The Promise of Light II, limited edition print by Gabrielle Senza © 2007

The much anticipated release of Gabrielle Senza’s giclée prints, has resulted in swift sales this week!

As most print collectors know, the price per print will increase as the edition sells out. Please be sure to order your signed limited edition print early to get the best price.

The Promise of Light II Large Print

Image size: 20 x 40 inches

Edition size: 20 signed and numbered

Prints Currently Available: #5 – 20

Price for Prints:

• (#1 – #10) $2,500
  
  
• (#11 – #15) $3,000
  
  
• (#16 – #20) $TBD

The Promise of Light II Small Print

Image size: 11 x 22 inches

Edition size: 50 signed and numbered

Prints Currently Available: #3 – #50

Price for Prints:

• #1 – #10 $1,000
  
  
• #11 – #20 $1,250
  
  
• #21 – #30 $1,500
  
  
• #31 – #40 $TBD
• #41 – #50 $TBD

Prints Currently Available: #3 – #50

Feel free to contact us at ecoartgirl@mac.com or by calling 413.528.3917

A tingling sensation, pulsing through my body, makes me profoundly grateful to be alive right now, this very day, on this planet.

“How is it”, I think, “that I am so incredibly fortunate to be here at this moment to witness the setting sun’s metallic bronze highlight glowing brilliantly on the trunk of a young fruit tree? . . . And to delight in the spectacle of the sun’s light as it dances among the lower leaves and skirts across the delicate branches. . . Ahhhhh. Let me catch my breath!”

Great Barrington, MA

Just in time for the Tax-Free Weekend: New Prints by Gabrielle Senza!

The 6 x 10 foot painting that Berkshire-based artist, Gabrielle Senza is premiering this weekend at the Kasten Fine Art Gallery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts doesn’t meet the state’s requirements for art collectors to benefit from this weekend’s tax-free holiday. If it did, the fortunate buyers would save $2,000 on the sales invoice, as the painting is going for $40,000. However, the Massachusetts limit on the tax-free holiday is $2,500 for retail purchases.

Fortunately, collectors of Gabrielle Senza’s work – or those who’d like to be – can breathe a sigh of relief because the artist has just released two limited edition prints that are available for $2,500 and $1,000.

The archival pigment ink prints (also known as giclées) feature one of the earlier paintings from the artist’s very popular “Promise of Light” series.  Senza’s signed prints feature the second painting in the series – a striking golden river view featuring a distant range of the Berkshire hills and a cluster of trees standing along the embankment. With poetic wisps of grasses and river plants in the foreground, the scene offers a peaceful spot to both rest and meditate.

The artist is releasing the print in two sizes. A large print featuring a 20 x 40 inch image of the second painting in the series, in an edition of 20 prints, retailing for $2,500 each; and a smaller print, measuring 11 x 22 inches in an edition of 50, available for $1,000 each. Each print is hand signed and numbered by the artist.

The prints will be available this month at Kasten Fine Art Gallery and online at www.gabriellesenza.blogspot.com. Gabrielle Senza’s collaborators on the project are photographer Gregory Cherin and master printer Fred Collins of Berkshire Digital.

For more information, call Kasten Fine Art at 413.528.3300.

Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Internationally recognized artist, Gabrielle Senza will release a limited edition giclée print featuring a painting from her very successful “Promise of Light” series.

“The Promise of Light II” features a striking golden river view featuring a distant range of the Berkshire hills and a cluster of trees standing along the embankment. With poetic wisps of grasses and river plants in the foreground, the scene offers a peaceful spot to both rest and meditate.

The prints will be available this month at Kasten Fine Art Gallery and online at www.gabriellesenza.blogspot.com.

The artist is releasing the print in two sizes. A large print featuring a 20 x 40 inch image of the second painting in the series, in an edition of 20 prints, retailing for $2,500 each; and a smaller print, measuring 11 x 22 inches in an edition of 50, available for $1,000 each. Each print is hand signed and numbered by the artist.

Gabrielle Senza’s collaborators on the project are photographer Gregory Cherin and master printer Fred Collins of Berkshire Digital. For more information, call 413.528.3917; or visit www.gabriellesenza.blogspot.com.

It is important to remove the skin that forms over the surface of each stick when they’ve sat awhile and dried out. Then you can draw directly on your canvas, paper or wood surface, blend and smooth with brushes, or as I do, move the paint around on the surface with my hands (wearing rubber gloves of course).

Check out the R&F Website for inspiration and information.

Oh yes, the colors. . . Here are some of the colors I use most often:
naples yellow

brownish pink

turkey umber greenish

raw umber

brilliant extra pale yellow

neutral white

the list goes on and on. . .

August 11th marks the premier showing of the newest in Gabrielle Senza’s Promise of Light series of paintings at the Kasten Fine Art Gallery in Great Barrington, MA. On view for two days only, The Promise of Light, X will be featured August 11th and 12th, with a public reception on Saturday from 4 – 6pm.

The 6 x 10 foot oil painting was recently completed by the Berkshire based artist in her Great Barrington, Massachusetts studio. “Young trees reflecting in a crisp, calm pond are surrounded by a brilliant golden glow. The morning grove sits quietly just in front of a receding horizon of trees, behind which, the sun promises to warm its way through to a dazzling new day,” writes Senza of painting number ten in the series.

The Promise of Light series was started in 2006, when Senza was commissioned to create a 4 x 12 foot painting of the Catskill Mountains for the Philmont, NY restaurant, Local 111. “The quality of light and its effect on the distant views inspired a whole new realm to explore,” states Senza. “Mountains, rivers and trees all become actors in the play that comes to life on the canvas, offering inspiring new compositions.”

Gabrielle Senza is internationally recognized as an artist, educator, curator, and writer. She exhibits widely and has artwork in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, Fidelity Investments, Paine Webber, and in private collections around the world. One of the country’s preeminent environmental artists, Senza’s work has toured cities in the notable “Toxic Landscapes” exhibition organized in 2001 by the Puffin Foundation. She has taught at Mass MoCA, Cooper Union and Simon’s Rock College of Bard. Senza is the founder and Executive Director of the creative public arts initiative, Red Collaborative.

Drawn to Nature from a very early age,
I traced racoon tracks in the sand along the water’s edge
and drank colors from the sky.
Nature has been my mother and my teacher.
Through Nature I found Art.
Through Art, I found Salvation.

– Gabrielle Senza