Exhibit Wall: Wall 9

Motherling (Queen Mary Lincoln Mellen Palmer), Lindsay Hand, Oil on Canvas

Artist Biography

Lindsay Hand is a Colorado-based artist and forensic researcher. Her primarily self-taught journey has led her to exhibit oil painting at galleries, history museums, and cultural centers across the U.S. Hand’s work delves into power structures and the human spiritual experience, often presented in collaboration with institutes beyond traditional gallery spaces.

 

Glorious Garden of Light, Sushe Felix, Acrylic on Board

Artist Statement 

My work involves a combination of my ongoing interest in the American Regionalists and Modernist Art Movements from the past and my desire to find new and different ways in which to depict the natural rhythms and movement found in nature. As a native of Colorado, I feel my work is all about the brilliant color, dramatic forms and shapes, and the intense lights and darks of the American Southwest. I like to create compositions which utilize and repeat both geometric and organic forms which achieve movement throughout the painting.
Ultimately I wish to instill in my work a sense of joy along with a feeling of mystery and magic and hope it brings the same to those who view it.

Pikes Peak North View, Ramona Lapsley, Linocut

Artist Statement 

I have been a artist my entire life, my memories of being 8 years old drawing horses and being included in a group of children in Denver Public Schools that attended field trips and after school classes at rec centers for drawing. My interest continued as a young artist, taking every class I could in high school and eventually becoming a art educator. In college, I took a printmaking class and have continued to love it as my primary medium.

I have been focused on linocut printmaking for the past ten years. Prior to that I focused on intaglio images of Colorado sport fish, having returned to Colorado and reminiscent of family who were avid fisherman. My work now is linocut and is inspired by local wildlife, birds at my feeder and their surroundings. I also love wildflowers and gardening and am inspired by my outings with the Garden Painters group. I have returned to landscapes, first depicting Arches National Park and now more locally, Pikes Peak and the Garden Of the Gods. The image in the collection- Pikes Peak North View was made from a photo taken at the Farrish Recreation area. My linocuts are printed with oil based ink on Rives BFK paper. I hand color the print with watercolors and liquid inks. These are done in my studio at the Manitou Art Center. My images are a reflection of my views, and time in a space, hiking and road trips give me a renewed appreciation for living in Manitou Springs and the state of Colorado.

Learn more about the artist on her website www.ramonalapsley.com.

 

General Palmer, Jess Preble, Oil on Canvas

Artist Statement

Born in Greeley, Colorado in 1988, Jess Preble has spent time studying art in San Francisco, Austin, TX, and Colorado. Although working primarily in oil paint, her artistic experience ranges across all mediums of creation and also includes curation and teaching. She now resides in Colorado Springs CO, where she is available for private commissions or gallery collection proposals.

Cripple Creek Mines, Ernestine Parsons, Oil on Canvas

Portrait of Anne Adams, Anne Parrish, Oil on Canvas

Artist Biography 

Anne Lodge Parrish, born in Claymount, Delaware in 1859, thrived in a world of art and creativity. She married a fellow artist, Thomas Parrish (1846-1899), whom she met while they were students at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The couple moved to Colorado Springs in 1885, although Thomas and his first wife, Fanny Cavender Parrish, a granddaughter of famed abolitionist and suffragist Lucretia Mott, moved to Colorado Springs in 1872 and lived there until Fannie’s death in 1883 at age 27.

In Colorado Springs, Thomas and Anne Lodge Parrish joined architect and artist Frank T. Lent to form the city’s first art school, modeled after the academies of Europe and the American East. Anne Lodge Parrish was known for portraiture and etchings, primarily from the 1890’s. Her oil portrait of Anne Adams, completed in 1888, hangs in the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. A portrait of her husband, Thomas, is part of the city’s El Paso Club collection. Both works demonstrate her considerable artistic skill.

Parrish was the mother of writer and book illustrator Anne Parrish Titzell (1888-1859) and of George Dillwyn Parrish (1894-1941)

Thomas Parrish was uncle to Maxwell Parrish, artist and illustrator during America’s “Golden Age of Illustration” in the first part of the twentieth century. Maxwell featured the Broadmoor Hotel, owned and operated by mining baron Spencer Penrose, in a painting that hangs in the hotel’s lobby. Thomas Parrish joined Count James Pourtales in the region’s early commercial development, including successful speculation in Cripple Creek gold. In Newport in the Rockies, historian Marshall Sprague points to Pourtales’s fortunes has having derived in part from investments in the early growth of the exclusive Broadmoor area at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain. These wealthy connections cemented Thomas and Anne’s roles as community leaders in both culture and commerce. Near the end of his life, Thomas was publisher of the Colorado Springs Gazette.

In a special edition of the Gazette, “Colorado Springs at 150 Years,” July 8, 2021, writer Linda Navarro cites Thomas and Anne Parrish as important early artists in the region, along with Charles Craig and Thomas Moran.