WNCPAP PAINT OUT

6X8 Oil  The Wood Cord Work Shop

WNCPAP Paint Out

 Earth Day At Warren Wilson

December Show

LOCAL VIEW

The Design Gallery Presents paintings from the WNC Pleain Air Painters  April 22-May 30, 7 South Main Street  Burnsville,NC

New Gallery, Skyuka Fine Art Gallery

Tryon, NC has a new art gallery owed by Kim and Richard Nelson, present artists are Richard Nelson, Richard Oversmith, Kelly W. Phipps, Anna Jameson, Williams  Jameson and  Linda Cheek,  please come by and check it out.

Linda Cheek A Painter's Perspective

A cool ride to 16 Patton Ave. at the opening of the current exhibition with artist Sterling Edwards, Jerry LaPoint, and Linda Cheek, Sept 1-Oct 1 2010 at 16 Patton Fine Art Gallery in Asheville,N.C.

A Painter's Paintings at 16 Patton Fine Art Gallery

Some of the paintings that will be in the exhibition in September 2010 at 16 Patton Fine Art Gallery in  Asheville, North Carolina.  The reciption is on a Wednesday the 1st of September 5:00 PM, I look forward to seeing you there.

This painting was done on a busy day in Weaverviller,North Carolina, they have a wonderful custard.

A 8 X 10 Oil/Panel, painted in Dillsboro, North Caronila

One of my paintings that was posted onVirtual Paint-Out. A 6X8 Oil on Panel.

Exhibition at 16 Patton

 

After the Paint Out at Pinchot Forest, Stuart Roper's solo exibition " The way I see it"  at 16 Patton Fine Art Gallery   July 17- Aug. 29th.

New Fine Art Shop

A invitation to a new web-store where you can shop for original oil paintings all the same size (pochade), all the same price and all oils painted on a primed panel for your fine art collection. So come by anytime, I will be posting five new paintings each month for exhibition. 

Check it out at click here:

 lindacheekartist.webs.com

16 Patton Gallery

"Hot Dog" Oil on Panel,6X8
"Dam at Marshall" Oil on Panel, 12X16
"Another Day With Snow " Oil on Canvas, 24X36
The snow is just not letting up, so I am posting my new paintings to be on exhibit at 16 Patton Gallery.

State Park

The Western North Carolina Plein Air Painters painted in the Dupont State Forest last week.

This is a 10x 10 en plein air, oil painting on panel of Hooker Fall in the Dupont forest. The rush of the water was so loud it was some time before I could hear normally again. The other painting is a 3x3 oil painting on canvas board, I worked up from the 10x10 painting. It will be on exhibition in the "3x3x3 Show" at Place Place in Asheville Art Museum for the next month.

June Contemporary Representation

Linda Cheek, Raymond Chorneau, Margaret Dyer, Sterling Edwards, Stuart Roper, John Mac Kah, Lori-Gene, Mark Henery Steve Lance, Jerry La Point, Suzy Schultz, R. John Ichter,


Jane Jaskevich, Karin Jurick, Richard Oversmith, Gereg Osterhaus, Edwaed Kellogg, Herman Leonhardt, Signe Grushovenko, Denise Stewart-Sanabria,Osiris Rain
16 Patton artist portray images that surround us in our everyday world - depictions of person, place, or object that directly represents external reality. Two of my oil painting that will be in the exhibition at 16 PATTON Gallery, Ashevill,NC .

TRAC-Paint out 2009 Burnsville,NC

Winner of the The Monet Award 12X12 O/P
For one day about 30+ artist were painting in the TRACO Paint-Out in Burnsville,NC, this was a rain or shine event and we were blessed with a glorious day. All juried artwork will be on display at the TRACO Gallery from May 30-June 27,2009

16 PATTON GALLERY "BEST IN SHOW" Feb. 7-28 2009



SOLD





PATTON Gallery with the WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB will have an exhibition of dog painting by the artist of 16 PATTON. A portion of the sales will go to local animal shelters. Feb. 7-28 2009

Exhibition

Paintings in the

16 PATTON FINE ART GALLERY

Landscape:

Of Hope & Glory

Oct. 4 - Nov. 16, 2008

RECEPTION: Saturday, Oct. 4, 6 - 8 pm

Wired: Oil on panel

Breakfast: Oil on panel SOLD

Red Barn & Rain Clouds: Oil on panel

Jazz and Poetry
Daily or weekly or somewhat frequent journal with original poetry, some jazz, and a variety of ideas that spring from the head of wendi loomis.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Linda Cheek capturing the light painting en plein aire

While attending the opening of “From the Highlands to the Lowlands” at the Red Clover Gallery I had the chance to meet the artist of the hour Linda Cheek. However, since it was such a busy social evening we made plans to visit over the phone the following week. That evening I simply enjoyed wandering through the gallery and noticing the beautiful blues of a lake, the cotton candy lightness of a sky, and the exquisite detail of bicycles parked in downtown Charleston. Each painting seemed a little window into a moment of beauty somewhere in the Carolinas.

When we finally did speak, I started by asking her how she picked “Highlands to the Lowlands” for this show?

Plein-air is painting on location in the open. What I do is I take my paint box and get in my car and drive around until something grabs my attention. I’m usually there for an hour or hour and twenty minutes. I finish the painting there. The British painter John Constable was the first to do the landscape paintings. Up until then landscapes were just backdrops to something else. Then impressionists came along and took the work outside.

I’m in Marshall, NC. Sometimes I go down to the coast, but all my paintings are done on location in this area and on those trips. Another term, pochades, is a French word which means “small sketch” and what they call the painting box I take out. Anything under an 8x10 can be called a pochades.

How did you get interested in this type of painting?

I went to Ringling School of Art in Sarasosta and got a B.S. in fine art and at the time I didn’t realized that when our instructor packed us onto the bus and took us to the beach and told us “paint” that’s what we were doing. So really that’s how I was instructed to paint. Recently I’ve returned to that, and of course right now it’s very fashionable.

You say you recently returned, what were you doing before?

Well actually since 1990. Before 1990 I was working as an illustrator in Atlanta and they brought in computers and everything was going to be done on a Mac. I didn’t want to work on a computer. I knew that if I didn’t make that break then to become a fine artist I would never get to that. So, in 1990 I left a very cushy job and I move here and have been painting outdoors two days a week ever since.

There seems to be a contrast in your work from the detail of some of the downtown scenes with architecture to landscapes engulfed by the sky?

If you don’t have the passion it’s hard to make a good finished painting. I enjoy doing the detail and the architecture because I do so many landscapes I get to use colors that don’t exist in nature in those paintings. The sky paintings are probably left over from my days at Lockheed because I used to paint a lot of skies and then put C-5 and C-130 in it. I enjoy the sky because it’s more like abstract art. I’ve just thought of something…I went from plane paintings to plein aire. That’s funny.

What do you mean by abstract when you’re talking about painting the sky?

Any good painting whether it’s abstract or impressionist they all have an abstract design quality to them. Good abstract used to have some design to it. All of the laws of what makes a good composition and so forth. These laws are tried and true so you don’t reinvent the wheel. Composition, design and so forth are what I’m looking for in a sky painting. Those clouds can’t be like rocks, they are light and moving. It’s not like painting a rock or a tree it’s more atmospheric.

Do you have favorite paintings in this show?

No, not really. My next one is my favorite. I consider myself a student and will always be a student and I keep thinking my next one is going to be better.

Do you have favorite things that you stop for to paint?

I think besides the subject matter it’s the light and the effect of the light on the subject. See that’s why you’ve got to finish it within an hour because that light is changing. If you don’t finish it in that time you’re painting another painting because the shadow and the light have moved.

Have you ever done a second painting in the same setting?

Yeah, that’s why you do the little paintings. So you can get more than one out of where you have set up.If you’ve been there before you can go and get started and wait for the sun to do what you know is coming and create that effect.

When you go out are you racing to get to certain spots you’ve picked?

Anytime I go anywhere I’m constantly looking for something. After all these years I kind of know where I’m going to go or if I see something on the way. It’s not a race, it’s just a days work. It’s like a sales man goes to one door and knocks and if no one is there he goes to the next door. Every day is different and you may go to one place and not find what you’re looking for there so you move on. But it’s not a race. It’s something you find that you want to take the time to capture in a way that transfers the impact of what you’ve seen to the people who view the painting.

How long did it take to put together your first show in a gallery?

Even when I was working in Atlanta as an illustrator I had a small body of work that was being shown in galleries. Galleries want at least twenty so I don’t know if I can give you a time. From the day I moved here I was meeting with a group of artists who went out on Thursdays to paint and we were showing among ourselves. We met more artists and it just grew from that.

Which galleries show your work?

Red Clover, 16 Patten in Asheville, and Friedman’s in Savannah. Willow Wisp Farm Studios is the home of the Western North Carolina Plein aire painters. I’ve been in Ken Farmer’s auction house in Virginia and Skinner’s in Boston, Massachusetts. I’ve got a permanent painting at the Salmagundi Club in New York. It’s the oldest art club in the United States and has the reputation that goes with that, and they have shows and a permanent collection. The reason I’m in there is because I got the George Gray award several times, so as part of the award they take your piece as part of the collection. George Gray is one of the Coast Guard awards. On Governor’s Island in New York they have a coast guard station and they used to have a competition and I was a Coast Guard artist so I could submit and did.

We pause a moment in our conversation to look up the images of these paintings available on the internet. Were you in the Coast Guard or was this from Lockheed?

It was from Lockheed, that’s that C-130 in the Rescue on the North Slope painting. I found out you could be a Coast Guard artist and stay on the post where they’re stationed like in the barracks. They put you up as long as you were going to do a painting of anything related to the Coast Guard. I don’t know if the other services do this or not. It was incentive to do that. Lockheed got me the Coast Guard artist badge. I don’t know how they did that. I probably never would have even known about it if I hadn’t worked for Lockheed. I think the C-130 is the prettiest plane they make. The red on white is like putting lipstick and a string of pearls on the plane and makes it look better.

I noticed there are no airplanes in this show at all.
No, no.

Linda’s show of plein aire landscapes “From the Highlands to the Lowlands” will be at the Red Clover Gallery until September 10. For further information, please visit www.redclovergallery.com or call 864.457.3311. The Red Clover Gallery is located at 214 E. Rutherford Street in downtown Landrum, South Carolina.
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Interview

Rapid River Art & Culture Magazine

Linda Cheek is a former illustrator who has been painting en plein air since moving to Marshall, N.C. in 1990. In her new exhibition at 16 Patton Gallery " Landscapes: Of Hope and Glory"" in October. Linda has decided that she will concentrate her painterly efforts on images of place and on the mood of the timelessness of this region.

Q.When did you first realize you wanted to be an artist ?

A. My mother and aunt were both artist and interested in art, so I was encouraged early on and Ringling School of Art trained me. It has always been something I could not do with out. I guess, as my sons say, I have always pushed a pencil or brush, but I do love doing what I am blessed to do.

Q. What other Artists have influenced you and how ?

A. Being primarily a landscape painter, I'm drawn to some for technical reasons and some others for just the pure emotional power of the work .George Iness, John Singer Sargent, George Bellows are more emotional and I think of N.C. Wyeth,Richard Schmid more technically inspiring. Ken Auster sum this up well "Understanding intellectually, then painting passionately this is the key to successful painting."

Q.What inspires you to paint and how do you keep motivated ?

A. As far as being inspired ,well it is all around me.What a creation ! One of the great things about working all that time as an illustrator is I have been sincerely trained and because of deadlines there is no time for just waiting for the mood to hit you. You must find the motivation.

Q. Could you tell me more about your work ?

A. Because of the process I use to paint (plein air and alla prima), I feel I have the best advantage for capturing what I am after--- light, shapes, color, value and composition. There is a very good reason to take your studio outside, it is much easier. As Winslow Homer said "I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it."

Q. What is the best and worst part of being a full time working artist ?

A. The best part is I have complete freedom and control over my art.The hardest thing for me is the business end. I would much rather be out doors at my pochade box painting.

Q. What advice would you give an artist just starting out?

A. As artist living in a high tech world, the aesthetic cards of creativity are stacked against us, but for me the catapult has always been the practice of painting on location for one to two hours as often as possible. Just keep drawing, drawing, then paint; looking ,looking and looking again."Love the art in yourself and not yourself in art." My Life in Art,Stainislauski.

Linda Cheek's work can be seen at the exhibition, " Landscapes: Of Hope and Glory" opening October 4- and running through November 16. at 16 Patton Fine Art Gallery (located in historic downtown Asheville on the corner of Lexington Avenue and Patton Avenue)
16patton@bellsouth.net

Red Clover Gallery Linda Cheek's " From the Highlands to the Lowlands"

Showing Aug. 15th - Sep. 10th, 2008 - http://redclovergallery.com