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Five Painters and a Potter coming in March and Clay Place on Wheels

2/11/2013

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5 Painters and a Potter
Sunday March 17, 2013
11:30am-5pm
Outdoor event at the Clay Place, 1555 Shadowlawn Dr., Naples; featuring Phil Fisher, Jeff Fessenden, Paul Arsenault, Jim Rice, Natalie Guess and Tara O'Neill. Bluegrass Music by Capt. Joe and the Bottom Feeders.

About the Artists

Phil Fisher - www.philfisherfineart.com

Phil Fisher has been painting in Naples,FL in watercolors and oils, professionally, for the past 40 years. The majority of his work is done "plein air", so he has a visual preference for landscapes.

Jeff Fessenden - www.fezzart.com

Jeff Fessenden uses watercolor, oil, pen and ink and acrylic depending on the needs of the project. In the 80's he created over a hundred humorous themed cards, some of which can be found on his site.

Paul Arsenault - www.arsenaultstudio.com

Paul’s vibrant and widely collected paintings reflect a rhythm and pattern that

distinguish his easily recognizable style. His lifelong pursuit to paint contemporary life in coastal communities is enhanced by his passion for history and his natural storytelling ability.

Jim Rice - www.naplesclayplace.com

Jim Rice has created environmental ceramic pieces, including fireplaces, wall murals, pool tiles, fountains, animals and planters. His repertoire of functional works includes place settings of dishes, serving bowls, and decorative pieces highlighted by his lively fish platters which are oven, dishwasher and microwave safe.

Natalie Guess - www.natalieguess.com

An artist who loves working with her hands, Natalie Guess is a natural for the rare art form known as batik.

Tara O'Neill- www.taraogallery.com

The tropical palette of her childhood continues to significantly affect Tara's work. Although most noted for her vivid oil paintings, she has admirably proved her hand at drawing, photography, print-making, assemblage sculpture, carpentry, bartending, and referring to herself in third-person.

Samples from our workshop at The Players Club in Lely on January 30th

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Photo by DAVID ALBERS, Daily News
Naples resident June Sochen, left, and Jane Wahl select a ceramic fish wall piece with at the 7th annual "5 Painters and a Potter" event at the Clay Place on Sunday, Mar. 1, 2009, in Naples. The event gathers six longtime artists in Naples, Jerry Vallez, Phil Fisher, Jim Rice, Paul Arsenault, Natalie Guess and Jeff Fessenden, for an afternoon of sharing their work, local music and socializing. David Albers/ Staff

Article by VALERIE SYREN
Posted March 10, 2010 at 8:47 p.m.
For artists in Naples, a desire to return to the past may be the best future. It has certainly helped to establish a very special — and very successful — type of art show.

Once a year, six local artists get together and host “Five Painters and a Potter,” a small art show that contrasts with the bigger, white-tent shows that are typically prominent in the Naples weekend landscape. In fact, these art soirees are becoming a celebratory way of business life for artists in Collier and south Lee County — several of the artists at the event Sunday will have also been at another Saturday night.
In all, six different art/entertainment happenings will give Southwest Florida art lovers plenty to explore, admire and possibly buy.

Artists Phil Fisher, Natalie Guess, Paul Arsenault, Jerry Vallez, Jim Rice and Jeff Fessenden have one of the longest running soirees. They’ll be showing and selling their works in various mediums in a beautiful outdoor setting at The Clay Place for the sixth year. Located at Jim Rice’s pottery studio on Shadowlawn Drive just north of Davis Boulevard, its little haven of tropical landscaping provides a perfect backdrop for the artists to showcase their work in a Sunday show known as “Five Painters and a Potter:” Rice, the potter, is joined by the five local painters at his studio. The Clay Place. Local bluegrass music and refreshments will add to the ambience.

The show “seemed like a natural evolution of our own individual careers,” said Rice. All of these artists have lived in Naples for more than 20 years. Back when they first began showcasing their artwork in the area, the exhibits were always small and had a more close-knit atmosphere. “Five Painters and a Potter” has successfully attempted to recapture that essence, they say.

Rice’s studio is lush with the vegetation that thrives in Naples. Among the tropical plants, one can find his pottery pieces cleverly tucked in everywhere; his benches and sculptures seem to sprout from the ground just as naturally as the plants that grow there. Mosaic pathways link a few small structures — the studio, the gallery and the office — together.

Rice is known for his fish platters, available in numerous sizes and vibrant colors, and able to serve as anything from dinner plates to soap dishes. Along with the platters, Rice also creates decorative wall pieces, mugs, goblets, fountains, even fireplaces.
Fessenden produces fine art in trompe l’oeil mural painting and oils as well as humorous piece, such as the invitations to Five Painters and a Potter. It was his turn to create the piece, and: he caricatured all of the artists’ faces and placed them on a bright yellow background.
Watercolor artist Paul Arsenault will join the others at the event. His landscapes distill a Naples influence. But Arsenault’s world travels mean scenes from Hawaii, Nantucket, the Caribbean Islands, and even Vietnam complement his paintings of Florida palm trees and beaches and old Naples.
The natural environment of southwest Florida helps to influential Rice, as well as the other artists featured at this event, and another group who participate in the City Dock area’s “Art after Dark.”

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Five Painters and a Potter coming in March and Clay Place on Wheels

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