Palm Artists

[tjwalters]

Finally managed to hunt down Gunni Nelsson Price on the web.  Her site is here, but it's pretty bad, so I pulled out some of the pictures (after digging through the site to find them).  They're pretty large, so I'm just posting the links.

http://home.earthlink.net/~gunnib....008.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~gunnib....009.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~gunnib....011.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~gunnib....012.jpg

[John in Andalucia]

Here is a wonderful selection of palms featured in art through the ages. More links are on the left menu. Palms in art I

[plantapalm]

I am from Fort Pierce where most of the Highwaymen are from, along with Beanie Backus. There is another artist named Rick Kelly from here that is not as well known but painted with Beanie from 1985 until his death in 1990. He just recently has gain notoriety with a commission of 80 painting of the Indian River Lagoon, for a book called Treasure Waters. I purchased a geeclay titled Along the Beach #10/50. Here is the 1 purchased, and here is a link to his site Treasured Waters Gallery. There are some amazing palm tree paintings on there. Also here is the link to the Backus Gallery it also has 6 pages of Highwaymen paintings as well as Beanie's.

This one is titled Along the Beach, and this is a beach here in Fort Pierce. My picture does not do it justice.

[Geoff]

Here's a few my own: Copernicia baileyana watercolor and a Christmas palm (for cards)

[Geoff]

This was the palm society of Southern California Tshirt a few years back... back in the days when we had a journal...

[Kim]

I love your sketches, Geoff. I am most impressed by the true relative proportions, not easy to express with pen and paper.

[osideterry]

Really nice work their Geoff. (I'm glad Dean made it possible to post bigger files.) More?

[Phil]

In our part of the world, two artists come to mind:

Edith Bergstrom

http://www.palmpaintings.com/

Jenny Florivita

http://www.floravita.com/

And, in Flordia, Lester of course.

Phil

[madagascarbob]

[Patrick]

Wow, sorry I came into this conversation so late! I, too, enjoy the highwaymen, But I'm going to have to agree with Phil on this one- my favorite artist in the whole wide world is Jenny Floravita.

Oh, I guess I am a bit partial since I'm married to the artist!

[sur4z]

check out this website for hundreds of highwaymen paintings.

http://www.artlinkinternational.com/

Edited October 13, 2008 by sur4z