"Local Artist just goes with the flow"
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"Starry
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Monty Whitfield, won Second Place, in Acrylics, at Manchester’s/N.H. outdoor art show, “Arts in the Park”.
“Starry Eyed Angel”, is the latest Print Available, at MONTY’S STORE. |
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THE
LOWELL SUN
Nashua's Chimera Gallery exhibits the 'Magnificent
Obsessions' of artists'
By NANCYE TUTTLE
...Finally, Monty Whitfield's vivid nature
paintings are created to "slow a fast-paced
planet and for one instant, allow the viewer
to reunite with the grandeur of the natural
world. " His zest for life shows in
his work, which tends to glow and resonate
with deep color and the metallic glazes
he applies in many layers....
DATE: June 29, 2006
Copyright Lowell Sun
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"Golden
Eagle"
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Monty
Whitfield's painting, "Golden Eagle",
is in the permanent collection of
Nashua City Hall
DATE:
December 5, 2005
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Leader Corp.
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Artist's
'Golden Eagle' mission accomplished
By SON HOANG Union Leader Correspondent
NASHUA-Local artist Monty Whitfield's painting
of an eagle atop City Hall is a work nearly
18 years in the making.
Upon arriving in Nashua in 1987, Whitfield
made a promise to himself that he would one
day paint the eagle, and earlier this year,
he did. He will present the completed painting,
"Golden Eagle," to the city at the
Dec. 13 Board of Aldermen meeting.
"When I arrived in Nashua I was walking
on Main Street and the first thing I saw was
City Hall," Whitfield said. "The
golden eagle with the sun behind it just looked
beautiful." Whitfield said it took him
so long to paint the eagle because he needed
time for his style to mature. "It just
wasn't the time. Back then I was working with
watercolors. That medium didn't lend itself,"
Whitfield said. "It was always in the
back of my mind and I finally said, 'That's
it,' when I came up with the style I have
now."
A graduate of Durer School of Art in Manila,
Philippines, Whitfield's style is impressionistic
realism. His paintings mix impressionistic
backgrounds with realistic foreground objects.
His signature look is to use a series of glazes
to give a highlighted object in his painting
a metallic look. "Golden Eagle,"
a 30- by 40-inch painting that took Whitfield
three weeks to complete, depicts the eagle
on top of City Hall at sunrise and has already
spent one month on display in the mayor's
office. "The folks in City Hall fell
in love with it," Whitfield said. Prints
of "Golden Eagle," along with certificates
of authenticity, will be given out at the
presentation during the Board of Alderman
meeting on Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Whitfield has other works on display at the
New England Craftsmen Association in Wolfeboro
and at the Gallery One at the Millhouse and
the Amethyst Wyldfyre Gallery, both in Nashua.
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HIPPO
Arts:
How Monty got his groove
Nashua painter presents painting to Nashua
By
JOHN "jaQ" ANDREWS
Monty Whitfield finds his style and he couldn't
be happier. "I'm all about color,"
he said. "Luminosity and the colors
that bounce back at you are very important
to me."
His newfound style emerged in 2004, when
he moved away from watercolors and began
painting exclusively with acrylics. It began
with a painting called "Impressions
of a Sun Goddess"--a realistic, if
somewhat cartoonish, bikini-clad woman on
an impressionistic background of ocean and
sky.
"This took me two weeks," Whitfield
said. 'That's cranking for me." He
needed the painting for the 2004 Greeley
Park Art Show.... Constructing the background
out of colored dots, reminiscent of Monet,
and the foreground in fully blended tones
made his subject nearly leap off the canvas.
Whitfield calls this combo "impressionistic
realism." To this technique he added
a dark border and gold frame to create his
signiture look.
Whitfield knows the value of instant recognizability.
He comes from a sales and marketing background,
and once his look was established, he started
getting attention. He furthur refined his
technique in a painting of Nashua's City
Hall, titled "Golden Eagle." He'd
wanted to paint the ornament on top of the
building since he arrived in the city in
1987. Whitfield presented the painting to
the Mayor and Alderman this week for permanent
exhibition.... In addition to the Greeley
Park Art Show in both 2004 and 2005, Whitfield
exhibited at the "Arts in the Park"
Show at Manchester's Veterans Park both
years. In 2005, his painting "Primordial
Forest," which depicts a glimmering,
giant dragonfly among ancient trees, won
First Place in the Acrylics category at
that show. The dragonfly itself was built
from between 10 and 20 layers of glaze.
In the background are hundreds of dashes
and dots that blend together to create gradations
of color.
Whitfield plans to make a series of four
landscape paintings in the theme of "Primordial
Forest;" the first shows a monarch
butterfly ("The Monarch's Pyramid")
against a backdrop of a Mayan pyramid. Two
more will show a grasshopper and lunar moth
in similar settings. "I love ancient
civilizations and I love moods in paintings,"
he said. Whitfield studied at the Durer
School of Art in Manila, Philippines, and
his influences include Albrecht Durer as
well as Monet and Jamie Wyeth. He is a memmber
of the Nashua Area Artist's Association(NAAA),
the Manchester Artist's Association(MAA)
and the Arts League of Lowell(ALL). |
"The
Monarch's Pyramid"
DATE:
December 15, 2005
Reprint Permission
Obtained from The Hippo/Manchester/
Nashua/Concord
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Monty Whitfield,
won First Place in Acrylics, at the Outdoor
Art Show
"Arts in the Park", Manchester,
NH.
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