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News Updates!

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Updated Jan. 19, 2011

Funky: Dunno whut for, but sent a Letter to Hugh.

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Updated Nov. 20, 2010

Newsletter Nov. 2010
NEW ALASKA PAINTINGS
The Alcan, Naknek on Bristol Bay, May-Sept. 2010
Narrative about working on the new paintings, plus some snapshot photos.
See Newsletter Nov. 2010

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Updated Oct. 26, 2010

Six new Alaska paintings
- five from Naknek, Alaska on Bristol Bay -- home of the world's greatest red salmon fishery.
- one from the Alaska-Canada Highway, painted in May on the drive from Seattle to Anchorage.

New portraits -- two paintings and one drawing -- from Naknek, Alaska.

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Spence is in current Studio Visit, a juried artist catalog published Spring 2010,
by The Open Studios Press, Boston MA.

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Updated Jan. 8, 2010

New: portrait drawings Fran Goffinett and Tom Sawyer; small Indian River Lagoon painting, Eau Gallie Causeway Afternoon.

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Updated April 12, 2009

Spence is in current Studio Visit, a juried artist catalog published Spring 2009,
by The Open Studios Press, Boston MA.

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Funky news: Special bail-out prices for two FUNKY reproductions!
Also funky sympathy tough times kickback for Wall St. & banker execs, one time only, no questions asked!

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ATTN: Non-profits trying to save us from ourselves:
We wanna help. Inquire about special funky fund-raisers! Contact us.

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2009 Schedule for Liquid Muse Traveling Exhibition
Florida's American Heritage River: The Art of the St. Johns Region
Exhibition of 45 Florida artists, includes Spence Guerin's Tootoosahatchee

Feb. 15-Mar.31
Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville FL

Apr. 15-May 30
Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science, Tallahassee FL

Aug. 3-Sept. 9
Florida School of the Arts, St. Johns River Community College, Palatka FL

Sept. 15-Nov. 23
Museum of Florida Art (formerly Deland Museum of Art), Deland FL

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Updated Nov. 9, 2008

New Funky drawing, Reading the Paper.

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Spence is in current Southern Edition of New American Paintings “Juried Exhibition in Print” Vol. 76, published June 2008, by The Open Studios Press, Boston MA.

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Liquid Muse
Florida's American Heritage River: The Art of the St. Johns Region
Exhibition and Public Forum

Aug. 30-Oct. 19
Liquid Muse Opening Exhibition
Florida's American Heritage River: The Art of the St. Johns Region
Exhibition of 45 Florida artists, includes Spence Guerin's Tootoosahatchee
Co-curated by Mallory O'Connor and Gary Monroe
Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville FL
The exhibition will travel around FL in 2009.

Fri. Oct. 3, 2008 - 8:30am-7:30pm
PUBLIC FORUM
Preserving the Past - Sustaining the Future in the St. Johns River Region
Day long program of presentations and panel discussionsby authors, artists, state officials, including
Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville FL

9:30-11:30am SESSION 1
SECRET LIFE OF WATER: HYDROLOGY OF ST. JOHNS WATERSHED AND IMPORTANCE OF WATER RESOURCES

Chair: Bill Belleville, author of Losing It All to Sprawl and River of Lakes:A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River
Panelists included: Cynthia Barnett, author of award-winning Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.; Neil Armingeon, St. Johns Riverkeeper; and others.

1-3pm
SESSION 2
LIQUID MUSE: ART INSPIRED BY THE ST. JOHNS WATERSHED REGION

Chair: Mallory O'Connor, Professor Emeritus of Art History
Panelists included artists Sydney McKenn, Margaret Ross Tolbert and Spence Guerin
Discussion of their work, the St. Johns River, and public water resources.

3:15-5:15pm:SESSION 3
FLORIDA'S EDEN: ROLE OF THE ARTIST IN TOURISM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY IN WATERSHED

Co-Chairs: Annie Pais and Stewart Thomas, Co-Directors, Florida's Eden Project
Panelists includes others

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Thurs. Sept. 18, 2008 / 7pm
SLIDE TALK
Artists Sean Sexton and Spence Guerin spoke on Art and Agriculture in St. Johns River Basin
Harn Museum of Art, University of FL, Gainesville FL. Sean Sexton is an artist/poet/cattleman, Treasure Hammocks Ranch, Vero Beach FL.

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Posted July 11, 2008

- New portrait drawing, John Haiducek on portraits page.

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Posted June 27, 2008

- Two new Florida landscape paintings, and one small painting from Oregon, on Landscape Paintings page.
- Two new small still life paintings -- see Still Life Paintings and Drawings.

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Posted Feb. 1, 2008

- On Portraits page: Billy & Ricky, completed in December. Also a few older portrait paintings and drawings added to the page.
- Final photos for three Alaska landscape paintings, see final update, photos and story.
- Yes, various landscape paintings and other works are available. For availability and pricing, please contact us.

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Posted Dec. 1, 2007

Three Alaska landscape paintings complete. See Landscape Paintings.

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Posted July 5, 2007

Alaska painting project nears completion, see update for On the Little Su River painting.

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Posted Apr. 11, 2007

Lots of work added, some new, some old...
- New portrait drawing of Kaori and an old drawing recently reworked: Patricia
- New red rose drawings and one small painting, see Still Life
- Figure drawings, new and old

- Self portrait drawings from the past
- Landscape paintings, some old and some not-so-old
- Watercolor paintings, finally added detail views of Homer Spit in Alaska, plus other watercolors
- Funky stuff, new and not-so-old

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Posted Dec. 11, 2006:

STILL LIFE PAINTINGS
Three new small oil paintings in Candle Series.

WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS
Two 1991 watercolors painted in Sudan, Texas and Cairo, Illinois on the Ohio River, published in Aramco World magazine in 1994 but never exhibited, see watercolor page.

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Posted Nov. 2006:

ALASKA LANDSCAPE PAINTING PROJECT
Two of three landscape paintings now complete*, see Landscape Paintings.
*
Later decided they were not finished and work continued on both of them.




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