spending time at their easels in the garden, so you'll
be seeing their work soon in a show near you, perhaps.
If you would like to visit the studio just call (570-278-2479) or email
(rtilley@rodricatilley.com) for an appointment. New garden paintings
will be framed soon and I will have some of Zoë Poster's bud vases,
slabs and sly foxes.
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25, 2007
Zoë Poster and I are busily preparing for our annual summer
art exhibit here at the studio; "Hot & Cold".
I will be showing winter landscapes; some from the Arizona project
mentioned below and some of Susquehanna County. She will be showing
clay foxes in boxes, slabs and bud vases.
Join us for a fun time at the reception this Friday night from
6-8 (yikes, get out the broom and dust cloths) or any day from
June 30 through July 8 from 10-6.
June 10, 2007
New Painting of the month for June.
Five new watercolors
and a new plein air which
is on the home page, too. Zoë Poster and I are busily preparing
for the exhibit June 29 through
July 8.
May 9, 2007
I am the featured painter this month at International
Plein Air Painters!
April 29, 2007
Thirty days-Thirty paintings! As you know March weather in southern
Arizona is *much* better than here. I spent every day outdoors
painting! I'm back in my NE Pennsylvania studio now editing and
making slight changes to my field work.
All the paintings are from Pima, Santa Cruz and Cochise Counties.
I was based near Sonoita and anyone who is familiar with the grasslands
in that area knows their beauty, even in winter. The new paintings
include the locations of Empire Ranch (the original Red River
was filmed there), San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area,
the emergence of spring cottonwood foliage, lots of blue skies,
vast cloud formations, mountains in several ranges, a few cows...and
very few cacti.
 When
you're painting out in public there's often someone stopping by
to see what you're doing...at least these three didn't tell me
what I "forgot to put in the painting".
I'll be showing some of these plein air paintings in July
here at the studio. They will be posted to the plein
air gallery as they are finished.
February 13, 2007
I have gone to the desert
to paint. I'll be in touch when I get back....around April 10.
In the meantime, the studio is closed. Email me if you like...it
may take a few days for me to reply. The Butternut Gallery in
Montrose is showing some of my latest work while I am gone. Give
Tom or Betty a call for their hours...570-278-4011
February 3, 2007
Seven new paintings: December
Cold Front, Winter Sunset,
Friends, House
in Town, Montrose Backyards,
Sweeter Pastures and Silence
- all pastels. (I have a few unphotographed small watercolors,
too, but they are not posted on the website. You'll have to come
over to see those.)
January 13, 2007
A new painting of the month,
a new exhibition calendar for the
new year. I have many, many things in mind to paint this year
and January is my favorite month for being shut in the studio
amidst my pastels, paints, and muses. Happy New Year and I hope
to see you in 2007.
Rosalita and Laika keeping good company on the
studio floor. January 2007
December 29, 2006
I thank everyone who visited my studio and/or website in
2006. You made my year successful. I tried to keep up; new paintings
ran neck & neck with sales. So, not only did you make my year,
but I've got plenty of painting time to look forward to in 2007.
Good work, exciting ideas and a new year lying ahead are truly
a blessing.
December 2, 2006
New Painting of the Month...last
one of the year! This weekend is the last chance for open studio
hours: unless you call for an appointment; today & tomorrow
11-5.
570-278-2479.
November 25, 2006
Two new paintings ( Dawn Creeps
and Grey Barns), nine sold this weekend,
but there are plenty left for holiday shoppers. December 1, 2
& 3 will be my last official open house weekend of the year.
Plenty of prints available:large, small, framed & unframed.
Stop in Friday night 4-7 or Sat & Sun 11-5. Visit anytime
with an appointment. 570-278-2479.
November 15, 2006
Four new paintings: two in each gallery. October
Garden #6, November Garden,
Williams Pond & a new improved
Colourful Kale Garden.
November 1, 2006
New Painting of the Month.
October 26, 2006
Six new paintings: Dignity, Indian
Summer, October Garden 2,
October Garden 3, October
Garden 4 and October Garden
5. And one half new painting Three
Tulips.
October 17, 2006
I am still reeling from the Artists'
Open House Weekend. So many visitors (300+) to the studio,
so many paintings (23) gone to new homes, so many perfect fall
days (all 3)!
This is the afternoon plein air pastel demo that I did on Monday
for a small crowd of visitors. It is almost finished here. Indian
Summer. It is one in a stream of new work...nothing like bare
walls to inspire my creativity.
Two new prints, too. Evening Graze
and Polka Dot Pitcher. They
are both large and sell for $95 ($20 shipping for up to 5 prints).
September 27, 2006
Six new paintings: Polka Dot Pitcher,
I Fall to Pieces, Tamaracks,
Pretty Morning, McAllister's
Pride and Orange Dahlia.
Come visit them during the Artists'
Open House Weekend-October 7, 8 & 9.
September 5, 2006
Seven new paintings: well almost framed and up on the wall. Yellow
Canoe and Birds' Spa are in the
Plein Air Gallery. Summer Show
Offs, Hill Top Pond, 'Round
the Bend, Bales at Dawn and
the lone watercolor of the group, Creek
Flats Garden can all be found in the Watercolor and Studio
Gallery.
 July
17, 2006
I'm in the process of framing three new plein air paintings
done in my garden this month: Summer
Showers, Poppy Patch and Over
the Hill...nothing old and wrinkled about it.
July1, 2006
The annual summer open studio is underway with a well attended
reception last night. Cultivated Ground is the name of this year's
exhibit of paintings and will be open every day from 10-6pm through
and including July 9th. Yes, on the 4th also. Susquehanna County
has been decared a Federal Disaster Area. Hallstead/Great Bend
area is probably the most severely affected with many bridge and
road washouts and closings all through our area and surrounding
counties as well. Route 81 is open and the New Milford exit and
706 to the studio are all open. You can check here
for detailed road closing info. Or call the studio 570-278-2479.
June 9, 2006
Finally got the new painting of the month posted here.
Usually I pick a favorite painting for this spot, which is the
case with this one. As I've said before, some paintings are easier
to paint than others. It is a gift from the muse when it happens
and I am always grateful.
This month I was over a week late posting because I was away
at sheepherding camp with my dog, Rosalita.
We were keeping company with a flock of Tunis sheep, plenty of
border collies, an Australian Shepherd, a Wheaton Terrier and
a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog some of which are turning up in my
paintings on the easel. Look back!
May 21, 2006
Four new paintings. Look: Out Back,
Morning on the Creek, Better
Days, and Whitney's Barn.
I am working on smallish watercolor spring bouquets, too. They
won't all be photographed, but I will put a selected few up from
time to time.
May 15, 2006
I won a prize!!!! Read all about
it!
April 24, 2006
Two more new things; this time prints:
Tunkhannock Viaduct at Nicholson and Wild Child Garden.
April 13, 2006
Two new watercolors: orchid
botanicals. A pair of
two pairs.
April 3, 2006
The new painting of the month
is posted. After the big show in Binghamton, I've been re-arranging
the paintings here in the studio. Call for an appoitment to see
some of my new work. 570-278-2479
March 29, 2006
I've been to the southwest....Tucson, Nogales, etc. I thought
I needed a vacation from painting. Here is a photo
of me spending some meditative personal time with my sketchbook
and my beloved desert. I came home with ideas for paintings, though.
March 11, 2006
April Fool's Day Reception at Orazio Salati Gallery 4-7 on Saturday,
April 1st. No joke!
March 1, 2006
All 29 paintings are at Orazio Salati
Gallery awaiting the opening on Binghamton's First Friday,
March 3rd (6-9pm). Of course I've spent plenty of time looking
at each of them as I was painting the past few months, but the
excitement of seeing each and every one lit beautifully on the
walls of this very nice gallery is building, and I anticipate
a lovely evening sharing my work with others.
New painting of the month here.
February 23, 2006
Seven more new paintings
framed and waiting by the door to be delivered to Orazio
Salati Gallery tomorrow morning.
January 30, 2006
Three more new pastel paintings from the studio.
January 14, 2006
One new watercolor and five new pastels. All
studio paintings.
January 2, 2006
A breath of summer air (and boy, do we need it here in Northeast
Pennsylvania) can be found in the new year's first painting of
the month. I'm presently at work on conjuring up some sunshine
- also in short supply here. Best Wishes for your New Year.
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