Walls Fine Art Gallery

10/03/2024

Please be aware. The people in NC mountains are on their own. (language)

10/01/2024

We are working to coordinate bringing supplies into areas affected by Hurricane Helene by pack mule strings. We are planning to head to Weaverville, NC tomorrow, but available to go to other areas of need as well. Please reach out to us at 910-885-1402 if you know of specific needs and areas that we can get our mule strings in to help! We can bring supplies or pack in what your group has acquired already!

10/01/2024

05/24/2021

Mary Williams Fine Arts of Boulder, Colorado proudly launches a virtual fine art show and sale entitled AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31st at 10:00 am Mountain time.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL can be accessed by visiting https://www.marywilliamsfinearts.com/ and clicking on the American flag logo on the home page. Instructions on how to navigate the site and buy art will be given to you. We think this will be a "beautiful" experience for you!!

The show features America's top artists from all 50 states.

20% of all proceeds will be donated to FEEDING AMERICA, an organization that supports over 200 American food banks.

11/08/2020

For our friends out in Cali, Jeff Horn's Annual Open Studio, 280 Magnolia St, Costa Mesa, CA, will take place Sat and Sun, Nov 21 and 22, 2020, 10:30 to 4:30. hornart.com for more info.

10/26/2020

For those who have visited The Greenbrier, "Royals" by Larry Moore

10/25/2020

"By sheer effort, you get pretty good." -CM
To compensate for garbage sound: ”When we started out…You look back at stuff, it’s awful… Another thing about being a painter, you can’t be too self-critical in the beginning. Warning: Don’t be too self-critical in the beginning. Critical, but not too self-critical, or you’ll end up being paralyzed. You won’t be able to do anything. You have to have a certain lack of self-criticism, a sort of confidence, you know, ‘what I’m doing here is pretty darned good.’ I had a certain confidence, I think, in that regard. Whereas looking back, I mean, it was terrible, but luckily I kept em going. Maybe I was stupid enough, just stupid enough to keep going. The whole thing. Not to say to myself, ‘gee whiz, this is hopeless, I’ll never get anywhere here.’ I think we were talking, Ryan and I were talking about some painters we know like that. If you saw their work ten years ago, you wouldn’t think there was any future in the guy at all! And he worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and worked, and he comes out, you know, just be sheer effort… By sheer effort, you can get pretty good. Can’t be Sargent or Sorolla by sheer effort, but you can get pretty darned good.”

Digging through the archives! Charles Movalli clip from a 2014 demo. The sound is pretty rotten and Charlie was a fast talker, so here's a transcript, more o...

06/15/2020

John P**n --- The yearly "Traces of the West" invitational art exhibit and competition will proceed as usual in 2020. The exhibit opens with an artists' reception from 5-8 p.m. July 3, during Ogden, UT’s monthly First Friday Art Stroll, at the center, 2580 Jefferson Ave.
For those unable to attend the exhibit in person, online virtual tours and biographies on the artists will be available at www.ogden4arts.org, as well as the center’s Instagram and pages.

05/09/2020

An interesting read.

The outbreak magnified the absurdity of the moment, according to art historians