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Fyre Gallery

Locality: Braidwood, New South Wales

Phone: +61 429 666 619

Address: 84 Wallace St 2622 Braidwood, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.fyregallery.com

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22.01.2022 Georgia O’Keeffe’s fascination with shells began in her childhood, though she grew up far from the ocean in rural Wisconsin. The artist recalls, When I was sma...ll and went to visit my O’Keeffe grandmother [father's mother], I sometimes got into the parlor by myself and would take a shell from the ‘whatnot,’ a set of fancy shelves between two windows. The shelves held many things I was not to touch but when I got in there alone I would take a shell from the whatnot and hold it close to my ear. I had been told that the sound I heard was the sound of the sea I had not heard the sea at that time but it was wonderful to me to listen to it in the shell. So when I grew up and went where there were shells I was always looking for them. O'Keeffe began a some of her earliest seashell depictions in 1926 during a series of trips to coastal Maine and Lake George, New York. At the time, she was just beginning to come into her own style. Her focus on shells and other aquatic subject matter, were often done on an intimate scale, demonstrating the tenuous balance she was exploring between abstraction and realism. Later in life, O’Keeffe reflected on shells as subject matter, I have picked up shells along the coast of Maine farther south, in the Bermudas and Bahamas I found conch shells along the pure sandy beaches. Then when I was in Yucatan out on the beach from Merida there were fine bleached white shells in the undergrowth where the water must have washed them up Each shell was a beautiful world in itself Even now, living in the desert, the sea comes back to me when I hold one to my ear. Where in the world have you collected seashells? Let us know in the comments! Georgia O'Keeffe. Two Pink Shells/Pink Shell, 1937. Oil on canvas, 12 x 10 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [1997.4.5] #OKeeffeInspired

16.01.2022 I am honored to be one of the featured artists this month by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in New Mexico. Thank you.

15.01.2022 $12,000 in prizes....

14.01.2022 Join us for the first of two Artist Open Studio Weekends this year! 29-30 May 2021 20-21 & 27-28 Nov 2021 Visit our website to see the work of our latest n...ew members and artists. Find our map and member listing to easily navigate the Peninsula Studio Trail! See you there www.peninsulastudiotrailinc.org @jennifer.fletcher.artist @johntrebilco @johnstroomer @garygoodrichart @ajd_australia @david.glyn.davies @cathiecol @dianewilliamsonartist @gwenscottprintmaker @wendylouisehall @maradadij Cath John @backorye @jenniferbuntine Anni Dowd @jim_boland_metal_art_ @lizwalkerart @tammywarnerart @lisa.okeefe4 @clairebellespring @marta.gola @rosiebarberartwork @sharronokines50 @artbyjanistaber @carolinegraley @basilkouvelis @janicejohnstonartist See more

13.01.2022 Gotta love a string of Red Dots...today is the last day for Cotton & Dupain...it has felt like such a privilege to share these beautiful photos with the many, many people who have visited over the past month.

12.01.2022 Celebrating the end of a very successful and much enjoyed April show in fYREGALLERY...thanks to everyone who dropped in to relish the vintage photography of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain And the limited edition book with an original signed photograph has sold. A wonderful finish to the show

04.01.2022 SOLD: Max Dupain, Tamara Toumanova and Paul Petrov in "Le Spectre De La Rose", Ballets Russes c 1940 Silver Gelatin photograph from original negative for advertising of the ballet.

04.01.2022 DeAnn L Prosia will be exhibiting in fYREGALLERY in November 2022 which is something to really look forward to...

01.01.2022 My most recent etching, Court Square DIner, has been accepted into the 88th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Hudson Valley Art Association! YAY!