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Katharine Butler Gallery
1943 Morrill Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
941.955.4546
Hours:
Tues-Sat 11-4 pm/Friday 11-4 pm; 6-9 pm.
Artist receptions and Towles Court Artwalks are 3rd Friday of each month from 6-10pm.
Moonlight Fridays are 1st, 2nd, and 4th Fridays of the month from 6-9 pm.
| Below is a list of the artists we represent. Click on the artists picture or name for more bio information and artwork. |
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CHARLIE BARMONDE |
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How could an artist resist painting the joy of the tropics, the colors and vibrancy found in no other climate? Over the years, I have found many occasions to depict my interpretation of tropical life, whether through actual paintings and drawings done on site in different locations here and elsewhere in the world, or through creating joyful places and scenes of my own imagining. (more)
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My spirited watercolors and collages are a reflection of my personal interests in life . The ambiance and beauty of color found in birds, sea life, tropical vistas and people of the Caribbean and Florida are daily inspirations. My years of travel and living aboard a sailboat have enhanced my awareness of nature and inspired my clear, bright colors. (more) |
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Circles, squares and triangles, are the building blocks of visual imagery, transform them into globes, orbs, blocks, pyramids, cones and cylinders. Embellished with light, they take on a sense of being, a sense of belonging within a space. Add a touch of atmosphere and they begin to float and occupy space within the confines of the canvas. (more) |
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My artistic career started at a very young age when my mother entered a painting I had done of my stuffed panda bear in a clothesline exhibit. Since then, I have had a passion for art and can’t imagine life without it. My extensive travels have provided wonderful subject matter for my paintings and I enjoy working on location. (more) |
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This beautiful blue planet on which we live, and which sustains us, is a place of astounding beauty...Particularly exotic are the wilderness areas...remote corners of the world...the places without trees...the cabines and small buildings on rocky outcroppings...perhaps adjacent to large wild fields...or water...alone with the elements. (more) |
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Paradise is everywhere to be found. Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it. Its magic can be heard in the sound of the babbling brook, seen in the soft colors in a field of grass and found in the quiet reflection experienced in a cemetery. (more) |
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I am drawn to watercolor as a medium because it is spontaneous and uncontrollable. The thought that you can capture motion and color in water adds to the mediums excitement. My Paintings are full of life and movement; they have an architectural but vitreous quality. Every time I pick a subject to paint, I enjoy finding its form and ultimately its sensuality. (more) |
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My first job, a burden and a joy, was the preserver of family photographs and ephemera. Along with this responsibility came the title of inheritor-of many-an-ancestral-junk-drawer. This one is dangerous for me; it is quite possible that I don’t need a copy of my grandmother’s 1940 tax return but I am not so sure yet, so into the files it goes until a decision or a hurricane happens. (more) |
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My images are symbolic, derived from personal experience, imagination and dreams. The rough, imperfect and scarred surfaces of my mixed- media monotypes metaphorically reveal the fragility of both the earth and all the life on it. These works of art express my belief that only when we are able to live in a harmonious relationship with all living creatures can we truly fulfill our potential as human beings and value the paradise we have been given. (more) |
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I have always been drawn to the vertical form. Rebirth, growth and change are central to my sculpture. They signify the upward thrust in nature. I found myself as an artist through steel – manipulating it, transforming it, sculpting it. Coming from a glass background, I was challenged to incorporate the two contrasting mediums into vertical structures. Glass is at the core of my work. (more) |
Fabrics are an integral part of our lives. They are sensuous, they are practical, they give us comfort, and they make us smile. We use them to wear, to sit on, to sleep on, and to walk on. For me they also belong to the art world. The unique luster of silk fabrics lends itself to a rich media for wall hangings that have a three-dimensional character. The bold colors are well suited to my vision of nature inspired designs using a spontaneous process and putting a smile on the viewer's face. Touch them! (more) |
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Since we’ve walked upright, beads have made us beautiful. My love of African art propelled me into a study of how the beads were made, who made them, how they designated status, that they were traded for almost everything, including slaves. Wearing these beads is like wearing our history. They reflect our ongoing connection to those who have gone before us, to the earth, to the ongoing nature of life. (more) |
The world is already perfectly composed. For me, my art is a matter of recognizing and recording the fully-formed compositions which constantly present them to my trained photographer’s eye. This is not really a matter of study any more. It is instinct. I am especially fond of botanical subjects, although it is not any one particular subject which moves me to reach for my camera. (more) |
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As an artist, everything I see interests me, whether it be a man-made object or a part of nature. In my world, everything cries out to be represented by art. I enjoy using both traditional and non-traditonal media to interpret what is around me. My current series, "Dimensions of Nature," explores the textures, colors and depths I experience in fields of flowers. The works are created in several layers. (more) |