Kate Sammons

Fine Art Oil Paintings and Commissioned Portraiture

Paintings 2016

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My current painting process:
I’ve always been intrigued by pattern and color. Currently I am exploring these elements and going back to a more polished, detailed and elegant style. The last couple years have been a practice and pursuit to find a more confident and straight forward approach to painting. In the earlier months of 2016, I continued this practice and still have a few direct paintings to share.  To learn more about  my artistic evolution you can read my updated post, Evolution.

You will see in the next coming months mostly smaller size paintings in various arrangements that evoke a feeling of serenity, beauty and comfort. These paintings take between 2-4 weeks to complete each, or between 80 to 160 hours between concept to new arrival at the gallery. They are painted on wood or composite panels, primed to a very smooth surface and finished with multiple layers of glazes and scumbles to achieve a richly dimensional surface detail. Some will have a more modern style with a clean, simple presentation with cradled unframed edges while others are given a more elaborate and decorative treatment with dark or gilded frames.

American Legacy Fine Arts

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American Legacy Fine Arts

I am very pleased to announce my partnership with American Legacy Fine Arts in Pasadena as my exclusive gallery and representative in the Los Angeles area. It is a wonderful benefit to be working in the same city as my gallery and they have shown me such a warm and enthusiastic welcome since coming aboard! With authoritative expertise, their services provide comprehensive education and assistance to some of the most distinguished patrons and collectors of contemporary-traditional fine art today.

American Legacy Fine Arts represents only the finest contemporary-traditional painters and sculptors, including 23 award-winning gallery artists, as well as additional contemporary and historic American art. This diverse group of artists provides our clients, beginning and established art collectors, with the opportunity to select perfect works of original art that will enhance their private and public collections Our artists utilize classical and realist techniques and are among the finest plein air, landscape, still life, figure, urban, and genre painters and sculptors in the nation. Affiliated professional organizations include:California Art Club, National Sculpture Society, Plein Air Painters of America, Oil Painters of America, and Portuguese Bend Art Colony.

ALFA specializes in personal service, including private art consultations and commissions as well as monumental sculpture installations and civic art projects.The art gallery is located in Pasadena, California just minutes from Downtown Los Angeles, and is situated in a tranquil neighborhood near the Rose Bowl Stadium, Gamble House, and Norton Simon Museum.To provide our clients with utmost service, we are open by private appointment, Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please call (626) 577-7733 to make your personal appointment and to receive directions to the gallery.

 

At American Legacy Fine Arts
With Gallery Director, Elaine Adams, at American Legacy Fine Arts

A selection of my paintings that were commissioned or are now currently available through ALFA. More to come by early next year~

To contact the gallery directly call 626.577.7733 or email info@americanlegacyfinearts.com. You can see my available work HERE, or learn more about gallery on their website at americanlegacyfinearts.com

 

Featured Painting October 2016

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Portrait of Sumner Hunt, 18 x 24 inches, oil by Kate Sammons
Portrait of Sumner Hunt, 18 x 24 inches, oil by Kate Sammons

Portrait of Sumner Hunt, collection of the Los Angeles Country Club. Sumner Hunt ( 1865 – 1938) was a prominent architect in Los Angeles from 1889 to the 1930s. One of his early projects in Los Angeles was to design the Bradbury Building in 1893 when he had moved to his own practice. During his partnership at the firm Hunt, Eager and Burns in 1911, he designed the Los Angeles Country Club. This commissioned painting, completed in September now hangs in the recently renovated entrance of the building. The portrait commission was arranged through my gallery American Legacy Fine Arts.

US Henry James stamp, 31st of Literary Arts series

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Exciting news! The 31st stamp in the Literary Arts series honoring Henry James is now available for preorder on the USPS store website! I was honored to be the artist who created the painting for this stamp and had the pleasure of working with Art Director/Designer Antonio Alcalá on the project. An article by Michael Baadke announcing the new stamp for Linn’s Stamp News can be read online.

Stamp for Henry James joins Literary Arts Series
Stamp for Henry James joins Literary Arts Series

To purchase a Henry James stamp booklet, you can visit the USPS Store here. https://store.usps.com/store/

 

Featured Painting June 2016

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tea-in-blue_web

Tea in Blue also features a Mexican glazed tile that I picked up from the Olvera Stree Market here in downtown Los Angeles and a decorative piece of fabric that I love because it reminds me of a dress that I was given as a gift from a man who sold Indian exports in Berkeley. I lived there for a few months some years ago and would bring a selection of his store merchandise to the Sausalito flea market on the sunny spring weekends.

It was a gorgeous white dress with blue patterned embroidery and a drawstring with little tinkly bells. This favorite dress traveled with me to Amsterdam and Morrocco later that year and became a part of my adventures there. I lost it afterward but it lives on in my memory with the scent of incense and the brilliant afternoon light and wind of the Mediterrean. This painting,I hope evokes the fragrance of afternoon tea, a bouquet of romance and nostalgia taking you to far away places.

The Paris Seminar

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The official catalog is now LIVE and available to view: Click here

The upcoming Paris Seminar exhibition has been in the stages of planning and development over the last year. When Vanessa and Sean asked me if I was interested in being a part of this amazing opportunity I did not have to think about it. I said yes immediately. Probably most people would jump at the chance to go to Paris and most artists would fall in love with the thought of painting in the historic studio “La Grande Chaumiere” near the Luxembourg Gardens where such greats as Picasso, Cezanne and Modigliani met and painted together. To make the idea even more enticing there will also be discourses on a broad range of classical subjects. One of the goals of the seminar is to understand art within the context of the humanities which is something that clearly speaks to my love of learning and cross-fertilization of ideas.

In addition to the vision and leadership of Vanessa and Sean, there is the group of artists, some who I already know and some whose work I greatly admire, who will be fellows during this trip. We will be putting our work up for sale during the upcoming exhibition this April to pay for the seminar which is scheduled to happen this August. The proceeds will pay each artist’s way individually and cover the airfare, lodging and some extra expenses during that time. There are also a number of generous sponsors who have come together and offered various donations to make the following exhibitions possible, to give visibility to the project and to provide materials and educational resources to the artists. The diversity of people, organizations and interests involved is a testimony to ideas and scope of the Paris Seminar.

You can read more about this independent professional fellowship here: http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/pages/22599612.php

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Paris Seminar Exhibition
http://www.parisseminar.com/
An exciting project by Academic Director Sean Forester, a classically trained artist who studied at Cambridge University and the Florence Academy of Art, will be leading seminars on composition and humanities. Advised by partner artist/writer Vanessa Rothe, as well as Iliya Mirochnik of the Repin Academy, and Alan Lawson of the Alpine Fellowship, the program will include visits to Paris museums and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In addition to the various Museum visits, Rothe will discuss the literature and art that was created in Paris at the turn of the century, as well as bring in other contemporary Paris ‘art world’ informative sessions and lead the aritsts to famed painting locations in Paris. A historical lecture by Dominque Sennelier 3rd generation chemist and art supplier of Sennelier colors in Paris since 1887, will teach about the history of art tools and materials and the group will meet and paint at “LA GRANDE CHAUMIERE”, a famous studio near the Luxembourg Gardens where such greats as Picasso, Cezanne and Modigliani met and painted together.

There will be 2 separate locations and dates for the exhibitions: LCAD and Salmagundi Club

Laguna College of Art and Design
Address: 2222 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, California 92651
Dates: April 01 – April 14, 2016
Reception: April 8, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Demo with Adrian Gottlieb, Kate Sammons and Sean Forrester: April 8th, 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Humanities and Group Figure Composition Workshop: April 9th, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

SALMAGUNDI CLUB

Address: 47 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003
Dates: April 28th and 29th, 2016 a
Reception: April 28, 6:30-9 p.m.
An introduction of the Paris Seminar at 6pm followed by the opening and unveiling of the works 6:30-9 with ongoing discussions in the famous Samagundi club art library. Additional demos the 29th of April in the evening by Michelle Dunaway and Michael Klein and presentations by Sean Forester, Vanessa Rothe and Alan Lawson.

Keep on truckin.